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To: sirchtruth
Look up whatever you want. I have been here just watching TV and checking messages.

I am going to take off here for a while though.

Again, as far as I know, Elohim literally means "God" but doesn't make specific reference to The Father.

125 posted on 12/25/2003 2:41:00 PM PST by maui_hawaii
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To: maui_hawaii
Again, as far as I know, Elohim literally means "God" but doesn't make specific reference to The Father

When you read this bible, the english never does justice to the hebrew..."im" is a plural, but is a singular too...it is unique to hebrew and I'm not even sure if another word like it exist in a singular/dual meaning. It's like writing a sentence like this:I's is/are going to the store.

So you can't claim Jesus created and God didn't...when it's referring to both. (or all three)BUT the word is singular just as much it is plural.

Justify how the use of that word is Jesus alone doing the creating when "El" means God the father?

Immanu"el" - God with us.

"El" means God, the father. So if you take Genesis 1:1 It really reads like this in english:

In the beginning God's' (possesive and plural and singular) created heaven and earth...

You can dispute the meaning of the english, but you can not do that to this word in hebrew, it is unique and not used in any other context.

Now you have a dilema, because you believe that God and Jesus are not equal, but this unique word makes them no matter how you slice it in the hebrew.

Who purchased the church with his own blood?
Acts 20:28

129 posted on 12/25/2003 3:17:37 PM PST by sirchtruth
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