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To: zimdog

1) No I'm claiming when Abraham and others were using the words "el, elohim, eloah, etc..." they were using generic names that refered to deity. I've already given the example of the Hindu and Christian thanking "God" both may use the word "God" but they are referring to totally different beings.

2) Yes my bad "Yahweh" does not mean "Lord", I was confusing it with the word "Adonai".

3) So by your definition : Odin, Zeus, Krishna, Brahman, are written forms used to refer to God. But these Gods are not Yahweh and that's my whole point.


105 posted on 12/04/2006 5:44:21 PM PST by John Philoponus
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To: John Philoponus
No I'm claiming when Abraham and others were using the words "el, elohim, eloah, etc..." they were using generic names that refered to deity.

So they weren't praying to the God of Moses?

2) Yes my bad "Yahweh" does not mean "Lord", I was confusing it with the word "Adonai".

So the Syriac "translation" argument crumbles.

So by your definition : Odin, Zeus, Krishna, Brahman, are written forms used to refer to God.

No, Odin, Zeus, Krishna, etc. are understood as being members of different pantheons. They are not God as understood by Jews, Samaritans, Christians, Muslims and Baha'i. They are not the sole and universal God.

But these Gods are not Yahweh and that's my whole point.

So you're a pantheist who believes that there are many gods. This contradicts the basic tenet of monotheism: that there is only one God.

107 posted on 12/04/2006 6:04:33 PM PST by zimdog
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