Sunday, July 1, 2012

Why does the bible describes God as plural?

Just as you said, God is described as Elohim in many places in hebrew bible. It is common knowledge that God is one, bit in the term "Elohim" completely dsfies this common sense, because Elohim has a plural meaning. Some people insist that the word "Elohim" is used in the bible to express the fullness of God's divinity and power or to depict the Triune God, but it is a mere guess that comes from a misunderstanding of the Bible, Now let's find out what the exact of the word "Elohim"is and why the bible describes God as Elohim.
"Elohim" is the mystery of the bible.
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The term "Elohim" has caused a lot of controversy among the biblicists and linguists. Chrisitians believe that there is only one God.but the hebrew bible refers to God as "Elohim" using the plural pronouns "we""us" and "our" so even the scholar, who have studied the bible for a long time, do not understand the meaning of the word clearly and they just consider it a mystery.

Let us make man in "our" image.
Ge 1:26 God said :Let us make man in our image in our likeness
Why does the bible describe God as us? We can know the reason when see what man, created in God's image,look like
Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God ,he created him: male, and female he created them.
Man was made in the image of god, and male and female were creatde this iss proof that there are two God's the male image of God and the female image of God

1 comment:

  1. Bible testify that God as plural.Though God's image we were created.

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