Post by itiswritten on Feb 23, 2011 0:30:48 GMT -5
There are myriads of arguments one how God is more than one. I personally am quite satisfied with the STRONG POINT GOD made "Besides me there is no other" God created man, before then there was on other gods, man after the fall, created many images to call god.
Like the man created "god of this world" meaning satan, if God had created satan to be god of this world, IMHO, he God would have told us somewhere in Torah he was creating a new god. But, no he does not.
Yes there are the plural words and such and the mind of man is going to search for a loophole in the word of God, like you stated we as mortals should not attempt to define God to our liking.
Accept the God that created all that is in the universe, as he described himself. No addition nor subtraction.
Shalom
It is important in a search for truth to not confuse two issues. There being One God is a different discussion than the makeup or components of that One God. Words mean things. If we are to come to a proper Biblical understanding of anything it is important to look at all evidence and look at the meaning of words and the ways that they are used. The fact that Elohim is plural or that Panim as in (bread of the faces}, the table of showbread is not irrelevent. Those words are used for a reason and have actual real meanings.
Echad also has real meanings and uses. Echad is used numerically as single as in "the waters were all gathered into "one" place."
Echad is also used to mean a composite unity as in Adam and his wife became "one" (echad) flesh. As I discussed in the teaching I referred to, a human is comprised of around 50 trillion individual cells yet makes up one person.
Truth is comprised of all of the evidence. The parts will like, the parts we don't, the parts that don't make sense, and the parts we don't even know about. Like the word for truth (emet). It is comprised of the aleph, mem and tav. The first and last letters and the center letter when all of the hebrew forms are used. If we leave out something in the equation like the aleph for example, we end up with met which is death.
Therefore when discussing the nature of God or any other Biblical issue, we can't just arbitrarily start throwing out scriptures that don't seem to fit. We also have to go back to the Hebrew words and see how they are used in various places. When our only agenda is truth, regardless of how that turns out, all evidence is considered regardless of what way it points or doesn't.
I totally agree with you on what you said regarding "no additions, nor subtractions. "The truth will be whatever it is.