I'm re-posting some Facebook Blogging I did on the Theological Development of the Trinity. Since then, I've learned some cool new stuff which I will add into the presentation so stay tuned.
Elohim (another name for God in the OT)
For Trinitarians like myself this name is the first hint of the Trinity we get in the Bible. We might actually call it the seed form of the dogma. The word is a generic form of God but it has a plural ending.
While being a piece of evidence for the Trinity it is not enough. Early Jews never understood it as implying something like the Trinity, and there exists multiple other reasons why even Christian Trinitarian scholars suggest why it exists.
1) It's a remnant of older words in Akkadian that are used for older polytheistic religions.
2) It is a "Plural of Majesty" (Like the Royal We in British English), other Semitic languages are known to strengthen an important root word, by adding letters etc. to reinforce it. Allah in Arabic is the word Alah (God) in Aramaic that had an extra letter put in the stem to make it stronger to emphasize its importance.
Besides this it should be noted, In the OT, God is also known as "The Lord of Hosts" (Angels) etc. So yet another reason for a Plural of Majesty.
