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I agree with your last line. Elohiym is the one of great strength and authority.
That person with great strength and authority is God (El) and a council with many that have great strength and authority is Elohim. Elohim over the years has been translated into judges, and even angels. God even told Moses that he would be Elohim to his people. So it is an interesting word that diminishes not the idea of a 'council of the Gods' (including El's Father) that were involved in the spirit creation of the earth and all that are on the earth. Elohim is the first God(s) mentioned in the bible.
Since God the Father and God the Son and God the HS are 3 distinct Persons, which 2 are jettisoned from the Holy Trinity because the bible says "there is no God beside me", "I know no other God", "there has been no other God created".....
Tell me which of the 3 Persons will you get rid of.
Mormons take the position that the 3 are so unified in a perfect purpose that they all 3 can make a statement like there is no other God beside me. Even though there really is 2 other Persons in the Godhead, they are so 1 in perfect unity, it is if they are 1 God. They all can say there is no God beside me.
When They speak, there is no other God beside them, because they speak with absolute power and authority, and what they speak is exatly what the other 2 would say and do. So there are 3, but it is as if they are 1.
All those scriptures that you quoted are exactly correct. I believe them.
These are not my ideas--that comes from a Jewish scholar and that is what Jewish scholar have always taught. This is not a matter of "Elohim over the years has been translated into judges, and even angels." There is no getting rid of the Father, Son, nor the Holy Spirit---they are one. And there was "BEFORE ME THERE WAS NO OTHER GOD FORMED"--The Father had no Father!!!
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