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    THE COSMIC CONFLICT! Who The "us" Really Were In Gen. 1:26 "And God said let us make man in our image"! Make sure read all.

    The Hebrew word translated "God" is Elohim (H430); which is also translated "gods" throughout the Hebrew canon (Ex.12:12,18:11), this is because Elohim is a plural noun. But always in all scripture, when Elohim is used for the God of Israel, it is used in a grammatical singular sense, because it...
  2. Quid est Veritas?

    Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser

    I was asked, by another poster, my opinion on this book; and having finally gotten around to reading it, I have some thoughts: Firstly, I would just state clearly that I do not understand Hebrew. A lot of his arguments rest squarely on Hebrew readings and tenses that I have no way of verifying...
  3. the old scribe

    Gender of biblical language words used for divinity

    Does any one actually believe YHWH is one gender or the other? Elohim used in Genesis is a plural (strike out feminine - old scribe's error) masculine noun. The Hebrew, Greek, or English word for father uses the word figuratively. In the biological sense of the meaning of YHWH is not "our...
  4. Hoshiyya

    EL and BAAL: The Father and the "Dying God"

    Daniel 8 relates a vision of a ram and a goat. A ram (male sheep) first appears from the east, then a goat "with a notable horn" appears, attacking the ram. While they are both clean animals, the sheep is an animal Yeshua compares himself to, while the goat is in certain passages used as a...