TRIUNITY

ELOHIM

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Genesis [MKJV] 1:1-4, 26-27 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided between the light and the darkness. … And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him.

  It doesn’t take but a bit of study and cross-referencing to discover that “God” in Genesis 1:1 and connected events is not describing singular personage, but plurality of Supreme Being.

  Consider 1:26, in the phrase “Let Us make man”. (MKJV correctly capitalizes “us”.) “Us” not depicting our Creator as soloist, but plural in tri-unity.

  Another notable point is that “Elohim” is the first name in Scripture for God. In the creation account; Elohim being Hebrew describing magistrates active in ministration; here in creation. (This is not to say that elsewhere in Scripture when other names are used for God that He is not Elohim,)

  Elohim, Creator: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit live in absolute harmony and fellowship, doing so for eternity making opportunity for discordant us, prey to and principally insistent on measuring life in time instead of perpetuity.

  Knowing this truth can and should make a difference in our life. Will we let it? 

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