(August 11, 2010 at 12:52 pm)theophilus Wrote:(August 11, 2010 at 12:48 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: That seems odd to me since god was referred to as such long before the apparent birth of Jesus if god doesn't exist without all three members of the trinity.The Hebrew word for God is Elohim. In Hebrew the "im" is used at the end of a word to signify that it is plural. God often uses the plural in speaking about himself. "Let us make man in our image."
But Elohim does not mean just Yahweh but also Baal and the other gods that were around at the time.
Wikipedia does not have the meaning for elohim that you give it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim
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