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sl33w Member (Idle past 5758 days) Posts: 53 Joined: |
"Do you have any links to that?"
Meaning Matthew Henry translated "plural Gods" (MYHLA) in Genesis 1.1. MH Commentary, volume 1, page 1. Robert Jaimeson Commentary, volume 1, page 2. James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, 1895, Hebrew word #430. John R. Kohlenberger III's Preface to Interlinear Old Testament; he wrote, "I know that "elohim" is plural gods, but becauuse it is recorded so many times, and we know it refers to one God, I will translate it God." sl33w
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Force Inactive Member |
sl33w,
I have used the blue letter bible online for a long time and in the past I seem to remember that the hebrew word "elohim" can be used to mean both god and gods depending on the context of the writing. I will check into your references. Edited by Force, : No reason given. Thanks To believe in "Force" is to believe in Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Force, Agility, and Charm.
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IamJoseph Member (Idle past 3693 days) Posts: 2822 Joined: |
Incorrect. Its not plural but 'plentyful' [all-incompassing; great; unlimited]. The OT is an intergrated document, and any definition must also allign with all other sectors comprehensively, not selectively. The notion of 'NO GODS BEFORE ME' thus refers only to the perspective of man and the practise of polytheism.
Grammatically, its like saying, 'your flat earths' beliefs are not correct. Edited by IamJoseph, : No reason given.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 637 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
of course, when it comes to the following verb in Genesis 1.1, the verb is in singular format, which means elohim is 'magnified' in importance.
There are other 'singular' people that were called elohim. Such as Moses. It doesn't mean there was more than one moses, but the importance of Moses was magnfied
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Force Inactive Member |
IAJ,
incorrect. Thanks To believe in "Force" is to believe in Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Force, Agility, and Charm.
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IamJoseph Member (Idle past 3693 days) Posts: 2822 Joined: |
quote: Incorrect. The changes in today's european bibles are post-dead sea scrolls; no changes are seen in the hebrew for 2300 years - while changes are seen post-NT. There is clear motivation for the changes made in the NT.
quote: Correction. The text itself says so, namely the 3rd commandment from Sinai ['NOT TO MENTION THE NAME IN VAIN' - namely not in vows or even casually] quote: Any changes occured with the NT, then the Quran. The term HKVH is made up by christians. This was an abbreviation in the hebrew OT of an entire sentence, and was actually phonationally-spelled by christians. Eg: the abbreviation, FBI, was pronounced phonetically, as 'fbi' - it has no real meaning.
quote: The term christos is greek for savior/redeemer [mochiach/heb], made when the greeks translated the hebrew bible in 300 BCE. The term christ/christos was not applied to christianity till 174 CE, same as the term christian did not occur before that date. Not a single hebrew word in the OT has ever been changed - it cannot be changed because a red signal pops up: the hebrew letters are also numerals, and thus each verse, sentence and book has a numerical ratio. We know that the scrolls represent no changes for 2300 years - thus any changes are post this date.
quote: Israel is in the feminine [the text], which occurs in the same verse where Jacob's name was changed following a covenant - signifying a union or marraige with a contract. This has no relationship with the NT or any notion of a trinity.
quote: Motivation: if Mathew did not alter the meaning - there could not be christianity; a trinity and the OT are mutually exclusive, and the reason for the split between these two religions. This is a fact, not an opinion.
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IamJoseph Member (Idle past 3693 days) Posts: 2822 Joined: |
Then you have a different understanding of Monotheism, and read the OT texts with a belated, retrospective conclusion. FYI, there is historical precedence to the NT adaptation. Following Alexander's sudden death [assassination], the hellenist priests proposed an amalgamation of hellenism and judaism, in about 250 BCE - because the OT laws were proving more logical to the intelligence greek philosophers, and thereby causing a diminishing of the hellenist preisthood. This syndrome is also represented with the preists in ancient Egypt - which influenced the death of the first born hebrew males when the Pharoah was eliminated and 'A NEW KING AROSE WHO KNEW NOT JOSEPH AND HIS PEOPLE' [Gen].
This otherwise sublime premise of making Judaism a universal belief system fell away when the demand also included the statues of Zeus and the God of Israel be melted down and made into one new diety. The Jews rejected this, and the greeks never forgave them - culminating in the Hanuka wars; greek instigation of laws of heresy when Greece became embedded with Rome; and then the creation of christianity - a greek enterprise, mirroring all hellenist beliefs - incuding the trinity, 25th december as the SUN worship day; a son [Mithrais]saving the world; etc. The greek/hellenist influence in Rome culminated in Mighty Rome's greatest war, and the destruction of jerusalem in 70 CE. Here, the west got christianity - while the jews never surrendered to Rome. The rest is history - or contrived history. Christianity and islam arose via force - 99% of all christians and muslims resulted by their ancesters ebforced to convert via the rake and the sword.
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Force Inactive Member |
IAJ,
whether or not you're politically correct in that last post "52" is irrelevant because the entire post "52" is irrelevant to this thread. Edited by Force, : edit Thanks To believe in "Force" is to believe in Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Force, Agility, and Charm.
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Force Inactive Member |
IAJ,
sl33w in response to Force writes: In 1706, Matthew Henry translated "plural Gods" correctly in his commentary on Genesis. IAJ in response to sl33w writes: Motivation: if Mathew did not alter the meaning - there could not be christianity You're an idiot. What about the catholic church forming way before 1706. You're an idiot. What about the reformations in the 1500s. You're an idiot! Whether or not the name is plural has nothing to do with Christianity. Do not respond as you're an IDIOT. Edited by Force, : edit Thanks To believe in "Force" is to believe in Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Force, Agility, and Charm.
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
While whether or not IamJoseph is an idiot may be subject to debate, it is not to be a debate at . Please (under threat of suspension) refrain from including such in your messages.
All: Review the beginnings of this topic and try to have any future messages relate to the topic theme as there defined. Adminnemooseus
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IamJoseph Member (Idle past 3693 days) Posts: 2822 Joined: |
quote: What's that got to do with it - and when has the catholic church been right about anything, never mind about the OT - your source of an evidential source is quite astounding! You should better stick to textual conclusion - PLURAL and GOD do not go hand in hand in the OT.
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IamJoseph Member (Idle past 3693 days) Posts: 2822 Joined: |
quote: Except it responded to the bizarre claim of 'PLURAL' in the world's first monotheist document. Duh! Edited by IamJoseph, : No reason given.
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
Regardless of on-topic/off-topic considerations, both Force's and IamJoseph's messages often seem to leave a lot to be desired.
Both of you - Let's bring the quality level up. No replies to this message. Adminnemooseus
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IamJoseph Member (Idle past 3693 days) Posts: 2822 Joined: |
quote: What's your point? Everything comes from other sources - including said divine inspirational writings. The vital factor is what is being said, it is historically vindicated, and does it stand up to today's knowledge and to the factor of truth. While there is hardly any verification of most bibles and scriptures of their origins, I found no negating factors of the OT. IOW, there is no contradictory, contemporary writings of disputation - which is not the case with the NT and Quran. Better than where it comes from, is what is its value. Even Einstein applied other sources - yet his writings were profound.
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Force Inactive Member |
IAJ,
you're so confused you should just quit. Thanks To believe in "Force" is to believe in Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Force, Agility, and Charm.
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