Genesis 1:2 Elohim = One Person

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Genesis 1:2 Elohim = One Person Jul 13, 2013 7:53:10 GMT -5

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Post by ResLight on Jul 13, 2013 7:53:10 GMT -5

Transferred from a Facebook post in response to one who claimed that ELOHIM in Genesis 1:2 speaks of two persons:

Actually, in Genesis 1:2, ELOHIM represents only one person, and "spirit" belongs to that one person. Isaiah 61:1 identifies that person as one person, the Lord Yahweh (Jehovah), who is distinguished from His spirit and also from the one whom he anointed. That one person, of whom are the all, is identified in the NT as the Father of Jesus from whom Jesus obtains the Holy Spirit. -- Matthew 10:20; Luke 11:13; John 15:26; Acts 2:33; Romans 8:11

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Genesis 1:2 Elohim = One Person Jul 13, 2013 9:38:31 GMT -5

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Post by ResLight on Jul 13, 2013 9:38:31 GMT -5

Transferred from Facebook in reply to one who claims that God is three persons as the bride of Christ is a single entity consisting of many persons.

The Bride of Christ is not one sentient being, but is made up of many sentient beings. The trinity dogma proclaims the the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit are all one ominscient being, thus, all one sentient being. One cannot say that any one individual of bride of Christ is "fullly" or "wholly" the bride of Christ, as is claimed for the alleged triune God.

One could say that Jesus and his God and the Holy Spirit are one entity as in one association; this would not make them all the one true God, nor would it make Jesus the same sentient being as his God and Father. One person in such an association is not fully the entity, but only represents a part of such an association.

In a corporation, one might find various officers all who are working in harmony to accomplish the goals of the corporation. No one office of the corporation is fully the entity, but each are members of the entity.

There is certainly nothing in the harmony that God has over his spirit and the obeidience of His Son that would mean that ELOHIM in Genesis 1:2, or anywhere else that it is applied to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, means more than one person in one God. The plurality of ELOHIM is gods, not persons in one God.

See my studies related to ELOHIM:

jesus.rlbible.com/?page_id=3978

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Genesis 1:2 Elohim = One Person Jul 13, 2013 9:42:37 GMT -5

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Post by ResLight on Jul 13, 2013 9:42:37 GMT -5

Transferred from Facebook in reply to one who claims that God is more than one person just as a man and his wife become "one flesh" (two person who are one flesh):

Genesis 2:24 – Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Since a man and his wife are of the same fleshly substance before they are married, the expression "one flesh" in Genesis 2:24 cannot be referring to the same "substance", but rather it is using the expression "one flesh" to denote the unity of the marriage bond. It certainly does not mean a man and his wife become one sentient being, as is claimed by the trinity dogma by its claim that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all three one ominscient being.

The unity involved in marriage, if divided equally, still would be 1/2 + 1/2 = the whole. The marriage still consists to two separate parts that equal the whole. One cannot say the husband is fully the one flesh of the marriage bond, nor can one say that the wife is fully the one flesh of the marriage bond.

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