I’ve always wondered why academics who study comparative religion don’t write books on this subject. They are paid to study so can comfortably spend decades at it. They have the best access to the most resources so could do a most thorough and honest job. If they didn’t want to get drummed out of the profession, they could quietly include the research in their regular study over the years and write the books after they retired. And there’s more money in writing such books. Comparative religion needs its own Robert Schoch.
Yes, Elohim is a plural noun. It first appears in Genesis.
‘In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.’ The plurality is later reflected in other language: ‘Let us make man in our image’ — and, no, this is not the ‘royal we’. But later, ‘And Elohim created man in His own image, in the image of Elohim created He him; male and female created He them’, the plural creator is described as a singular being and we see the singular verb form used for ‘created’ (and, interestingly, humanity is also referred to in both the singular and plural).
That the word is plural shouldn’t be too surprising. Why otherwise the core Hebrew expression of faith, ‘The LORD our God, the LORD is one’? Echad, the word translated as ‘one’ conveys unity more so than singularity, and the Old & New Testaments are replete with content that reinforces this quality of the biblical Creator and differentiate Him or whatever pronoun you want to use from Islam’s monolithic concept of Allah. Despite what some believe, the idea behind the Trinity is woven throughout the Old & New Testaments, not some tacked-on doctrinal appendage.
In the above expression, the ‘Shema’, the word translated as ‘the Lord’ is the Tetragrammaton, a word whose pronunciation has been lost to time, and a name which basically means ‘I AM’ or, more metaphysically, ‘Self-Existent’, and also occurs together with Elohim as a title, typically translated in English bibles as the LORD God though one might argue it’s more accurately ‘I AM (the One that is) Elohim’ or ‘I am the self-existent Godhead’.
A further example of this plurality is found in Revelation and elsewhere which speaks of the 7 spirits of God, a further challenge to those wrestling with the ‘God in three persons’ of the Trinity.
I like how this guy touches on things in the Old Testament that hint at intriguing realities, but his extrapolations stated as fact, not so much. He ascribes human origins to his take on Elohim, essentially as a plurality of celestials with different agendas, but gives them no credit for the origin of the universe and the identity of its creator though that’s where this language first appears.
As he mentions, the word is also used in the phrase Bene Elohim — the Sons of God — a hebraism used to refer to angels or celestial beings. IMO, that’s about as close as he gets to accuracy, in his proximity to Nephilim lore that’s echoed in other writings and myth, and maybe archaeology, all over the earth, a topic I also think is relevant to current events.
Despite his claim, I don’t know of anything in the Bible where Abraham is asked why he left Ur of the Chaldees? Nor anything that mentions the powers going to war over disagreements regarding plans for humanity that doesn’t heavily rely on compounding his Elohim angle. Basically, I think this guy’s taken a word that glitches our ‘How can one be many?’ limited dimensional ability to conceptualise and thrown some ‘Could this be…?’/In Search Of angles voiced as fact and spun a franchise out of it.
Achtung: His 1 Kings 22 reference seems applicable, in its deeper implications, to his message, which aligns with what I’ve long surmised might one day manifest — a deceptive razzle-dazzle return of the old gods. Buyer beware.
Oh, I looked up Quetzelcoatl but found nothing about the vapor thing he mentioned. Anyone got anything more on that?
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I’ve always wondered why academics who study comparative religion don’t write books on this subject. They are paid to study so can comfortably spend decades at it. They have the best access to the most resources so could do a most thorough and honest job. If they didn’t want to get drummed out of the profession, they could quietly include the research in their regular study over the years and write the books after they retired. And there’s more money in writing such books. Comparative religion needs its own Robert Schoch.
Here’s my take.
Yes, Elohim is a plural noun. It first appears in Genesis.
‘In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth.’ The plurality is later reflected in other language: ‘Let us make man in our image’ — and, no, this is not the ‘royal we’. But later, ‘And Elohim created man in His own image, in the image of Elohim created He him; male and female created He them’, the plural creator is described as a singular being and we see the singular verb form used for ‘created’ (and, interestingly, humanity is also referred to in both the singular and plural).
That the word is plural shouldn’t be too surprising. Why otherwise the core Hebrew expression of faith, ‘The LORD our God, the LORD is one’? Echad, the word translated as ‘one’ conveys unity more so than singularity, and the Old & New Testaments are replete with content that reinforces this quality of the biblical Creator and differentiate Him or whatever pronoun you want to use from Islam’s monolithic concept of Allah. Despite what some believe, the idea behind the Trinity is woven throughout the Old & New Testaments, not some tacked-on doctrinal appendage.
In the above expression, the ‘Shema’, the word translated as ‘the Lord’ is the Tetragrammaton, a word whose pronunciation has been lost to time, and a name which basically means ‘I AM’ or, more metaphysically, ‘Self-Existent’, and also occurs together with Elohim as a title, typically translated in English bibles as the LORD God though one might argue it’s more accurately ‘I AM (the One that is) Elohim’ or ‘I am the self-existent Godhead’.
A further example of this plurality is found in Revelation and elsewhere which speaks of the 7 spirits of God, a further challenge to those wrestling with the ‘God in three persons’ of the Trinity.
I like how this guy touches on things in the Old Testament that hint at intriguing realities, but his extrapolations stated as fact, not so much. He ascribes human origins to his take on Elohim, essentially as a plurality of celestials with different agendas, but gives them no credit for the origin of the universe and the identity of its creator though that’s where this language first appears.
As he mentions, the word is also used in the phrase Bene Elohim — the Sons of God — a hebraism used to refer to angels or celestial beings. IMO, that’s about as close as he gets to accuracy, in his proximity to Nephilim lore that’s echoed in other writings and myth, and maybe archaeology, all over the earth, a topic I also think is relevant to current events.
Despite his claim, I don’t know of anything in the Bible where Abraham is asked why he left Ur of the Chaldees? Nor anything that mentions the powers going to war over disagreements regarding plans for humanity that doesn’t heavily rely on compounding his Elohim angle. Basically, I think this guy’s taken a word that glitches our ‘How can one be many?’ limited dimensional ability to conceptualise and thrown some ‘Could this be…?’/In Search Of angles voiced as fact and spun a franchise out of it.
Achtung: His 1 Kings 22 reference seems applicable, in its deeper implications, to his message, which aligns with what I’ve long surmised might one day manifest — a deceptive razzle-dazzle return of the old gods. Buyer beware.
Oh, I looked up Quetzelcoatl but found nothing about the vapor thing he mentioned. Anyone got anything more on that?