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  • used name for God in the Bible is Elohim, usually translated as "God ... #Elohim #Adonai #Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh #Shaddai #Sabaoth ==Biblical names ...
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  • In the English Bible, the derivative name Elohim is normally translated as ... Asherah, and the parent of many other gods. Canaanite mythology about ...
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  • In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ... In the beginning, the kindly but distant El, the father of the gods ...
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  • of humankind as the servants of the gods. One of its primary purposes ... of the early battles of the Olympian gods and Titans, and Canaanite ...
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  • Elohim is the generic term for God in the Hebrew Bible, translated ... In this sentence three names of God are used: Elohim (God), YHWH ...
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  • details the mythology of several Canaanite gods and provides previously unknown ... temples: one to Baal the "king of the gods," and one to Dagon, the ...
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  • the calf statue at Bethel—"Here is Elohim, O Israel"—was originally ... Moreover, his statement "this is elohim, O Israel, who brought you ...
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  • (בני האלהים “b’nei ha-'elohim” Lit. "Sons of the ... The Sumerians called their gods the Anunaki. Abraham was the son of ...
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  • death, as is the offering of sacrifices to gods other than Yahweh. ... bull-calf, proclaiming "Here is God,(elohim) who brought you out of Egypt ...
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  • mother was Venus. The concepts of demi-gods, sons and daughters of a god ... Thus, human (or part-human) offspring of gods were known in non-Christian ...
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  • foreign wives. Specifically named are the gods Molech of Ammon, and Chemosh ... His reported statement, "Here is elohim, O Israel," nearly certainly ...
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  • for God, while the other uses the word Elohim. The theory of parallel accounts ... was afterwards granted immortality by the gods. Utnapishtim's account ...
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  • teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... of a creator god or a group of creator gods as original agent(s) of action ...
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  • In Psalm 82, God sits in judgment upon the "gods" or "sons ... In the Book of Job, the "sons of God" (bne Elohim) appear ...
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  • the stars, the moon and the sun could be gods. But since these all disappeared ... God's name in some passages and El, Elohim, El-Shaddai, etc. in others ...
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  • than the more ancient idea of an assembly of the gods with Yahweh/Elohim as the supreme deity *The idea of absolute monotheism, as opposed to ...
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  • (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God. The word Allah ... worshiped Allah alongside a host of lesser gods and those whom they called ...
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  • that the idol represented the god(s) (Elohim) who had brought them out of Egypt (Elohim may be translated as either "God"—as "in ...
    40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
  • that there is only one God and not three Gods? The doctrine, following Tertullian ... supporting the Trinity. It calls God "Elohim," which is a plural ...
    42 KB (6,496 words) - 17:40, 2 May 2023
  • (the LORD)" and "Spirit of Elohim (God)" is called in ... triadic formula of teaching "three gods" instead of one. In order ...
    27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024

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