Eloheim, and the bible? Protestant and Evangelical.?

Question

So Eloheim can mean generally two things (as far as the bible is concerned):
1. Supreme God
2. Being the Plural of El (meaning more than one god)

Do both these not conotate many Gods? "Supreme" makes the assumption that he is better than others.

supreme - of authority or an office, or someone holding it superior to all others.

Modern Protestant and Evangelical Christianity hold to the idea that Jesus IS God in the Flesh. Thus "Out of the flesh" Jesus would be god... Singular, Jesus being somewhat his earthly title.

So when the bible speaks of other Gods, Who is it refering to?

Answer 1

The bible speaks of

The only true God Jehovah. (John 17:3)

False gods: Zeus, Satan, Baal, etc

and those called gods. Moses, Israel judges and Jesus (Ex 7:1, Ps 82:6, John 1:1, 10:30-34)

When the bible refers to Moses, judges and Jesus as gods, it is referencing their assignments given by Jehovah to speak for Him, to the authority to judge others in his Name.

None of these "other" gods are to be worshiped and did not want to be worshiped

Whereas false gods, desire to be worshiped.

Answer 2

"...I will show from the Hebrew Bible that I am correct, and the first word shows a plurality of Gods; and I want the apostates and learned men to come here and prove to the contrary, if they can. And unlearned boy must give you a little Hebrew. Berosheit baurau Eloheim ait aushamayeen vehau auraits, rendered by King James' translators, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." I want to analyze the word Berosheit. Rosh, the head; Sheit, a grammatical termination; the Baith was not originally put there when the inspired man wrote it, but it has been since added by an old Jew. Baurau signifies to bring forth; Eloheim is from the word Eloi, God, in the singular number; and by adding the word heim, it renders it Gods. It read first, "In the beginning the head of the Gods brought forth the Gods," or, as others have translated it, "The head of the Gods called the Gods together." I want to show a little learning as well as other fools. The head God organized the heavens and the earth. I defy all the world to refute me. In the beginning, the heads of the Gods organized the heavens and the earth. Now the learned priests and the people rage, and the heathen imagine a vain thing. If we pursue the Hebrew text further, it reads, "The head one of the Gods said, Let us make a man in our own image." I once asked a learned Jew, "If the Hebrew language compels us to render all words ending in heim in the plural, why not render the first Eloheim plural?" He replied, "That is the rule with few exceptions; but in this case it would ruin the Bible." He acknowledged, I was right. I came here to investigate these things precisely as I believed them. Herar and judge for yourselves; and if you go away satisfied, well and good...."

"... Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only one God I say that is a strange God anyhow---three in one, and one in three! It is a curious organization. "Father, I pray not for the world, but I pray for them which thou hast given me." "Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are." All are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big God --- He would be a giant or a monster. I want to read the text to you myself---"I am agreed with the Father and the Father is agreed with me, and we are agreed as one." The Greek shows that it should be agreed.

Answer 3

There are lots of other man-made gods in the Bible.
Obviously they're all false.
Elijah put one to test in 1Kings 8:22-40.

In verse 27 he suggests the false god doesn't answer because he's in the restroom......

Answer 4

There are many other verses of scripture, at least an equal number in the Bible, that speak in plural terms of “lords” and “gods.” The first chapter of Genesis states:

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” (Gen. 1:26; italics added.)

Such references are found from Genesis to Revelation. (See Rev. 1:6.)

The strongest one was given by Christ Himself when He quoted that very clear verse from the Eighty-second Psalm:

“Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? [See Ps. 82:6.]

“If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

“Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?” (John 10:34–36; italics added.)

The acceptance of this truth does not mean accepting the multiple gods of mythology nor the polytheism of the pagans, which was so roundly condemned by Isaiah and the other prophets.

There is one God, the Father of all. This we accept as fundamental doctrine.

There is only one Redeemer, Mediator, Savior. This we know.

There is one Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, who completes the Godhead.

Paul used the plural many and the singular one in the same verse:

“For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

“But to us there is but one God, the Father.” (1 Cor. 8:5–6.)

Anyone who believes and teaches of God the Father, and accepts the divinity of Christ, and of the Holy Ghost, teaches a plurality of Gods.

Relying on Reason
When the early Apostles were gone, those who assumed the leadership of the Church forsook revelation and relied on reason. The idea of three separate Gods offended them, for it appeared to contravene those scriptures which refer to one God.

To reconcile that problem, they took verses here and there and ignored all else that bears on the subject. They tried to stir the three ones together into some mysterious kind of a composite one. They came up with creeds which cannot be squared with the scriptures. And they were left with a philosophy which opposes all we know of creation, of the laws of nature. And that, interestingly enough, defies the very reason upon which they came to depend.

The Apostle Paul understood this doctrine and wrote to the Philippians:

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.” (Philip. 2:5–6.)

Lorenzo Snow, a modern Apostle, wrote a poem to his ancient counterpart Paul, from which I quote only one verse:

A Son of God, like God to be,
Would not be robbing Deity,
And he who has this hope within,
Will purify himself from sin.
(Improvement Era, June 1919, p. 661.)

Answer 5

No, I would take this to mean GOD the Father and GOD the Son.

Answer 6

It has the same connotation as the Royal "we." A ruler speaks a nation.

Answer 7

Why is Elohim in plural form?

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