Why Elohim if God is Absolutely One?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ben_Masada
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
I am sorry Ben but your post #216 does not answer my question. Isaiah 9:6 is unequivocal. The name of this child is to be called God the Mighty. In other words, this child is God himself. It does not state that his name means God the Mighty.
That is not correct. That is, it is certainly not unequivocal. the word for “Mighty God” or “od the Mighty” was used to refer to princes, kings and generally people who held power.

Or it can be viewed as a description/name for a king. The words while used for a king, are a testimonial to the greatness of God. A promise of what benefits God will have that person bestow on the nation of Israel.
 
That is not correct. That is, it is certainly not unequivocal. the word for “Mighty God” or “od the Mighty” was used to refer to princes, kings and generally people who held power.

Or it can be viewed as a description/name for a king. The words while used for a king, are a testimonial to the greatness of God. A promise of what benefits God will have that person bestow on the nation of Israel.
6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and
the government is upon his shoulder: and
his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.
7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace:
**he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; **
to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Who is the person these verses are referring to whose empire shall be multiplied and there shall be no end of peace? When and where does this kingdom exist?

Who is this king who shall sit upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom?

Who is this king who is to establish his kingdom with judgement and justice from henceforth and for ever?
 
If Paul didn’t give textual support for the belief in trinity. Assuming he mentions it at all, then what does the allegation that he was very knoweldgable in Torah have to do with anything?
It proves that Paul did not find your Torah contradictory to the doctrine of Trinity.
 
I am sorry Ben but your post #216 does not answer my question. Isaiah 9:6 is unequivocal. The name of this child is to be called God the Mighty. In other words, this child is God himself. It does not state that his name means God the Mighty.
**Are you by any chance aware that the Egyptians of the time of the Pharaohs would refer to Pharaoh as Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace? They did. And to a certain extent, also the Romans would thus refer to Caesar Augustus. Do you think they literally meant what they claimed? Of course not! They knew that they were men and they saw them dying like a man.

Now, allow me to tell you that Judah, after Israel was removed from existence remained in a better condition. We do die individually, but the People who derived from that Judah will never die. Why? Because if they died out, the natural laws would go berserk. (Jer. 31:35-37) And how about the other nations or peoples? Yes, eventually they will die out but Israel will never. (Jer. 46:28). Besides, the text in I Kings 11:36 states that God promised David that Judah would remain forever.

Please, do not post back statements that imply I am making up things if you don’t want to bother checking the quotations. Everything is down in the Scriptures. Thanks you.

Ben: :)**
 
But of course, it had to be in the NT. Of the NT I believe only 20 percent. The rest is interpolation, and this is one of them. But I am open-minded to consider anything that makes sense to me.
And we discussing about particular truths using bibles that we don’t both recognize as true simply makes no sense, isn’t it?
The opposite is true. The Kingdom was rather confirmed on Judah according to Psalm 78:67-70 and I Kings 11:36.
It is not an opposite because Jesus is descendant from the tribe of Judah. Jesus is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets, therefore in him and with him Psalms 78:67-70 and 1 Kings 11:36 were fulfilled. He is the king spoken of in the books and by the prophets.
**The-wild-by-nature olive tree are the Gentiles. I hope you understand that. And do you know why they have been grafted contrary to nature? Think it through. No wonder Jesus declared that he had come ONLY for the Jews. Then, from the Jews, salvation is extended to the Gentiles according to John 4:22. That’s a mystery, as Paul said, that I don’t expect your to understand. Paul, likewise, did not expect the Gentiles to understand. So, he individualized the mystery to make it better understandable. **
God helps us understand. The analogy was made so that as Paul said, the Gentiles would not boast in conceits. For the blindness that was struck upon Israel would only be until the Gentiles have entered in. And as Jesus said, then there would be only one shepherd for both the Gentiles and the Jews. But the first would be last, and the last would be first.
The Galatians had been converted by the Nazarenes into becoming Jewish. But because Paul overturned the Nazarene synagogues in Galatia into Christian churches, they had returned to the condition of Gentiles again. Read Galatians 1:1-6
What Nazarene synagogues in Galatia are you talking about.No synagogue is mentioned there. Let’s read Galatians 1:1-6 together,
*1 Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— 2 and all the brothers with me,
To the churches in Galatia:
3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
No Other Gospel
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— *
bibleview.org/en/Bible/ActsPartOne/Galatians/
This is not fulfillment of laws but building of fences around the Law in order to make the break of the Law itself remote.
In other words, now you are saying that Jesus did not come to fulfill the law but to build fences for the law. Unfortunately, building fences for the law is not written in the bible as one of the purposes for the coming of Christ.
Nevertheless, the only occasion when that guard before Anas striked Jesus on the face for not speaking properly to the High Priest, did Jesus offered the other cheek? On the contrary. He turned to the guard and stood to him by asking why he had done that, and demanded proof that he had lacked with respect. It means that the guy who wrote the above about turning the other cheek made a fool of himself.
Jesus Himself is the meaning and interpretation of what he taught. Jesus did not respond violence with violence.
Jesus never built a church. What he built became known as the Sect of the Nazarenes. The Church was built by Paul, and you never forget to give the credit to whom the credit is due.
Ben: 🙂
Sure, in your Torah we can never find there that Jesus built a Church. But Christians are happy to know that in the bible the truth is written that Christ built a Church.
 
How do you explain Matthew 16:18?
**That’s an interpolation by the Fathers of the Church in 327 CE, with the purpose to document the Church with Apostolical credibility. Peter never had anything to do with Christianity. Peter was a Nazarene and a religious Jew to be involved with so much non-Jewish stuff.

Ben: 😊**
 
But Isaiah 9:6 states that a child is born and his name is to be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. The government is upon his shoulder.

Now tell me, who is this child whose name is to be called God the Mighty, etc.
He is Judah. Read Isaiah 8:8
 
I don’t know why I had to dig up the quote, as you (another poster! -Lapell) are the one who said it;

"But there is a Jew who obviously believe in the Trinity, more knowledgeable about the law than any other of his contemporaries. I am referring to Paul, a pharisee well-instructed in the law. "
Hello, Valke2! I am coming back on the holy Trinity according to Paul, as I was trying to remember of any verses but somehow couldn’t. And Paul talks so much about Jesus as the Christ (“Messiah”) that when he mentions something about the 3 persons of the Holy Trinity, we might either not notice it or forget it. Also, the way he mentions it seems to not be in the forefront of the topics of his letters, so it seems to have been understood and accepted by the Christians in those places a while ago.
Still, there ARE verses where the persons of the Trinity are mentioned. I believe “God the Father” or “God our Father” is the one mostly mentioned. As for Jesus being the Son, and God being His Father, it’s quite explicit in the first of Paul’s letters as they appear in the New Testament, that is, Paul’s letter to the Romans, in the very 1st chapter:

Rom. 1, 1-4: “Paul, the servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he had promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,concerning his Son who was born to him according to the flesh of the offspring of David; who wasforeordained Son of God by an act of power in keeping with the holiness of his spirit, by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord (…)”
2 Cor. 1, 3:“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ(…)”

And do you think the 3rd person of the Trinity is left out? (this question is for those who would think that mentioning “the holiness of his spirit” isn’t explicit at all…)

1 Cor. 12, 3: “Wherefore I give you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says “Anathema” to Jesus. And no one can say “Jesus is Lord”, except in the Holy Spirit.”
if this one verse is not explicit enough, what else is?

But otherwise, the verses speaking explicitly of the persons of the Trinity as they are relating to one another in Paul’s letters are not that many…
 
**Are you by any chance aware that the Egyptians of the time of the Pharaohs would refer to Pharaoh as Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace? They did. And to a certain extent, also the Romans would thus refer to Caesar Augustus. Do you think they literally meant what they claimed? Of course not! They knew that they were men and they saw them dying like a man.

Now, allow me to tell you that Judah, after Israel was removed from existence remained in a better condition. We do die individually, but the People who derived from that Judah will never die. Why? Because if they died out, the natural laws would go berserk. (Jer. 31:35-37) And how about the other nations or peoples? Yes, eventually they will die out but Israel will never. (Jer. 46:28). Besides, the text in I Kings 11:36 states that God promised David that Judah would remain forever.

Please, do not post back statements that imply I am making up things if you don’t want to bother checking the quotations. Everything is down in the Scriptures. Thanks you.

Ben: :)**
Ben, are those quotations explicit enough for those outside of Judaism (and maybe for some inside Judaism as well—if the saying “Two Jews, three opinions” is true even there) not to have a shadow of a doubt on their meaning?
 
And like I said somewhere, all we have about Paul are his letters in the NT and what the Acts of the Apostles tell us about him. What did he exactly say when he was preaching and when he was speaking to the Apostles and his collaborators other than that is left for us to guess and speculate, just as is the case with any oral teaching not put down into writing… as was the case with the Hebrew Bible, BTW! 🙂
 
**Show me in your own NT that Jesus built a church. You must be kidding!

Ben: :rolleyes:**
Ahem!.. :rolleyes:
Ben, dear Ben, do you know that “church” (which in Greek is said “Ecclesia” can be one of two things:
1- the assembly of Christians;
2- the building where they gather together.
Like you have “Qohelet” in your TaNaKH, and that word is translated “Ecclesiastes”…
Some things have to be explained otherwise than in Scriptural verses, and this is one case! Jesus was refering to definition no. 1- here,
 
**No, that’s not what I am saying. You are putting words in my mouth which were not in my mind. To the commandment not to kill Jesus added not to hate or keep a grudge against. To the commandment not to commit adultery, Jesus added not to look lustfully at a woman. These additions are the fences I referred to. **
Not really “additions”, Ben, unless you include “some precisions” among what is conveyed by “additions”. 😉
 
**This reply of yours above has nothing to do with the issue at hand. You are giving me replies without checking out the quotations. **
.The issue was about the bible passage that substantially says the kingdom of God being taken away from the Jews and given to a people yielding its fruits.
But you said, The opposite is true. The Kingdom was rather confirmed on Judah according to Psalm 78:67-70 and I Kings 11:36. Let us read again those two passages you gave,
Psalm 78:67-70
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;

gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Psalms+78%3A67-70

1 Kings 11:36,
*'But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.
*
Now, do those passages say that the Kingdom of God will never be taken away from the Jews? No, they don’t. At most, although they may be historically true, they are prophecies about the coming messiah, Jesus Christ, for so Jesus Christ is the center of the Scriptures and substance of the prophets. Therefore, although the kingdom was said to be taken away from Israel, this did not mean that the prophecy in Psalms and 1 Kings were voided. For Jesus Christ, the promised king, is a descendant of the tribe of Judah. And therefore, the prophecy was still fulfilled through the kingship of Jesus Christ who was a “shoot” of Judah. It is no wonder that today, all Christians (both Gentiles and Jews) recognize him as their King.
No, that’s not what I am saying. You are putting words in my mouth which were not in my mind. To the commandment not to kill Jesus added not to hate or keep a grudge against. To the commandment not to commit adultery, Jesus added not to look lustfully at a woman. These additions are the fences I referred to.
In short, you mean to say now that Jesus did not come *to build fences for the law.
  • Who built those fences then?
Show me in your own NT that Jesus built a church. You must be kidding!
Ben: :rolleyes:
No kidding. We have a record of it in our NT. Here,

Matthew 16:18 (New International Version)
18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+16:18

You will dismiss this simply as an interpolation, whatever that means. But your dismissal of it would not change the fact that we have it in our bible.
 
Isaiah 8:8
8 He will pass through Judah,
He will overflow and pass over,
He will reach up to the neck;
And the stretching out of his wings
Will fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel.

biblegateway.com/passage/index.php?version=50&search=Isaiah+8:8%2C10

It is obvious. Juda there is a place, not a person.
**Great! You found Isaiah 8:8. Now, if you read verses 6 and 7, you will see that "He that will overflow is Assyria, when they came for Judah, the People. They were so many that they overflew and stretched their wings throughout the breadth of the Land. But they did not succeed to shoot even a single arrow at Jerusalem. Mysteriously, they had to return. Plato said that it was because of a plague of rats that killed many of them. They returned to Assyria and soon later came back for Israel instead, according to Isaiah 9:8. God had spared Judah because of His promise to David that He would. (I Kings
11:36)

Now, you say that’s Judah, the place and not the people. Then I ask, who was in Judah, the place? The Jews, right? Right. That’s the child who was born out of the virgin Israel if you read Isaiah 7:14,15,22. And that the virgin was Israel, you can read in Amos 5:2.

Ben: 👍**
 
**Great! You found Isaiah 8:8. Now, if you read verses 6 and 7, you will see that "He that will overflow is Assyria, when they came for Judah, the People. They were so many that they overflew and stretched their wings throughout the breadth of the Land. But they did not succeed to shoot even a single arrow at Jerusalem. Mysteriously, they had to return. Plato said that it was because of a plague of rats that killed many of them. They returned to Assyria and soon later came back for Israel instead, according to Isaiah 9:8. God had spared Judah because of His promise to David that He would. (I Kings
11:36)

Now, you say that’s Judah, the place and not the people. Then I ask, who was in Judah, the place? The Jews, right? Right. That’s the child who was born out of the virgin Israel if you read Isaiah 7:14,15,22. And that the virgin was Israel, you can read in Amos 5:2.

Ben: 👍**
When the word Judah was used in Isaiah 8:8, it referred to place. When we read the word “Jews” it refers to people. Therefore, when place is referred to, let us take it as place and not as people. And when people is referred to, then let us take it as people and not as place. That way we would not mix-up things.
 
.The issue was about the bible passage that substantially says the kingdom of God being taken away from the Jews and given to a people yielding its fruits.
But you said, The opposite is true. The Kingdom was rather confirmed on Judah according to Psalm 78:67-70 and I Kings 11:36. Let us read again those two passages you gave,
Psalm 78:67-70
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;

gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Psalms+78%3A67-70

1 Kings 11:36,
*'But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.
*
Now, do those passages say that the Kingdom of God will never be taken away from the Jews? No, they don’t. At most, although they may be historically true, they are prophecies about the coming messiah, Jesus Christ, for so Jesus Christ is the center of the Scriptures and substance of the prophets. Therefore, although the kingdom was said to be taken away from Israel, this did not mean that the prophecy in Psalms and 1 Kings were voided. For Jesus Christ, the promised king, is a descendant of the tribe of Judah. And therefore, the prophecy was still fulfilled through the kingship of Jesus Christ who was a “shoot” of Judah. It is no wonder that today, all Christians (both Gentiles and Jews) recognize him as their King.
 
When the word Judah was used in Isaiah 8:8, it referred to place. When we read the word “Jews” it refers to people. Therefore, when place is referred to, let us take it as place and not as people. And when people is referred to, then let us take it as people and not as place. That way we would not mix-up things.
**What a great wisdom you have! When Isaiah says in 1:1 that the whole book is about a vision he had concerning Judah and Jerusalem, it’s about the place, not the people. When God promised David to spare Judah for his sake so that Judah would remain forever as a Lamp in Jerusalem, that’s the place and not the people. When Isaiah speaks about the new Israel from the stock of Judah, he means the stock of the land and not of the people. (Isa. 48:1 ) When Jacob said that the scepter will never depart from Judah until Shiloh comes, he meant from the land not the people. (Gen. 49:10) When Leah gave birth to Judah, it was the land, and not a son. Should I continue or you have got the idea? I am impressed with your wisdom.

Ben: :)**
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top