#eloah

The Sword of St. Michael

Skellig Michael (Ireland) – remote monastic island. St. Michael’s Mount (England). Mont Saint-Michel (France). Sacra di San Michele (Italy, Piedmont). Monte Sant’Angelo (Italy, Gargano). Monastery of the Archangel Michael, Symi (Greece). Monastery of Mount Carmel (Israel).

Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)

Ok SO! I love this lil gremlin of a demon belonging to the creative mind of Eloah, so here's Marcy in all of her mischievous glory. I also blame Eloah for getting me hooked on Marcy cause she's too cute to not love!!

Behold Blessed is the man whom Eloah corrects  Therefore the rebuke of Shaddai  Do not despise 

For he bruises,  But he also bandages;  He wounds,  But his hands make whole 

In six troubles he will deliver you  And even in seven  No ra’ will touch you 

In ra’ab  he will redeem you from death  And in war  from the reach of the sword

From the lash of the tongue you will be hidden  And you shall not be afraid when disaster comes 

Whether disaster or famine  You shall laugh  And shall not be afraid  Of the beasts of the ‘erets

For with the stones of the field  You will have agreement  And the beasts of the field  Will be at peace with you 

And you shall know  That your tent is shalom  And when you visit your dwelling  You will find nothing amiss 

And you shall know  That your seed will be many  And your offspring like the grass of the ‘erets 

You will come to the grave after a full life  As a sheaf of grain ripens in time 

Behold  We have searched this thing out  Hear it and you shall know for yourself 

Eloah

She/her

Homosexual

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-An insane angel 

-Trying to sin as much as possible in hopes of becoming a demon

-Nobody’s really sure why she wants to become a demon so bad

-Has a giant black “X” across her face

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I want to ask a question that may require a great deal of preface. This question is likely to be just as answerable by our friends in the Jewish and Muslim communities as by Christians (he says while acknowledging his lack of insight into at least two of the three). 

Background

It is the common understanding that God is God alone. So much so that we all (usually) claim (with varying degrees of convincingness) to be monotheistic. Meaning we worship a single God. 

There are no other “real” gods, we are told. It is this specifically but the monotheism, in general, that I would like to talk about.

The Psalms

Psalm 82 tells us you are all gods! That is a topic with its own question.

In Psalm 95:3 we read:

For the LORD is a great God, a great king who is superior to all gods. [NET]

Here it is again annotated with the translation notes I looked up (on Bible hub).

For the LORD (Yahway SH3068) is a great God (El SH410), a great king who is superior to all gods (Elohim SH430).

Elsewhere all these titles are attributed directly to The Most High God. A title that would be meaningless unless there were lower gods.

“Elohim” is, according to the NAS Exhaustive Concordance the (masculine) plural form of “eloah”.

Genesis

In Genesis 3:22 Yahway Elohim says “the man has become like us”. Yahway (Rendered Lord or most high) Elohim (God).

1. To whom is Yahway Elohim speaking?

2. Who are the lower Elohim that God is King or ruler over? Is it just us as Psalm 82 counts us among the Elohim or are there others?

3. If we are gods as Psalm 82 and Genesis 3:22 suggests, then are there very many “lower” gods?

In Genesis 1:1 which says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...” That word we render God is Elohim a plural form of “eloah”. The translation notes for verse 2 has the VeRuach (of) Elohim hovering. The Spirit of Elohim is usually how that is translated.

3. Why don’t we render that first verse “In the beginning, the gods created...”? I understand that this would create doctrinal problems for everyone but if that is what the text is saying... 

4. Is the Spirit of God (or the spirit of any elohim) a separate entity or an extension of Elohim?

Job

In Job 1:6, the sons of haElohim (The God) present themselves before him. That suggests an entire family structure going on. Among the sons is haSatan (The Accuser) who makes a case against Job.

5. Are the sons of God the lower gods? It would stand to reason that a son is like his father, after all.

6. Is The Satan, therefore a lesser god - or at least the job description of one?

Jesus as a son

In Christianity, we have the figure of Jesus who is, we are told, the only begotten son of God. In light of the questions from the texts the predate Jesus, it does not seem like a huge stretch to claim to be a son of God if we are all gods and, by extension, all God’s children.

7. With all these pre-existing sons, where does Jesus fit into the picture?

The new testament authors talk about us being co-heirs with Jesus. Which suggests that Jesus stands to inherit something.

8. What might Jesus inherit?

The life to come

9. Given that we are elohim, as the scriptures say, might our place in the life to come be as sons of The Most Hight? 

10a. Are we, therefore, little more than babies in a nursery right now?

10b. And, if so, might our best understanding be highly simplistic and very, very limited?

Final thoughts

All of these questions leave me wondering how monotheistic the faith truly is. I do not, just for clarity, question that we worship The Highest of the gods, only if there are other gods our God is king over.