Apostle's Creed & the Divinity of Jesus
Response to comment [from a Jew]: "1. I believe in God, the Father
almighty, creator of heaven and earth. 2. I believe in Jesus
Christ, his only Son, our Lord...What seems to be missing here is a
clear declaration of the divinity of Jesus."
It is important to understand the first verse of
the Bible (Ge 1:1).
Henry Morris wrote:
"This first occurrence of the
divine name is the Hebrew
Elohim,
the name of God which stresses His majesty and omnipotence. This is the name
used throughout the first chapter of Genesis. The
im
ending is the Hebrew plural ending, so that
Elohim
can actually mean “gods,” and is so translated in various passages referring
to the gods of the heathen (e.g., Psalm 96:5).
However, it is clearly used here in
the singular, as the mighty name of God the Creator, the first of over two
thousand times where it is used in this way. Thus Elohim is a plural name
with a singular meaning, a “uni-plural” noun, thereby suggesting the uni-plurality
of the Godhead. God is one, yet more than one."
Morris, Henry
M.: The Genesis Record : A Scientific and Devotional Commentary
on the Book of Beginnings. Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Books, 1976,
S. 39Response to comment [from a Jew]: "Do
you really want to go into the linguistics of this? Are you
going to start suggesting that the Hebrew word for 1 (in the Shema)
means uni-plural or something of the sort?"
I really got into this with Ge 1:1 and the
word "Elohim".
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Apostle's Creed & The Divinity of Jesus