Re: An Early Trinity
George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:25:34 -0400
ArvesonPT@nswccd.navy.mil wrote:
>
> George Murphy said:
>
> >In fact, excessive emphasis on the plural "let us make..." here might lead
> one
> >to the mistaken idea that _only_ the creation of humanity is a work of the
> Trinity and
> >that in all the other creative work only one person of the Trinity is
> acting.
>
> This conclusion may be discouraged by Genesis 1:1, where the word used
> for God is Elohim, not El.
Yes if the grammatically plural form of elohim is understood in a trinitarian
sense, but I think that's even more debatable than understanding "let us make" in such
a way.
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/