Elohim is not another god

Submitted by zzazzeefrazzee (United States), Feb 21, 2008 at 10:44

You conveniently overlook the very close association of Elohim, ilah, and Allah. Is Elohim not an attribute of the Divine in Scripture? Next, What about the Aramaic and later Syriac languages as an expression of scripture?

As far as the government of Indonesia is concerned, I've been rather intrigued by this, as I was not aware that Indonesia was home to a large population of Arabic Christians. I do believe that they are responding largely to missionary activity, and the government has now backed off. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Shall you ask an Arab Christian (Other than Dhimmi-no-more)to re-write their bibles?

The only reason you don't accept the nature of this linguistically, is due to your chosen beliefs of Jesus as a Godhead. Interestingly enough, Jews aren't complicated by that particular matter, are they?

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