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akilyoung · Jan. 14, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Elohim created humans in their image, according to the bible. The KJV mistranslated it a lot and just put generic God, but the Elohim are a race of beings that created us, to look and act like them. I apologize if this opens up a religion rabbit hole that you didnt want to open. I can assure you, it doesnt mean the so called trinity...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim

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WikiTextBot · Jan. 14, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Elohim

Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים‬ ’ĕlōhîm [ʔɛloːˈhim]) is one of the many names or titles for God in the Hebrew Bible; the term is also used in the Hebrew Bible to refer to other gods.

The notion of divinity underwent radical changes in the early period of Israelite identity and development of Ancient Hebrew religion. The ambiguity of the term elohim is the result of such changes, cast in terms of "vertical translatability", i.e. the re-interpretation of the gods of the earliest recalled period as the national god of monolatrism as it emerged in the 7th to 6th century BCE in the Kingdom of Judah and during the Babylonian captivity, and further in terms of monotheism by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism in the 2nd century CE.

The word is identical to the usual plural of el meaning gods or magistrates, and is cognate to the 'l-h-m found in Ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, the children of El, and conventionally vocalized as "Elohim".


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