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Pagan heathen gods. They even dared to substitute the name “EHYEH=I AM” with the Pagan EL and Elohim. Apparently the religious leaders forgot Ex. 3:13-15, Deut. 18:20, Mal. 2:1-2, and Psa. 44:20-21. Jesus came in his Father’s Name John 5:43. Yehoshua=Ehyeh, Creator/Savior. The Catholic Church later invented or placed the false name of Jehovah in the Scriptures.
Peoples of The Past: CANAANITES by Dr. and Archaeologist Jonathan N. Tubb, 1998, pages 73-75. “The supreme god [of the pagan Canaanite pantheon] was El (the word means simply God in almost every Semitic language [and powerful one]), who was seen as the father of the gods and ruler of the divine assembly on the ‘mountain of the gods.’ On a limestone sculpture from Ugarit, El is depicted as an elderly god and from various epithets preserved in the texts he appears to have been seen as aloof and yet wise, benevolent and compassionate. According to one of the poems from Ugarit, known by its first line as ‘The birth of the gracious and beautiful gods,’ El seduced two women who gave birth to Dawn and Dusk. El’s consort and counterpart was Asherah, a marine goddess who was seen as the ‘creator of creatures’ and mother of the gods according to the text, she bore EL seventy divine sons. She is frequently seen in the position of the tree of life, giving sustenance to animals on either side of her. It is for this reason that the stylized tree of life referred to in the Old Testament is called the ‘asherah.’
It is also important to realize that these stories represent the literary heritage of Canaan, a heritage in which Israel, as a sub-polity of [Pagan/Canaanites] Canaan, also shared.” It was hard for Israel to stay monotheistic. At times, the nation regressed back to Paganism. They worshiped the Triad of the Gods EL, Baal, and Asherah. Just like modern day, religions and churches also have reverted to paganism or the Trinity doctrine.
Also, let us look at further documentation that Elohim and El originally come from Pagan sources. However, the Hebrew people took these early pagan Semitic terms and used them to mean only one singular unique mighty God in their religious belief system. These terms were applied to God and used in place of His real Name. Therefore, the translation of “elohim” to have a plural or Trinity meaning like “Let us” or “us” in Biblical texts found in Genesis 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; and Isaiah 6:8 are very bias, erroneous and misleading. The Hebrew meaning of elohim was for only one God. To get more than one deity or a plurality out of this term you must go back to its original Pagan Canaanite Mythology meaning. Trinitarians are going back to ancient witchcraft (not the Biblical Hebrew) when they use these texts and terms to try to prove their plural three-god doctrine.
The Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol. 15, page 54, 1987. “Development of Trinitarian Doctrine. Exegetes and theologians today are in agreement that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity, even though it was customary in past dogmatic tract on the Trinity to cite texts like Genesis 1:26, "Let us make humanity in our image, after our likeness" (see also Gn. 3:22, 11:7, Is 6:2-3) as proof of plurality in God. Although the Hebrew Bible depicts God as the father of Israel and employs personifications of God such as Word (Davar), Spirit (ruah), Wisdom (hokhmah), and Presence (shekhinah), it would go beyond the intention and spirit of the Old Testament to correlated these notions with later Trinitarian doctrine.
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