What “Elohim” Means in the Bible

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“One of the more frequent names for God in the Old Testament is Elohim, with the translation simply being ‘God.’ But what exactly does the name Elohim tell us about who God is?” - Ligonier

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Does Scripture Show God Has Emotions?

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“Some people suppose happiness is uniquely human, unrelated to God’s nature: as He gave us a body and hunger, which He doesn’t have, He gave us a capacity for happiness, which He also doesn’t have. I believe something radically different” - Randy Alcorn

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Where Does Happiness Originate?

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“Some people suppose happiness is uniquely human, unrelated to God’s nature: as He gave us a body and hunger, which He doesn’t have, He gave us a capacity for happiness, which He also doesn’t have. I believe something radically different” - Randy Alcorn

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“The Trinity is in the Old Testament present but concealed”

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“God does not simply call Himself Ehyeh (I AM). Instead, God gives Moses a new Hebrew word that appears to be a concatenation of syllables from three other words: Yihyeh – He will be; Hoveh – He was; Hayah – He is.” - P&D

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So, What God Do You Not Believe In?

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“Dawkins wrote as if God is just a bigger and stronger human, a being like the rest of us who merely happens to be very powerful.” - Breakpoint

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The Beauty of Divine Simplicity

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“When God revealed Himself to Moses at the burning bush He identified Himself as being—the ‘I am’ (Ex. 3:14). Unlike everyone else, He is not from somewhere or the fruit of ancestors. He is not even a species within a genus.” - Credo

Related: I AM: Simplicity - P&D

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Divine Eternity: On God's Relationship to Time

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“Does God exist in time or independently of it? Is he timelessly eternal, or does his life pass through an everlasting succession of moments? Most Christians agree that God transcends time in some fashion, but how, exactly?” - Credo

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Does God Repent, or Doesn’t He? Part 2: Toward an Answer

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What do we make of the fact that the Bible says both that God repents and that he doesn’t?

I think the key to what’s going on here comes from the passage about God’s rejection of King Saul. I don’t know whether you noticed this in the previous post, but this event appears in both the list of statements that God doesn’t repent and the list of examples of his repenting.

In other words, the passage says both that God doesn’t repent and that he does.

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Does God Repent, or Doesn’t He? Part 1: The Question

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In a previous post I meditated a bit on the prophets’ repeated description of God as “one who relents concerning calamity” (Jonah 4.2). And as I noted at the time, that assertion introduces what appears to be a significant theological problem.

The Scripture says repeatedly that God does not repent:

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