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1 | CHAPTER 6 LORD SAID AND 9 GOD SAID | Gen 2:3 | 27783 | |||
Genesis is written in two different ways. One way portrays God as impersonal and trancendent and the other portrays God as personal and emminent. You can see this throughout Genesis. If you look, the creation story is told twice as are others. "God" is used as impersonal. In the Hebrew text, he is refferred to as Elohim, which is a general name refferring to a god. "Lord" is used to describe God as personal. It is his personal name that he gave to Moses when asked. The hebrew word is "YHWH" which is God's personal name. | ||||||
2 | CHAPTER 6 LORD SAID AND 9 GOD SAID | Gen 2:3 | Hank | 27786 | ||
Malachi, YHWH is the covenant name of God. Genesis is written as a single narrative, in only one way, not two. There are not two accounts of creation; the second narrative merely expands on the first. Elohim is not used as "impersonal...referring to a god" in Gen. 1:1. The text is not saying "a god created the heavens and the earth." "The Hebrew noun Elohim is plural but the verb is singular, a normal usage in the OT when reference is to the one true God. This use of the plural expresses intensification rather than number and has been called the plural of majesty." (NASB Study Bible: Zondervan.) --Hank | ||||||