The Names of God
Jesse M. Hendley
Genesis 1:1
We found out that when true scientists admit they do not know a thing to be positively true, they say, "We believe," and speak roughly of time, and so forth. That is a truly scientific attitude because science deals with proven facts. A thing is not scientific if it isn't absolute fact, and if it isn't fact, then they must present it as theory. So let's remember that in reading current so called scientific articles.
Now we take up the next word in Genesis 1:1 as we study the story of creation in this great first chapter of Genesis. We read, "In the beginning God." Isn't that wonderful? What a wonderful assurance, as we turn from reading philosophers and other so-called scientific men, unbelieving scientists who leave God out of creation! How wonderful it is to turn to the Bible and read God's Holy Word, that in the beginning GOD CREATED the heavens and the earth.
Now the word "God" here (and He is the One with Whom we have to do. We ought to study about God) the word for God is the Hebrew word Elohim. "In the beginning Elohim created." Elohim created!
This word Elohim is the plural of a word that signifies "violent inward anxiety, discomposure, and fear." It coincides with a word that means, "dread" in Genesis 42 and 43. Now that's an important passage as we study the etymology of the word Elohim, how we got it. In Genesis 31, we read, concerning Isaac, of a name for God that isn't commonly thought about, Verse 42. This is a wonderful statement about God. "Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and THE FEAR OF ISAAC had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked thee yesternight."
There we have Jacob speaking to Laban. Jacob had been working for Laban, you remember, and Laban tried to trick him out of that which was rightfully his, and now Jacob says, "Except the God of my father, ...
Jesse M. Hendley
Genesis 1:1
We found out that when true scientists admit they do not know a thing to be positively true, they say, "We believe," and speak roughly of time, and so forth. That is a truly scientific attitude because science deals with proven facts. A thing is not scientific if it isn't absolute fact, and if it isn't fact, then they must present it as theory. So let's remember that in reading current so called scientific articles.
Now we take up the next word in Genesis 1:1 as we study the story of creation in this great first chapter of Genesis. We read, "In the beginning God." Isn't that wonderful? What a wonderful assurance, as we turn from reading philosophers and other so-called scientific men, unbelieving scientists who leave God out of creation! How wonderful it is to turn to the Bible and read God's Holy Word, that in the beginning GOD CREATED the heavens and the earth.
Now the word "God" here (and He is the One with Whom we have to do. We ought to study about God) the word for God is the Hebrew word Elohim. "In the beginning Elohim created." Elohim created!
This word Elohim is the plural of a word that signifies "violent inward anxiety, discomposure, and fear." It coincides with a word that means, "dread" in Genesis 42 and 43. Now that's an important passage as we study the etymology of the word Elohim, how we got it. In Genesis 31, we read, concerning Isaac, of a name for God that isn't commonly thought about, Verse 42. This is a wonderful statement about God. "Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and THE FEAR OF ISAAC had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked thee yesternight."
There we have Jacob speaking to Laban. Jacob had been working for Laban, you remember, and Laban tried to trick him out of that which was rightfully his, and now Jacob says, "Except the God of my father, ...
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