Wednesday, June 6, 2007

God vs. Gods

Okay, here’s a few thoughts on the God vs. Gods thing. Ancient Israel had a problem with the idolatry, so the prophets where continually tasked to exhort the populace towards exclusive worship of their covenant God Jehovah or Yahweh. It was important to delegitimize the polytheistic worship of multiple god’s then common in Canaan. Further, since Elohem was operating mostly out of the picture, according to a common Mormon reading of the Old Testament, the pre-incarnate Christ was the only God with which they where to have anything to do. When the other members of the Godhead (Holy Ghost, The Father) were re-introduced during the New Testament period, emphasis on their unity of purpose was gradually confessed to one of substance. Hence the Trinitarian concepts of God codified in the creeds of the time of Constantine.

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