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Explorations of the Torah’s teachings, historical context, and theological foundations.

Rabbinic Judaism and the Plurality of God Members Public

In this short post I will be citing two sources to affirm that words such as Elohim (“God”) and echad (“one”) were even understood by Jewish authorities as pointing to a plurality within the Godhead, that the one God exists as a plurality of divine powers and manifestations.  Elohim and

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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OT Proof That Echad Does Not Point to God Being Uni-Personal Members Public

The following verse functions as the creed, or confession of faith, which the Israelites were to live by: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one (echad) Lord:” Deuteronomy 6:4 Oftentimes, anti-Trinitarians will cite this text as proof that God is a singular Person, not just a singular

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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The Sons of God of Deuteronomy 32:8 Revisited Members Public

This is a follow up to my post on the identity of the sons of God in Deuteronomy 32:8 /2018/10/28/the-sons-of-god-of-deuteronomy-328-angels-or-the-children-of-israel/. Someone quoted a “scholar” who appealed to the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to prove his point that even the Jews that translated the Pentateuch into Aramaic viewed the

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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The Sons of God of Deuteronomy 32:8: Angels or the Children of Israel? Members Public

According to Deuteronomy, God divided the nations in respect to his people, the children of Israel: “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” Deuteronomy

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Yahweh Son of the Most High! Pt. 1 Members Public

More OT Proof for God’s Triunity In this post, I’m going to discuss a particular OT text that has led some scholars to conclude that early Israelite religion wasn’t monotheistic, and did not think that Yahweh was the sole or chief Deity. The passage which I have

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Does the word Elohim in Genesis 1 point to God’s Triunity? Members Public

This post is meant to go with my series titled Elohim and the Trinity https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/elohim_trinity.html. The readers may already be aware of the fact that Elohim is a plural noun since the “im” at the end is a masculine plural suffix. This is

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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AN OPEN CHALLENGE TO MUSLIMS CONCERNING THE BIBLE Members Public

The Quran emphatically testifies that one of its main functions is to confirm/bear witness to the textual reliability and authority of the very Scriptures that the Jews and Christians had with them during Muhammad’s time: O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Abraham as Echad: Addressing a Muslim Objection Members Public

A particular Muslim polemicist raised the following objection in response to the Christian understanding that the Hebrew word echad, which Deuteronomy 6:4 uses to describe the oneness of God, actually points to God being a complex or compound unity, as opposed to existing as a singular or absolute one:

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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