Is God A Trinity PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

The story proceeds then with "Let there be light." theappearance of dry land, plants, animals and man, much as inGenesisNotice that the Mayas speak of two creating beingsinstead of oneThey have actually retained a detail not commonly understoodoutside the original Hebrew context of the Genesisrecord. For the Bible, too, shows there were two distinctpersonalities involved in creation. not one as commonlyassumedWhen Genesis 1:1 opens with "In the beginningGod " the Hebrew word for "God" used here is Elohim.It is in the plural form which can designate more than oneNote that Genesis 1:26 was correctly translated from theoriginal Hebrew: ''And God said, Let us make man in our1mageMost professing Christians would find it alien to conceiveof more than one being as the creator. Yet Elohim canexpress plurality. The word in Genesis One means "God,"but in a family relationship. The New Testament speaks of"God the Father" and "God the Son," the One who becameJesus. They are two distinct beings. but both are God. Bothof them have been together since eternity. ''In the beginningwas the Word [the Son]. and the Word was with God [theFather]. and the Word was God'" (John 1: 1). Together theyplanned the creation, and God the Son carried it out (John1:3; Col. 1:16). Notice Ephesians 3:9 " ... God [theFather], who created all things by Jesus Christ."Thus the Bible reveals that there were actually two spiritbeings - two distinct personalities who united their effortsin the creation - exactly as the Maya account so surprisinglyrelates