Supernatural: A Study Guide

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“Who or what is an elohim? It’s actually a broad title (not a name) which can be translated as ‘God,’ ‘god,’ ‘godhead,’ ‘spirit,’ ‘deity,’ ‘divine being,’ or ‘strong one’—with each option carrying its own theological agenda.” (source)

“Are the ‘gods’ of the first commandment (‘You shall have no other gods before me’) real, personal beings?” (source)

“For example, Psalm 97:7 says, ‘Worship him, all you elohim,’ demanding that the gods worship their creator, the God of Israel. When the New Testament quotes this verse in Hebrews 1:6, the writer says it this way: ‘Let all the angels [Greek, angeloi] of God worship him.’ Where elohim, or ‘gods,’ appear in Psalm 97, ‘angels’ appear in Hebrews 1. Very simply, we will find that angels are gods, and that gods can sometimes function as angels.” (source)

“Everyone in the end shares the destiny of the god he or she worships.” (source)

“So we can think of our ‘image’ as a gift from God, a stewardship of rule, which we have unfortunately lost because of our disloyalty to our Creator (Rom 3:23, ‘fallen short of the glory of God’). Humankind has handed the privilege of rule over to the beings they have chosen to worship.” (source)