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Podcast: Biblical Theology of the Spiritual World
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ST627 Lesson 05
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:15:07
Publish Date: 2016-08-26 18:25:00
Description: Explore that "El" is the generic word for deity across the Semitic languages. Elohim (plural) is also generic for deity. Baal means "lord" or "master". At Ugarit, Baal is called the most high. El was in the background for the Canaanites. The human world was imposed on the divine world. El and Baal epitaphs were also used of a second figure. In the Israelite world, the Canaanite two system was retained but both slots are occupied by Yahweh figures. The biblical writers could not tolerate a second separate deity so they filled both slots with the invisible and visible Yahweh. These are the antecedents to the Godhead. We have the core of a three person Godhead in the Hebrew Bible. Consider that five times in the New Testament, the Spirit is described as the Spirit of Jesus. Just as Jesus is but is not God, so the Spirit is but isn't Jesus. This is where we get our Trinitarian theology. Explore Benjamin Sommer’s text, “The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel”. He states that the idea of the Christian Trinity is very reconcilable with what we read in the Hebrew Bible. Sommer states that the idea of God being multiple persons and existing simultaneously is not new. This can be found in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature. This is important when it comes to New Testament scholars such as Bart Erhman. Erhman views the deity of Christ and concept of the Trinity as being invented late in the history of the early church. There was rampant speculation in between the Testaments as to who the second power was.
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