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    Yahweh Elohim,” a Hebrew word for what many translate in English to mean “God” created and set in motion his framework for the world. God, three beings in one is all knowing and powerful and transcendent is who the Judeo-Christian community refer to as their creator. This is not in fact true for the Pagans populations of the world who believe in a variety of Gods were no one god is supreme or holds power over the other, but only that they function under a contingency effect, a give and take of…

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    the first story the creator is called God, but in the second story the creator is referred to as the LORD God. This is because there were two names for God, Elohim and Yahweh, in the old Testament, to highlight the emphasis the author is trying to make. The name Elohim is a general name for God and is used to help depict God as above all. Elohim in the revised versions of the bible is God. Yahweh is used as a way to depict and reflect on God’s relationship with the people, as Yahweh is His…

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    name Yahweh, for God, was so sacred it wasn’t to be said. The theory is that God revealed to Moses four letters YHWH. The pronunciation of Yahweh is unclear. The E stands for Elohist from Elohim. It is dated to 750 B.C. Just like Jawist it found it covers the same area of the scripture. Elohist labels God as Elohim. The P stands for Priestly. It is dated to 500 B.C. This sources writings are dispersed from Genesis to Deuteronomy.…

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    Leviticus 18: 22 and 20:13: The Rejection of the Christian Homophobic Moral The rejection of homosexuality is prevalent throughout Christian societies. This denunciation stems from the Christian interpretation of normative relationships as found in biblical passages such as Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. These passages directly assert the rejection of male-male sexual relations. Christians use these texts to apply a universal moral that declares same-sex relationships as Biblically unethical.…

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    JEWS POINT OF VIEW: Jewish concepts of creation are based on the account of Genesis and bounce back different views of that particular account. One belief central to Judaism is that Elohim (God) designed the world and believe that human beings are Elohim’s creation. A Huge number of Jews consider that the Genesis account is completely true and that the world was formed in 6 days. From this view, the world is 5,767 years old in 2006. The followers of Torah (i.e., jews) believe that…

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    Yahwist Analysis

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    The first five books of the Torah are the most important readings from the Hebrew Bible. They discuss the foundations of Judaism and set the tone for what is expected as a follower of the religion. Genesis is the first book of the Torah and discusses the creation of the universe and the beginning for human beings. Genesis was created from two different source theories. The two source theories for Genesis are Yahwist and Priestly. The source theory Yahwist is explained as using God’s name Yahweh,…

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    Eye of the Oracle is the prequel to the Dragons in our Midst series. The book starts in pre-flood days and tells the story of the dragons protecting the oracles of fire throughout the ages. It starts out with Thiolocia and Makaidos protecting the ovulum and the oracle of fire from the watchers. The watchers are fallen angels from heaven that are trying to stop Noah from building an ark. The oracle dies, but Thiolocia and Makaidos are chosen to go onto the ark and raise up the next generation of…

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    Reference: 1 John 4:2 (KJV) 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: Note: Run do not walk from all others! Because we need to realize that “one spirit’s hell is another spirit’s heaven” i.e. “one spirit’s heaven is another spirit’s hell” – and that there are many evil spirits (that are of the antichrist) who are repulsed by the TRUTH of a Loving Creator (spirits who can never again return to the Divine Field because…

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    . THE DISPENSATION OF CREATION Chapter 5 THE DISPENSATION OF CREATION GENESIS 1:1 In the last chapter (Chapter 4) I had written in my introduction the following: //Before I take up Genesis 1:1, which is the only beginning we know well, and my next topic, I would like us to examine briefly a time period starting from the time the Word-Being (son) came into existence, to the creation of the earth (Genesis 1:1). This time period I will tentatively call the Dispensation of Time/Space. What and how…

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    Mormonism And Polygamy

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    One of the topics that was discussed in the chapter of Mormonism was polygamy. The founder of the Latter-day Saints is Joseph Smith, who was a polygamist himself. As a result, this influenced Mormons to become polygamist themselves because their founder was one as well. However, only men could take multiple wives whereas women could only have one husband. When the United States government threatened to take away the assets from Mormon churches the Latter-day Saints agreed to compromise with…

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