Note: Notice in the picture the pagan and masonic symbols of the Catholic Trinity the Sun worship, and the masonic  triangle, common to find in their pictures and engravings.  

PAGAN TRINITIES

Whenever the authorities of the Old Testament books used the term Elohim to refer to the God of Israel, they consistently used a singular verb.

In Genesis 1:1 Elohim is the One doing the creating, with the Hebrew verb for “create” in the singular.

In other words, the verb has a singular pronoun as a suffix, meaning He created.

On the other hand, whenever the writers of the old Testament discussed the many gods and goddesses of neighboring lands, they consistently used a plural verb in writing about the elohim, the gods of the nations. For then they were writing about polytheism.

What is of particular interest is, that the Hebrew Old Testament also uses the term in reference to one specific pagan deity.

For some time now, certain authors have claimed that the use of Elohim shows that the God of the Bible is a trinity of three persons. Is this accurate?

If the Elohim of Israel is a trinity of three persons, what about the elohim of the nations?

Judges 11:24 calls the pagan deity Chemosh by the term elohim, “a god.” Judges 8:33 refers to Baa-berith, who also is called elohim.

Judges 16:23 designates the famous god of the Philistines, Dagon, as elohim. Baal-zebub was a god of Ekron, and 2 Kings 1:2-3 calls him elohim. Nisroch, a god of Assyria, is referred to as elohim in 2 Kings 19:37.

In 1 Kings 11:5 the writer records that “Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians.”

This example is worthy of special note because the term “Ashtoreth” has the suffix -eth, the regular Hebrew ending for a singular feminine noun. And yet this goddess is called none other than elohim—a masculine plural noun in spelling!

Here is our question: Were these pagan gods trinities? Chemosh was an elohim, but was he a trinity of three persons?

Dagon was an elohim; was he a trinity? The goddess Ashtoreth was an elohim was she a deity of three persons? Each pagan deity was known individually as an elohim, but it surely was not considered to be a trinity of three divine persons.

“For Yahweh, He is Elohim; and there is no other beside Him” (Deut. 4:35

            THERE IS ONE EL

If the term Elohim would imply a plurality of persons in the Godhead, then that Godhead would be composed of more than one El—since El is the abbreviated singular form of Elohim.

But the Scriptures show conclusively that there is but one El, Yahweh Himself.

King David praised Yahweh by acknowledging that “the El of Israel … gives power and strength to His people” (Psalm 68:35).

Several passages in Isaiah shine forth with the glory of El, the Mighty God of Israel. Through this prophet, Yahweh proclaimed:

·         “Remember the former things of old, For I am El, and there is no other;” (Isaiah 46:9)

·         “Look to Me, and be saved.…
For I am El, and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:22)

·         “… I am He. Before Me no El was formed; nor shall there be any after Me.” (Isaiah 43:10)

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Clearly, the God of the Hebrew Scriptures is one Mighty God—one El—not two or three.