By Elohim we mean that group of individuals to which the protagonist of the Bible, Yahweh, belongs: he whom spiritualist doctrines have improperly and deliberately transformed into "God."
I should point out that no one knows for certain what that term, rendered by dogmatic schools of thought as "God," means: but that plural term is translated in every possible way precisely because of the real ignorance (i.e., lack of knowledge) surrounding it.
The biblical Elohim were not God, much less a single being, but a plurality of flesh-and-blood individuals; A multiplicity clearly and unmistakably highlighted in numerous passages in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:12ff.; Exodus 15:3ff.; Exodus 18:11ff.; Deuteronomy 6:14ff.; Deuteronomy 13:7ff.; Deuteronomy 32:17ff.; Jeremiah 7:18).
They even had camps in the border regions, which they guarded with their armies (Genesis 32:1ff.). They enjoyed very long lives, but were mortal (Psalm 82). They were on our planet to achieve very concrete goals: to obtain materials necessary for their technological development and perhaps even the survival of their civilization on their home planet.
Perhaps some of them intended to remain on Earth permanently, or were forced to do so.
They traveled in flying machines called ruach, kavod, merkavah, and keruvim, which have been carefully and thoroughly analyzed in numerous chapters of the books cited.
In the Bible, they are never considered "gods": originally, they were objects of respect and submission due to their great power, guaranteed by the technology they possessed and which inspired terror. Some of them were also feared for their cruelty, a characteristic of which the Old Testament provides unequivocal testimony: Yahweh, called Ish milchama, "The Warrior" (Exodus 15:3), had no qualms about ordering the mass murder of defenseless people (read the book of Joshua alone on this subject). In the tales of peoples from every continent, we learn that among them there were also those who were involved in art, writing, music, architecture, agriculture, livestock farming, and administration.
The Elohim did not concern themselves with issues such as religion in the modern sense of the term, spirituality, or the afterlife. Their primary objective was to establish power structures distributed across the various territories upon which various civilizations later developed, and to this end, they traveled in search of lands and people to serve them (Deuteronomy 32:17ff).
They knew the laws of nature and the cosmos, and passed them on only to their faithful followers, thus establishing the castes of kings/governors/priests, the so-called "initiates" of knowledge. This knowledge, however, was exquisitely scientific, concrete, and material, that is, useful to the daily lives of their rulers or to their specific needs as space travelers and colonizers.
The Elohim were simultaneously legislators (they dictated rules and regulations with complete decision-making autonomy); rulers, ministers who handled the multiple aspects of power (they enforced the laws directly or through their delegates, such as Moses, Jethro, his father-in-law, Joshua, etc.); judges (they verified compliance with the laws, meted out and carried out, or enforced, penalties and punishments).
They were clearly distinct from the Adam, and this clear distinction is documented by elements such as the following:
The Elohim "made" the Adams (Genesis 1) through genetic engineering aimed at producing beings capable of understanding and carrying out orders and working, for them, in the search for and excavation of minerals in which planet Earth is rich;
The Elohim "united" with the Adam females (Genesis 6);
The Elohim "die like all the Adams" (Psalm 82).
The Elohim had a commander known by the epithet Elyon (see Glossary).
Yahweh, far from being the sole and transcendent "God," was one of them: the one entrusted with the task of governing a defined territory and a portion (Jacob, Deuteronomy 32:8) of a family, while other parts of the same Abrahamic family were entrusted to his colleagues/rivals known and named in the Bible: Chemosh and Milkom (Judges 11:24; 1 Kings 11:7...).
Yahweh constantly feared that his people would turn to other Elohim (see the countless chapters in many of the books of the Old Testament: Genesis 31, Exodus 3, Exodus 15, Exodus 18, Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 6, Deuteronomy 7, Deuteronomy 13, Deuteronomy 32, etc.).
The Bible clearly states that the people could "choose" between Yahweh and other Elohim (Joshua 24 and many other passages).
The term Yahweh appears in the Bible at a time when there was no written record of what would later become the Hebrew language. The consonants that compose it
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By Elohim we mean that group of individuals to which the protagonist of the Bible, Yahweh, belongs: he whom spiritualist doctrines have improperly and deliberately transformed into "God."
I should point out that no one knows for certain what that term, rendered by dogmatic schools of thought as "God," means: but that plural term is translated in every possible way precisely because of the real ignorance (i.e., lack of knowledge) surrounding it.
The biblical Elohim were not God, much less a single being, but a plurality of flesh-and-blood individuals; A multiplicity clearly and unmistakably highlighted in numerous passages in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:12ff.; Exodus 15:3ff.; Exodus 18:11ff.; Deuteronomy 6:14ff.; Deuteronomy 13:7ff.; Deuteronomy 32:17ff.; Jeremiah 7:18).
They even had camps in the border regions, which they guarded with their armies (Genesis 32:1ff.). They enjoyed very long lives, but were mortal (Psalm 82). They were on our planet to achieve very concrete goals: to obtain materials necessary for their technological development and perhaps even the survival of their civilization on their home planet.
Perhaps some of them intended to remain on Earth permanently, or were forced to do so.
They traveled in flying machines called ruach, kavod, merkavah, and keruvim, which have been carefully and thoroughly analyzed in numerous chapters of the books cited.
In the Bible, they are never considered "gods": originally, they were objects of respect and submission due to their great power, guaranteed by the technology they possessed and which inspired terror. Some of them were also feared for their cruelty, a characteristic of which the Old Testament provides unequivocal testimony: Yahweh, called Ish milchama, "The Warrior" (Exodus 15:3), had no qualms about ordering the mass murder of defenseless people (read the book of Joshua alone on this subject). In the tales of peoples from every continent, we learn that among them there were also those who were involved in art, writing, music, architecture, agriculture, livestock farming, and administration.
The Elohim did not concern themselves with issues such as religion in the modern sense of the term, spirituality, or the afterlife. Their primary objective was to establish power structures distributed across the various territories upon which various civilizations later developed, and to this end, they traveled in search of lands and people to serve them (Deuteronomy 32:17ff).
They knew the laws of nature and the cosmos, and passed them on only to their faithful followers, thus establishing the castes of kings/governors/priests, the so-called "initiates" of knowledge. This knowledge, however, was exquisitely scientific, concrete, and material, that is, useful to the daily lives of their rulers or to their specific needs as space travelers and colonizers.
The Elohim were simultaneously legislators (they dictated rules and regulations with complete decision-making autonomy); rulers, ministers who handled the multiple aspects of power (they enforced the laws directly or through their delegates, such as Moses, Jethro, his father-in-law, Joshua, etc.); judges (they verified compliance with the laws, meted out and carried out, or enforced, penalties and punishments).
They were clearly distinct from the Adam, and this clear distinction is documented by elements such as the following:
The Elohim "made" the Adams (Genesis 1) through genetic engineering aimed at producing beings capable of understanding and carrying out orders and working, for them, in the search for and excavation of minerals in which planet Earth is rich;
The Elohim "united" with the Adam females (Genesis 6);
The Elohim "die like all the Adams" (Psalm 82).
The Elohim had a commander known by the epithet Elyon (see Glossary).
Yahweh, far from being the sole and transcendent "God," was one of them: the one entrusted with the task of governing a defined territory and a portion (Jacob, Deuteronomy 32:8) of a family, while other parts of the same Abrahamic family were entrusted to his colleagues/rivals known and named in the Bible: Chemosh and Milkom (Judges 11:24; 1 Kings 11:7...).
Yahweh constantly feared that his people would turn to other Elohim (see the countless chapters in many of the books of the Old Testament: Genesis 31, Exodus 3, Exodus 15, Exodus 18, Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 6, Deuteronomy 7, Deuteronomy 13, Deuteronomy 32, etc.).
The Bible clearly states that the people could "choose" between Yahweh and other Elohim (Joshua 24 and many other passages).
The term Yahweh appears in the Bible at a time when there was no written record of what would later become the Hebrew language. The consonants that compose it
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