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• Jer 10:10 . . Jehovah is in truth God. He is the living god.
The Hebrew word for "living" in that passage is chay (khah'-ee) which first
appears in the Bible at Gen 1:20 where it speaks of aqua life and winged life.
Then it appears at Gen 1:24 where it speaks of life on land. It appears again
at Gen 2:7 where it speaks of human life and again at Gen 8:1 speaking of
all life aboard Noah's ark.
Flora life is never spoken of as chay. So I think we can limit the kind of life
spoken of by chay as conscious existence; viz: sentient, self-aware life.
Jehovah is called the living god something like fifteen times in the Old
Testament, and fifteen more times in the New.
I'm unaware of any other gods in the whole Bible identified as living gods;
not even the people of Psalm 82 to whom God said "You are gods". (Those
gods are described as mortal; so they fail to qualify as living gods.)
Because of that; I think it safe to conclude that no other god is a living god.
In other words: labeling Jehovah as the living god is a way of saying He is
the only god that's perpetual, i.e. He always was, always is, and always shall
be. This has some serious ramifications because when speaking of Christ,
the Bible says:
• Col 2:9 . . It is in him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells
bodily.
The Greek word for "divine quality" is theótes (theh-ot'-ace) which means:
divinity
Seeing as how theótes is modified by the Greek definite article "ho" then
what we're looking at here in Col 2:9 isn't nondescript divinity, but rather
the divinity. In other words: we're looking at all the fullness of the divinity of
the living god.
Just about everybody on both sides of the aisle agrees that the Word spoken
of at John 1:1 is a god. However: the Word isn't just any god; no, not when
all fullness of the divinity of the living god dwells in the Word; meaning of
course that the life that's in the Word always was, always is, and always
shall be, viz: the Word is a living god.
• John 5:26 . . For just as the Father has life in himself, so He has granted
also to the Son to have life in himself.
When the Father granted the Son to have life in himself just as the Father
has life in Himself, things got a bit complicated because unless Jehovah and
the Word are somehow different names for the same personage; there is
now a surplus of living gods out there.
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• Jer 10:10 . . Jehovah is in truth God. He is the living god.
The Hebrew word for "living" in that passage is chay (khah'-ee) which first
appears in the Bible at Gen 1:20 where it speaks of aqua life and winged life.
Then it appears at Gen 1:24 where it speaks of life on land. It appears again
at Gen 2:7 where it speaks of human life and again at Gen 8:1 speaking of
all life aboard Noah's ark.
Flora life is never spoken of as chay. So I think we can limit the kind of life
spoken of by chay as conscious existence; viz: sentient, self-aware life.
Jehovah is called the living god something like fifteen times in the Old
Testament, and fifteen more times in the New.
I'm unaware of any other gods in the whole Bible identified as living gods;
not even the people of Psalm 82 to whom God said "You are gods". (Those
gods are described as mortal; so they fail to qualify as living gods.)
Because of that; I think it safe to conclude that no other god is a living god.
In other words: labeling Jehovah as the living god is a way of saying He is
the only god that's perpetual, i.e. He always was, always is, and always shall
be. This has some serious ramifications because when speaking of Christ,
the Bible says:
• Col 2:9 . . It is in him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells
bodily.
The Greek word for "divine quality" is theótes (theh-ot'-ace) which means:
divinity
Seeing as how theótes is modified by the Greek definite article "ho" then
what we're looking at here in Col 2:9 isn't nondescript divinity, but rather
the divinity. In other words: we're looking at all the fullness of the divinity of
the living god.
Just about everybody on both sides of the aisle agrees that the Word spoken
of at John 1:1 is a god. However: the Word isn't just any god; no, not when
all fullness of the divinity of the living god dwells in the Word; meaning of
course that the life that's in the Word always was, always is, and always
shall be, viz: the Word is a living god.
• John 5:26 . . For just as the Father has life in himself, so He has granted
also to the Son to have life in himself.
When the Father granted the Son to have life in himself just as the Father
has life in Himself, things got a bit complicated because unless Jehovah and
the Word are somehow different names for the same personage; there is
now a surplus of living gods out there.
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