Re: [TruthTalk] The Trinity

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I did a brief word search on "gods" using the Online Bible. The context of those scriptures is that the word "gods" refers to demons, lifeless idols, or people who will perish off the earth as in Jer 10:11 and Ps 82. That hardly makes a case for there being other gods floating around out there.        It's obvious from all the scriptures which I just now looked at (some 200 plus) that "gods" when used in reference to people does not mean a powerful spiritual entity as we think of God. I believe that it likely means two things: we are each our own god in as much as we are self-centered and put ourselves first, and we have become like gods, as did Adam and Eve, because we know good and evil.        Another thought occured to me as I read Ps 97:9 (RSV) "For thou, O LORD, art most high over all the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods." If I understand lds-ism correctly, they say that God the Father was once a man like us. If this is true, there must have been another god who was the big kahuna when our Father was supposedly still a man, yet Ps 97 says that He is above all gods. How can He be above the god(s) who came before Him (assuming that lds-ism is correct)?   vincent j. fulton   On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:10:40 -0800 Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:   The problem in Mormonism is that you open up again the Roman and Greek idea of there being many gods, which I believe would be contrary to Scripture and the cherished teaching of Scripture that there is only one God. DAVEH:  I don't see it that way at all........Paul pretty well explained it in 1Cor  8:5-6......   For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.