Genesis 18 promotes Trinity?
- HouseFire
- Oct 26, 2022
- 4 min read
This is a small post about Genesis 18, and the topic of: Is God in the flesh?
When God cannot be around sin, how can God do anything listed in this chapter unless God was in the flesh here on Earth eating food and walking etc?
In Genesis 18, I find 3 words with Lord involved.
H3068 יְהֹוָה yehôvâh yeh-ho-vaw' From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069. Total KJV occurrences: 6521
H136 אֲדֹנָי 'ădônây ad-o-noy' An emphatic form of H113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only): - (my) Lord. Total KJV occurrences: 438
H113 אָדֹן אָדוֹן 'âdôn 'âdôn aw-done', aw-done' From an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, that is, controller (human or divine): - lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with “Adoni-”. Total KJV occurrences: 335
You can if you want to, go ahead and get all deep into text and meaning and translations if you like, but we shouldn't have to get all that deep into the words when we can just use the story inside Genesis 18 to see what is being said. For example: Gen 18:1, where it says "Appeared". God "Appeared" to Abraham and Abraham did not die.
Hebrew 12:29 and Duet 4:24 - God is a consuming flame and God cannot be near sin. Now when I say this, I am saying it with the understanding of the "Trinity" Doctrine, for with this Doctrine described in the Bible we can see how God is able to be around sinful creatures and they will not die.
Exodus 33:20 But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”
And many other verses talking about the same thing on how being near God will kill you.
Deuteronomy 5:25 Voice of the Lord kills you?
Deuteronomy 18:16 Voice and great H1419 fire H784 kills you?
Num 17:12-13 WhosoeverH3605 cometh any thing nearH7131 H7131 untoH413 the tabernacleH4908 of the LORDH3068 shall die:H4191 shall we be consumedH8552
Numbers 18:22 The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.
Go and click the link and review each on a case by case and search for context to see what is being said. Does God kill these people or not type argument. I also made a post about this which I might not of touched on every area of concern for this could be an on going process which more study is required to find out the question:
Does God Kill?
Yes God kills, but there is more that can be said about this at a later time. Right now I am just focused on this simple chapter of Genesis 18 which was becoming a topic to someone who rejects this angel as God and says all three are angels and God speaks thru them, and yet angels are seen to reject worship but in Genesis 18, 1 of these angels did not reject worship. Or am I reading the chapter wrong?
Revelation 22:8-9 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things. But he *said to me, “Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God.”
Matthew 4:9-10 and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus *said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”
Luke 4:7-8 Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours.” Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
Romans 1:25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Colossians 2:18 Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
Did The Apostle John Worship Angels?
Strikingly, even the Apostle John found himself almost instinctively worshipping an angel. Yet, as we will see below, the angel corrected him. John writes, “when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, but he said to me, ‘You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God’” (Revelation 22:8-9).
Genesis 18:2 KJV+ And he lift upH5375 his eyesH5869 and looked,H7200 and, lo,H2009 threeH7969 menH376 stoodH5324 byH5921 him: and when he sawH7200 them, he ranH7323 to meetH7125 them from the tent door,H4480 H6607 H168 and bowed himselfH7812 toward the ground,H776
Ok, pictures are a little off topic but still makes a point on how
In Gen 18:2, Abraham, … bowed himselfH7812 to an angel? Hasten to feed these angels/humans? And tried to intercede for those in another town which they said they would destroy if not found 50-40-30-20-10 righteous men, and told Abraham his wife would bear a child.
H7812 שָׁחָה shâchâh shaw-khaw'
A primitive root; to depress, that is, prostrate (especially reflexively in homage to royalty or God): - bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship. Total KJV occurrences: 172
Now we must understand that yes, humans do bow to other humans, this is normal, but Abraham is under the impression that this is God (H3068 יְהֹוָה yehôvâh) with 2 angels, and they did not reject any of this Abraham has done for them. So was Abraham bowing/prostrating to angels or to God?
Perhaps I'll leave it here and pray that any of this information may help in jogging your mind on what is going on inside Genesis 18 and does this help support the Trinity Doctrine on this chapter alone and how we are not, … repeat, … "Not To Worship Angels". And yet, Jesus does not reject worship.
Plz comment if you have any questions on where I might of went wrong or what I might of left out etc etc.
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