Elohim

I thought this meant gods, as in more than one. The correct Hebrew translation of Genesis's opening verse goes something like "In the beginning, the gods created the earth and the objects in the sky." Later Yaweh, a mischievous god, goes on to try to force all worship to him, and is punished by Isthar in the supposed ancient Sumerian account.

This is psuedo-correct. From my recollection, 'Elo' is a masculine word meaning 'god' while 'im' is a feminine ending denoting plural. From the best of my knowledge this is a special case word and is indeed singular in the same sense that human royals (and other pretentious people) use the pronoun "we" for a first person singular pronoun.

The Israelites see Yaweh as the god who was willing to care about them, and while they believed in the existence of others, they worshiped only him. Elohim might also have something to do with El Shaddai, a Babylonian war god. Unfortunately, old religions are taken apart and destroyed by the ones that succeed them, so any definite answer is lost. I, however, will go out on a limb and say that every religion today, save for perhaps the tribal ones, are distortions of previous ones. Hinduism shouldn't have a caste system, Christianity isn't about televangelism, Islam shouldn't be about bombing and killing, etc.

"My command is to love one another."-God

"What? Use your name for domination of other humans"-human

"What!? Are you even paying attention"-God

I suspect this was the typical conversation between us and divinity, which is why the heavens speak to us no more.


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