What Is The Trinity? (Crucial Questions, #10)

by R.C. Sproul

while the name Elohim has a plural ending, it always appears with singular verb forms.

But the Hebrew indicates that when God says “before me,” He is saying, “In My presence.”

heresy historically has forced the church to be precise, to define its doctrines and differentiate truth from falsehood.

The idea was that the controversy could be avoided and division healed by using a formula that was intentionally ambiguous, a statement that could be interpreted in radically different ways.