This doesn’t mean God (elohim) is equal in nature or status to angels (elohim). It’s just a general Hebrew word that apply to both types of spiritual beings. As Dr. Heiser has said: Yahweh is an elohim, but no other elohim are Yahweh…. But why refer to spiritual beings as elohim? The association is not difficult to understand, actually. Since God is a spirit, and in fact the supreme spirit, and he is “father of all spirits” (Heb. 12:9), then the realm of the spirits is “where God lives.” The beings who belong to the spirit realm are therefore “divine.” The best word to capture that conception
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