We have seen that Scripture does not attempt to prove the existence of God, but

teaches that they that come to God must believe that "He is".

We take a step forward in our study when we learn from John 4: 24 that "God is

Spirit", and from the first epistle of John that this God is both "light" and "love". We

now go back to the Hebrew revelation of God to see how all fits together. The two great

names of God revealed in the O.T. generally translated "God" and "Lord" are Elohim and

Jehovah. The relationship of these titles to the invisible God Who is Spirit, and to the

Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, we seek to show in this article, and first of

all by means of the following diagrammatic disposition of the subject.

God, Who is Spirit, has two great all-embracive attributes. He is "Light" and He is

"Love". These two attributes are associated with the two great names under which God

has made Himself known, "Elohim" and "Jehovah". Both the attributes and the names

are gathered up once more in the lower realm of the flesh, and are found in Emmanuel,

God with us, God manifest in the flesh.

In other articles we have demonstrated that every attribute ascribed to God in the

Scriptures is also ascribed to the Lord Jesus Christ, with the one obvious exception,

namely, that of invisibility. We do not intend traversing that ground again here, but

propose an examination of the two great titles under which the invisible God has made

Himself known to man through the Word, Elohim and Jehovah.

The reader will recognize in the word Elohim the plural form "im" occurring in other

well-known words as "Cherubim", etc. Although the word is plural, and should naturally

take a plural verb, we nevertheless find in a number of occurrences that the verb used is

in the singular. This is the case in Gen. 1: 1, where "created" (bara) is the third person,

masculine singular perfect of the verb "to create". To leave the matter here, however,

would be to state but half the truth, and consequently to state a falsehood. Elohim is also

followed by verbs in the plural as may be seen in Gen. 1: 26:--