Page 14 - A Name You Can Trust

6 Your First Impression of God...Elohim

The heathen who have never met Elohim - those

who have never placed their faith in the living God -
have devised a very complicated system of deity. It was
inconceivable to a heathen, an unbeliever, that one
being could embody all the traits necessary to meet
every physical need so they had all these deities

created to meet every need.

The goddess of love

The sun god

The moon god

The god of the earth

The god of the sea
God is saying, by the name Elohim, I Am the one

and only God of the universe. In fact, I once saw a sign
that expresses it this way. “There is only one God and
you are not Him!” Now I have met some who thought

they were God and tried to act like God, but there is
only One and none of us are Him.
He also embraces the Trinity which is necessary to
meet all your spiritual needs. Elohim reflects a Triune
God. He is the three in One.

God the Father - God the Son - and God the Holy Spirit

He meets every spiritual need. Think of it like this:
We need rules - so God the Father is the Judge and
Justifier. We’ve broken those rules - so we need a
Redeemer. He died on the Cross for our sin; was