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The word Elohim is a female word Eloha with the male -im ending. Thus Elohim is a plural word covering both genders
No.... Elohim is plural of elohei ( pronounced elohay), not elohah. Both elohei, and elohim are certainly masculine, because all verbs associated with them are masculine. The feminine component is shechinah which is the divine presence which is dwelling.
Thus Anu means heavenly being - coming into the Kabbalah as Ain.
Ain means "NOT". It is NOT a heavenly being. It is NOT a god. No matter what word is chosen, It is NOT with only one exception which is itself. It doesn't do anything, with only one exception which is negation.
Eloha seems to derive from the Sumerian Ilu.
No.... you're mixing all of these up. The closest analogue is Ail to IL. Aleph-Lamed. Elohei is different. Aleph-Lamed-Hei-Yud.
ויאמר אנכי אלהי אביך אלהי אברהם אלהי יצחק ואלהי יעקב ויסתר משה פניו כי ירא מהביט אל־האלהים׃
And he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
This comes into the Hebrew tradition as El Elyon and is translated as The Most High.
In the hebrew tradition, YHVH is The Most High. Abraham ( at that time Abram ) corrects malchi-tzedek.
ומלכי־צדק מלך שלם הוציא לחם ויין והוא כהן לאל עליון׃
And Melchizedek king of Shalem brought forth bread and wine; and he was the priest of the אל עליו ("most high God").
ויברכהו ויאמר ברוך אברם לאל עליון קנה שמים וארץ׃
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of אל עליו ("the most high God"), possessor of heaven and earth;
ויאמר אברם אל־מלך סדם הרמתי ידי אל־יהוה אל עליון קנה שמים וארץ׃
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to יהוה אל עליון ( "the Lord, the most high God" ) , the possessor of heaven and earth,
And Melchizedek king of Shalem brought forth bread and wine; and he was the priest of the אל עליו ("most high God").
ויברכהו ויאמר ברוך אברם לאל עליון קנה שמים וארץ׃
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of אל עליו ("the most high God"), possessor of heaven and earth;
ויאמר אברם אל־מלך סדם הרמתי ידי אל־יהוה אל עליון קנה שמים וארץ׃
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to יהוה אל עליון ( "the Lord, the most high God" ) , the possessor of heaven and earth,
See the difference? The other nations had their "most high god". Malchi-tzedek is tying to include Abram in that. Abram corrected it.... just as I am correcting you.
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You ARE right in hinting, though, that the Arabic "Allah" is related to the Hebrews' "Elohim" (as to "El' generally.)
First, God is Islam is certainly the same God in Judaism. Second The name of God aleph-lamed is pronounced Ail, not El. El in hebrew is a preposition. Ail is the 2 dots under the aleph. Ail is a name which is expresses a one-to-one relationship with each and everything in creation. The two-dots under the aleph, the aleph itself which is two dots reflected in a sort of yin-yang, and the lamed which is connecting upwards. There is a similar derivation that can be made regarding the vocalization. The name is often associated with chesed, which expresses itself as "love".
Elohei and Elohim are completely different. Arguably opposite. Elohim is gevurah which expresses itself as strict justice. Elohei begins as a relationship, (the aleph), and it connects up, (the lamed), but the hand of god, (hei), comes down, and restricts, the (yud). There's other ways to derive this idea that elohim = strict-justice. But the main problem is, people don't actually know how to read and prnounce hebrew, so, the names get smooshed together and confused.
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The universe began to exist.
Ultimately this is the fault with the kalam argument. While it's true that that the universe had a beginning, the singularity prior to it does not technically have a beginning. If the singularity includes time-and-space, then there is no prior to the singularity. Because of this, there is a hard limit to material cosmology.
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