Elohim, Gods on High

On Wednesday, Professor Griffin mentioned that the Hebrew word "Elohim" is plural, thus denoting a plurality of Gods, or in other words, Heavenly Father and Mother our Queen. This, as usual, got Kathryn and me thinking. How much of the references to God in the scriptures also include the Mother as well as the Father? So, we came up with a hypothesis: perhaps when the scriptures say "God" they mean both Mother and Father, and when they say "Lord God" they solely mean the Father.

This hypothesis seemed to hold up, but then we decided to look at the Hebrew version of the creation of the Earth in Genesis 2. Where it says "Lord God," there's two Hebrew words that's translated from: "Jehovah Elohim." We know that Jehovah is Christ, and Elohim is the Mother and Father, so this could imply a couple things. It could either be that  "Lord God" is Christ and Elohim (the Father and Mother) in unity, or it could be Christ, one of the Elohim. Kathryn and I feel it depends on the context.

Throughout Genesis 1 during the creation of the universe, Elohim is used exclusively. This and the fact  leads us to believe that Elohim may be a general term for supernatural spirits as well as being the term for the Father and Mother. If this is true, then it coincides with the doctrine that Christ was the primary creator, but we also know he did it under the direction of God and with the help from Michael. In other words, "In the beginning, [the Elohim] created the heaven and the earth" (Gen 1:1) together, led by Christ (the Elohim), directed by Heavenly Father and Mother our Queen (the Elohim), with help from the Heavenly Host (the Elohim). A family project, if you will. It wasn't just the Father and Christ as we typically think of it -- though they were the leaders of the project -- others were involved, most importantly our Mother the Queen.

However, when researching the thoughts on this from Hebrew linguists, it appears that the pluralizing of Elo'ah denotes more of an honorific, i.e. "God of gods," rather than there literally being plural gods. Nevertheless, since the Bible is, in fact, divinely inspired, it is incredibly likely that the Lord intended the secondary meaning of plurality to remain. Therefore, even though the writers of the Bible may not have intended it to denote both Father and Mother as the one true Elohim together, we all know God works in mysterious ways and will use His prophets to further His work and truth despite their limited mortal understanding. (Read: He loves puns. Fight me.)

The doctrine of the Mother our Queen is critical, though it isn't widely talked about. It's central to understanding the place of women in the Church and their relation to men. Men and women together are equals, for "neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord," (1 Cor 11:11) and we can see that in the Father and Mother ruling side by side.