Jon Collins

God is your life.

And right now God's relating to you through the fruit of this tree.

So eat from that tree and don't eat from the other tree that will kill you.

Anyway, God is your life.

Yeah.

So not having any other Elohim means recognizing there are many... Other forms of life?

Yeah, and in this case there are other spiritual beings to which... Yeah, powers, principalities.

Yeah, real powers that work in God's world, to which God created, to which God has delegated responsibility.

Some of the primary ones, actually we'll talk about them today, were the lights in the sky.

have been viewed as some sort of transcendent, powerful being by most humans for most of human history.

And for the biblical authors, they are really important delegates of God's power.

But they are creatures, not creator.

They are not your life.

They are living beings.

They are not your life.

Yeah.

So that's the first command.

Don't have any other Elohim before me.

The second command just comes...

Hot on the heels of number one.