Jon Collins

Or in the words of Deuteronomy 30, I am your life.

Yeah, that's right.

And in a way, that reflects back to the Garden of Eden.

God gives these trees as a gift, right, of the vehicle of life.

But then there's that one tree that is said mysteriously to convey eternal life, the tree of life.

And you're like, but only God has unending infinite life.

This tree becomes like this vehicle of that infinite life.

So the tree isn't your life.

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.