R.C. Sproul

The other gods actually are not gods at all.

But because he is higher than the angels, higher than demons, higher than spirits, higher than human beings, because reality and being itself reaches its highest point in the fullness of God, the plural of majesty.

before whom we are called to bow in reverence and in adoration and in obedience is used.

And so Elohim is the creator who out of the fullness of his being moves to make you and me.

He says, let us make man in our image.

for there is nothing to compare with Him.

You have to eat.

You have to drink water.

You have to breathe air.

You have all these needs.

We're all like that.

We're all dependent on external things to keep us alive.

God depends on nothing.

God and God alone has the power to be within himself.

God revealed himself to Moses with his sacred name, Yahweh, which is translated into the English by the phrase, I am who I am.

We've already looked briefly at some of the significance of that name.

But to be honest with you, I think we could spend the next 10 weeks on this name and only, at best, scratch the surface of what's there.

In popular religious language, people frequently make the distinction between human beings and God.

And the distinction is usually articulated as something like this.

We are human beings, but God is the supreme being.