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Creation Myths in the Ancient World

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Disadvantages of Divine Names

There are some fairly serious contradictions or discrepancies between these two accounts. Throughout the first creation story, God is referred to by the Hebrew word Elohim. And throughout Genesis 2 and 3, that is the second account, God is called Adonai Elohim (Yahweh) So when you said Adonai a minute ago, you were actually translating Yahweh.

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