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  • From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Oneness VS Trinity
  • Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:18:08 -0700

James:

While I am loathe to get into a theological argument, the strict
linguistic meaning of "one" in Hebrew is an argument neither for nor
against the trinitarian understanding of God. I agree with you that
the argument that 'echad' refers to a compound one is not supportable,
but the concept that God is a compound one is not based on this word,
rather on many other verses in both Tanakh and New Testament.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 8/24/06, someone angel <unkangel AT yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello Sir!

Echad (one)
It is customary for some Binitarians and most evangelical Trinitarians (especially Messianics) to propose that the Hebrew word for one, the numeral
one (echad), is really "compound one." This is a clever device which confuses logical thought. Echad occurs some 960 times in the Hebrew
Bible, and it is the numeral "one." It is a numeral adjective when it modifies a noun. "One day," "one person," etc.
Echad is the ordinary cardinal number, "one." Eleven in Hebrew is ten and one. Abraham "was only one," said Ezekiel 33:24
(NASU), "only one man" (NIV). .........

Sincerely,
James




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