Eil Shaddai, God Almighty: the Lost God of Israel
I do not say this to hurt or offend Christians or Jews. It is meant to be enlightening. You should be upset with someone else if you have been defrauded by a dualistic worldview, a world and a God THAT DO NOT EXIST. Dude, you have been robbed! God and the world are non-dual.
In translating the ancient Aramaic into English, Victor Alexander (v-a.com) has to rewrite his Aramaic dictionary in places because he knows, "that isn't what the word means." He has also recovered words in the scriptures that have changed, or in one case . . . disappeared! Such is the word Eil (pronounced 'eel').
Eil first appears in God's revelation to Abram in Genesis 17: 1: "I am the Eil, the Almighty. Worship before me and be without fault" (Alexander). This is the change of Abram's name (nature) to Abraham (Merciful Father -- the God of Love), the promise of Isaac's birth by Sarah, the promise of Canaan, and the covenant of circumcision. In places where the Hebrew uses El to signify God, the original word was Eil.
Eil also appears in Jesus' proclamation from the cross in Mark 15: 34: "Eil, Eil, l'manna shwiqtani," "(My) Eil, (my) Eil, for this destiny you have appointed me” (Alexander; parentheses in the original).
Reading Alexander's discussion on Eil and El, I thought it was certainly a mere matter of dialect: 'Eil' is clearly pronounced very closely to 'El'. El must simply be the Hebrew way of saying Eil. But that is not the matter. Eil has been assassinated. El does not mean the same as Eil!
Victor says that Eil means "He is" in the absolute sense. I was pretty sure that YHWH also means "He is" in the absolute sense so I went to my Strong's Hebrew Dictionary to figure it out. I pointed out to Vic in his forum (http://www.aramaic-bible.net/blog/?p=10#comment-68) that El is number 410 in Strong's, meaning strength; from #325, to be strong; which proceeds from #193, to twist (to make strong). The strengthening of twisting three cords together is a great illustration of the triune nature of God, where the three "faces" work together. Where Eil was used in Aramaic, a word for strength is in Hebrew.
On the other hand, if Eil means 'He is', the word for 'to be' (= is, am, was, became, become) in Hebrew is hayah, number 1961 in Strong's (I note the idea of transition is inherent in hayah). God’s eternal nature is YHWH, number 3068, which also means 'He is'. I suspect that YHWH means 'He is' because it signifies the action of God. If an event demonstrates the deliberate exercise of God's strength, then he must certainly be. Like Neville Goddard said of prayer and imagining, "If it works, you have found Him."
I also pointed out that "He is" does not fit well inserted into either Genesis 17: 1, "I am the He is, the Almighty," or Mark 15: 34, "My He is, my He is, for this destiny . . . " But I was still missing the point.
Eil is what God really is; it is the revelation of his real nature. El, on the other hand, is a bogus God because it presents a bogus nature of God. There is no such thing as an El, except for the Hebrew demonstrative particle 'these.' El as God is a made up word substituted for Eil; it is a fraud, a wooden nickel. And what El is thought to be from its implication is misleading and corrupting. El was substituted in lieu of Eil to disassociate the Truth from the scriptures.
Can I say that? Yes, because there is no God but God, and the original revelation of God to Moses in Exodus was that of Eil. El is a made up switcheroo, a deception. Eil is the concept of God we were supposed to get when we believed in God. We were supposed to sense and know Eil. ARE supposed to.
How and why? What we think of El is radically different from what Eil IS. What do you think when you read, "I am El Shaddai" -- "I am God Almighty"? You think of a God that is all powerful, all knowing, capable of anything, omnipotent, a Savior and provider. But you ALSO think of God as being SEPARATE from creation, aloof and distant, apart, distinctly different, wholly other -- involved but not touching -- an objectively Big Shining-Light Fellow With Long Hair who is sitting in a chair in a far away Heaven, a being who has no actual contact with us -- something we will ever worship but will never be. You think DIVISION, DISTANCE, and SEPARATENESS. This disassociation of God from us is THE GREAT LIE. It is the big deception. Our highest hope for God in this case is that he may become "immanent" -- still wholly separate and other, but at least near enough to do us some good.
The message Moses put in God's revelation in Genesis was that which he learned in Exodus: Eil, the Almighty, "God," is the Manifestation of the Ineffable, and they are not apart. Being God's manifestation is as close as we are going to get, and as we are part and parcel to him, there is no distance between ourselves and God. We are God in the process of manifesting. The mechanism of His becoming is our life here in this sphere of death. He is the One who has become everything by imagining, and everything is IN him and IS him -- including us. God is a package deal: everything -- batteries and all -- is included. "There ain't nothing but Him."
Changing Eil to El thus changes what the Messiah is. With El, the messiah is separate Son of God, an outside superman, a remote savior "over there." With Eil, the Messiah is God inside us -- God's presence we simply are not aware of. The baptism in the Holy Spirit is not his coming from some outside location, but the blossoming of awareness, a big, "Yes, I am here inside, and powerful."
It isn't that we are God; it is that there is no thing that isn't. THAT is what Moses was getting at. There is no separation, no division, no distance to God. He has become us and is us, and through us he is becoming the perfect and complete Manifestation his own emanation. He is the farm, and we are the crop.
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Mr. Alexander has restored the name Eil to Genesis 17: 1 and Mark 15: 34 among other places. In his comments (v-a.com/bible/), Alexander has said:
In translating the ancient Aramaic into English, Victor Alexander (v-a.com) has to rewrite his Aramaic dictionary in places because he knows, "that isn't what the word means." He has also recovered words in the scriptures that have changed, or in one case . . . disappeared! Such is the word Eil (pronounced 'eel').
Eil first appears in God's revelation to Abram in Genesis 17: 1: "I am the Eil, the Almighty. Worship before me and be without fault" (Alexander). This is the change of Abram's name (nature) to Abraham (Merciful Father -- the God of Love), the promise of Isaac's birth by Sarah, the promise of Canaan, and the covenant of circumcision. In places where the Hebrew uses El to signify God, the original word was Eil.
Eil also appears in Jesus' proclamation from the cross in Mark 15: 34: "Eil, Eil, l'manna shwiqtani," "(My) Eil, (my) Eil, for this destiny you have appointed me” (Alexander; parentheses in the original).
Reading Alexander's discussion on Eil and El, I thought it was certainly a mere matter of dialect: 'Eil' is clearly pronounced very closely to 'El'. El must simply be the Hebrew way of saying Eil. But that is not the matter. Eil has been assassinated. El does not mean the same as Eil!
Victor says that Eil means "He is" in the absolute sense. I was pretty sure that YHWH also means "He is" in the absolute sense so I went to my Strong's Hebrew Dictionary to figure it out. I pointed out to Vic in his forum (http://www.aramaic-bible.net/blog/?p=10#comment-68) that El is number 410 in Strong's, meaning strength; from #325, to be strong; which proceeds from #193, to twist (to make strong). The strengthening of twisting three cords together is a great illustration of the triune nature of God, where the three "faces" work together. Where Eil was used in Aramaic, a word for strength is in Hebrew.
On the other hand, if Eil means 'He is', the word for 'to be' (= is, am, was, became, become) in Hebrew is hayah, number 1961 in Strong's (I note the idea of transition is inherent in hayah). God’s eternal nature is YHWH, number 3068, which also means 'He is'. I suspect that YHWH means 'He is' because it signifies the action of God. If an event demonstrates the deliberate exercise of God's strength, then he must certainly be. Like Neville Goddard said of prayer and imagining, "If it works, you have found Him."
I also pointed out that "He is" does not fit well inserted into either Genesis 17: 1, "I am the He is, the Almighty," or Mark 15: 34, "My He is, my He is, for this destiny . . . " But I was still missing the point.
Eil is what God really is; it is the revelation of his real nature. El, on the other hand, is a bogus God because it presents a bogus nature of God. There is no such thing as an El, except for the Hebrew demonstrative particle 'these.' El as God is a made up word substituted for Eil; it is a fraud, a wooden nickel. And what El is thought to be from its implication is misleading and corrupting. El was substituted in lieu of Eil to disassociate the Truth from the scriptures.
Can I say that? Yes, because there is no God but God, and the original revelation of God to Moses in Exodus was that of Eil. El is a made up switcheroo, a deception. Eil is the concept of God we were supposed to get when we believed in God. We were supposed to sense and know Eil. ARE supposed to.
How and why? What we think of El is radically different from what Eil IS. What do you think when you read, "I am El Shaddai" -- "I am God Almighty"? You think of a God that is all powerful, all knowing, capable of anything, omnipotent, a Savior and provider. But you ALSO think of God as being SEPARATE from creation, aloof and distant, apart, distinctly different, wholly other -- involved but not touching -- an objectively Big Shining-Light Fellow With Long Hair who is sitting in a chair in a far away Heaven, a being who has no actual contact with us -- something we will ever worship but will never be. You think DIVISION, DISTANCE, and SEPARATENESS. This disassociation of God from us is THE GREAT LIE. It is the big deception. Our highest hope for God in this case is that he may become "immanent" -- still wholly separate and other, but at least near enough to do us some good.
The message Moses put in God's revelation in Genesis was that which he learned in Exodus: Eil, the Almighty, "God," is the Manifestation of the Ineffable, and they are not apart. Being God's manifestation is as close as we are going to get, and as we are part and parcel to him, there is no distance between ourselves and God. We are God in the process of manifesting. The mechanism of His becoming is our life here in this sphere of death. He is the One who has become everything by imagining, and everything is IN him and IS him -- including us. God is a package deal: everything -- batteries and all -- is included. "There ain't nothing but Him."
Changing Eil to El thus changes what the Messiah is. With El, the messiah is separate Son of God, an outside superman, a remote savior "over there." With Eil, the Messiah is God inside us -- God's presence we simply are not aware of. The baptism in the Holy Spirit is not his coming from some outside location, but the blossoming of awareness, a big, "Yes, I am here inside, and powerful."
It isn't that we are God; it is that there is no thing that isn't. THAT is what Moses was getting at. There is no separation, no division, no distance to God. He has become us and is us, and through us he is becoming the perfect and complete Manifestation his own emanation. He is the farm, and we are the crop.
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Mr. Alexander has restored the name Eil to Genesis 17: 1 and Mark 15: 34 among other places. In his comments (v-a.com/bible/), Alexander has said:
"The hallmarks of this translation are:
"(1) Restoring the name of Eil. Eil is the name of the Father that Eashoa (Jesus) used from the Cross, when He declared: 'Eil, Eil, l'manna shwiqtani.' Eil is the correct translation. ('El' is the article 'the' and therefore this leads to error in all the translations that don't transliterate the name of Eil correctly.) Only the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures carry the correct name of 'Eil.' This is the supreme name of the Eternal Creator of the Universe. It appears for the first time in Genesis 17:1 as Eil Shaddai (Eil the Almighty.) If the modern day Hebrew language revivalists do not accept the name of Eil as being the true name that appears in Genesis 17:1, how can they claim that the Old Testament was originated in Hebrew? (Google El-Shaddai and you will find that all the websites say 'El' is a pagan god of the Canaanite or Ugaritic religion)."posted by Daniel C. Branham-Steele at
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