Before I begin posting chapters from the Book of Genesis, I would like to clear up some major misconceptions about the Bible that I discovered as I was translating the New Testament.
In Hebrew the word for God is "Al-lo-hiem," or "Elohim." Some people speculate that the name has a plural ending and therefore it's an indication of polytheism. There must be a lot written on the subject, but it's not that hard to figure out if you know about the origins of monotheism. The word "Al-lo-hiem" comes from pictographic writing. Here is the pictograph:
![[Pictograph of Ashur]](/ashurai/ashur-1.GIF)
It represents and means: "Over the flames." An examination of the wings of the pictograph reveals that the wings are flames, in an ordered series of waves. This is the first depiction of God in the earliest form of writing. This language became stylized and is knows as cuneiform. The Ashurai language of Nineveh became known as "Ashurit." It was written in cuneiform and subsequently in the alphabetic form around the 6th Century B.C. The Jewish scholars correctly call this language "Ashurit." The name of God is Ashur. "Ashur" also means "Over the flames." Ashur or Elohim means "Over the flames." Ashur and Elohim are titles. God only has titles, because there never was anyone to name Him. He's eternal. He created time, space and matter. Otherwise nothing would ever exist.
"Elohim" is singular, "flames" is plural, but it's really God that is "Over the flames," that's what the name means, therefore the name of God in Hebrew is really singular.
Another concept in the Bible that's misunderstood is the "Trinity" or that God is Triune. Some people relate this to the above misconception that I've just explained, that Alohiem is plural, but this is wrong as I've explained. God has three manifestations and the three titles that are used in Christianity, "the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit," were always represented by the pictograph of Ashur or Elohim. It's just that people never understood this. To this day people don't understand it. The elements of the pictograph depict the Son in human form, in the bosom of the Father, implied by the sun disc surrounding the image of man, the Creator (the Son and the Father as One,) with the wings of the Holy Spirit, which are flames of fire. On the Son's head are the horns of righteousness or priesthood. These are the major elements of the pictograph. They are consistent with monotheism and the origins of the Scripture.
It is said by detractors of Christianity that nowhere in the Bible there is mention of the word "Trinity." That this is an invention of the Roman church, contrived in subsequent centuries of Christianity in Europe. The word for the Trinity has been consistently mistranslated in the Greek, Latin, English and all other languages. The word exists only in the Ancient Aramaic language and it's designated as "T'lah Qnu-meh," or the Trinity. "T'lah" is three. "Qnu-meh" doesn't exist in any other language. The word was transposed into the Greek language, but the Greeks never understood what it meant, because it's not translated as the Trinity in any of their Bibles or their derivatives.
When the modern churches began translating the Bible in the late 16th Century, they had no knowledge of the cuneiform tablets buried in the ruins of Ashur, Nimrud and Nineveh that contained the early sacred origins of Scriptures. Therefore, they assumed that what they were translating could be modified to suit their purposes. They changed some fundamental concepts and names, such as the Trinity and the names of Jesus and God in the Old Testament.