ABSTRACT
The Christian concept of God naturally originates with the Bible, as a source of revelation. Scholars have claimed to see a development of the idea of God within the Old Testament (the Jewish Bible). There are passages which seem to suggest the existence of many gods, with Yahweh as the tribal deity of the Hebrews, one god among the many gods of the surrounding peoples: ‘God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgement’ (Ps. 82:1). Yet there is no doubt that, even if there was a development of this sort, God is primarily seen in the Bible as the ‘creator of heaven and earth’. So the first chapter of Genesis stresses that God created both heaven and earth—the sun, stars and all living things. There is no room for any other God, where there is one creator: ‘To the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it’ (Deut. 10:14).
