If i applied your same flawed reasoning that since Jehovah alone created the world to the above then, the people who actually punished Edom are also YHWH, so to are Moses and the Angel that led Isreal through the wilderness, as well as the builders of the cities of Israel since Jehovah alone was the one who also did those things just mentioned. The fact that your reasoning is flawed is basic to see!
What you're doing is saying that all the times that Jehovah says "alone" in any verse that He means the same thing, regardless of context. That's not what my argument here is. I was talking specifically about the act of creating, which never can be applied to anyone other than YHWH. He created all that there is. He is eternal.
Now, maybe you are saying that YHWH (whom you think is just the Father), and a separate being, the pre-incarnate Jesus, are eternal. Is that what you believe?
Let's look at some of the creating verses in context....
Genesis 1:1-27 (NASB)
1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [SUP]2 [/SUP]The earth was [SUP][
a][/SUP]formless and void, and darkness was over the [SUP][
b][/SUP]surface of the deep, and
the Spirit of God was [SUP][c][/SUP]moving over the [SUP][d][/SUP]surface of the waters. [SUP]3 [/SUP]
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. [SUP]4 [/SUP]God saw that the light was good; and
God separated the light from the darkness. [SUP]5 [/SUP]God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]
Then God said, “Let there be [SUP][
e][/SUP]an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” [SUP]7 [/SUP]
God made the [SUP][f][/SUP]expanse, and separated the waters which were below the [SUP][
g][/SUP]expanse from the waters which were above the [SUP][
h][/SUP]expanse; and it was so. [SUP]8 [/SUP]God called the [SUP][
i][/SUP]expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]
Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”;
and it was so. [SUP]10 [/SUP]God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. [SUP]11 [/SUP]
Then God said, “Let the earth sprout [SUP][
j][/SUP]vegetation, [SUP][
k][/SUP]plants yielding seed,
and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after [SUP][
l][/SUP]their kind [SUP][
m][/SUP]with seed in them”;
and it was so. [SUP]12 [/SUP]The earth brought forth [SUP][
n][/SUP]vegetation, [SUP][
o][/SUP]plants yielding seed after [SUP][
p][/SUP]their kind, and trees bearing fruit [SUP][
q][/SUP]with seed in them, after [SUP][
r][/SUP]their kind; and God saw that it was good. [SUP]13 [/SUP]There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]
Then God said, “Let there be [SUP][
s][/SUP]lights in the [SUP][
t][/SUP]expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; [SUP]15 [/SUP]and let them be for [SUP][
u][/SUP]lights in the [SUP][
v][/SUP]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”;
and it was so. [SUP]16[/SUP]
God made the two [SUP][
w][/SUP]great lights, the greater [SUP][
x][/SUP]light [SUP][
y][/SUP]to govern the day, and the lesser [SUP][
z][/SUP]light [SUP][
aa][/SUP]to govern the night;
He made the stars also. [SUP]17 [/SUP]
God placed them in the [SUP][ab][/SUP]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, [SUP]18 [/SUP]and [SUP][
ac][/SUP]to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. [SUP]19 [/SUP]There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
[SUP]20[/SUP]
Then God said, “Let the waters [SUP][
ad][/SUP]teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth [SUP][
ae][/SUP]in the open [SUP][
af][/SUP]expanse of the heavens.” [SUP]21 [/SUP]
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. [SUP]22 [/SUP]God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” [SUP]23 [/SUP]There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after [SUP][
ag][/SUP]their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after [SUP][
ah][/SUP]their kind”; and it was so. [SUP]25 [/SUP]God made the beasts of the earth after [SUP][
ai][/SUP]their kind, and the cattle after [SUP][
aj][/SUP]their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]
Then God said, “
Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [SUP][
ak][/SUP]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” [SUP]27[/SUP]
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 2:1-9 (NASB)
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. [SUP]2 [/SUP]By the seventh day
God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day
from all His work which He had done. [SUP]3 [/SUP]Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it
He rested from all His work which God had created [SUP][a][/SUP]and made.
[SUP]4 [/SUP][SUP][
b][/SUP]This is the account of the heavens and the earth
when they were created, in the day that
the LORD God made earth and heaven. [SUP]5 [/SUP]Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to [SUP][
c][/SUP]cultivate the ground. [SUP]6 [/SUP]But a [SUP][
d][/SUP]mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole [SUP][
e][/SUP]surface of the ground. [SUP]7 [/SUP]
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living [SUP][f][/SUP]being. [SUP]8 [/SUP]
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. [SUP]9 [/SUP]
Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
There was was no one else who created accept for the one and only God. Yes, He does talk within Himself, but it is obvious that He is talking within Himself.....because we are created in God's image. We aren't created in God's image and someone else's image. It is God who created us.
John 1:1-3 (NASB)
1
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [SUP]2 [/SUP][SUP][
a][/SUP]He was in the beginning with God. [SUP]3 [/SUP]
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
Colossians 1:15-20 (NASB)
[SUP]15 [/SUP][SUP][
w][/SUP]He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. [SUP]16[/SUP]
For [SUP][x][/SUP]by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. [SUP]17 [/SUP]He [SUP][
y][/SUP]is before all things, and
in Him all things [SUP][z][/SUP]hold together. [SUP]18 [/SUP]He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. [SUP]19 [/SUP]For [SUP][
aa][/SUP]it was the
Father’s good pleasure for all the [SUP][
ab][/SUP]fullness to dwell in Him, [SUP]20 [/SUP]and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him,
I say, whether things on earth or things in [SUP][
ac][/SUP]heaven.
Again, there is no one else there but God in the creation accounts of Genesis. He did all the creating. So if Jesus is the Word, and is God, then He also has to be YHWH.