In an attempt to refute LDS theology on the "plurality of the Gods," one very errant Evangelical apologists wrote:
Psalm 110:1 states, “The LORD [Yahweh] said unto my Lord [Adonai], Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” Is the writer of Psalms now trying to describe another divine person outside of Yahweh? I think not. Trinitarian theology does acknowledge that manifestations of the persons of the Godhead occurred throughout the Old Testament. These manifestations do not separate the one true God, nor does plurality verbiage mandate a genre of polytheism. (Matthew A. Paulson, Breaking the Mormon Code: A Critique of Mormon Scholarship Regarding Classical Christian Theology and the Book of Mormon [Livermore, Calif.: WingSpan Press, 2006, 2009], 93)
This is simply wrong; Psa 110:1 does not have Yahweh speaking to Adonai, but Yahweh speaking to Adoni. The Hebrew reads:
The Hebrew of this verse reads:
נְאֻם יְהוָה לַאדֹנִי שֵׁב לִימִינִי עַד־אָשִׁית אֹיְבֶיךָ הֲדֹם לְרַגְלֶיךָ
YHWH says to my lord: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet
In this verse, one Lord (YHWH) speaks (by oracle [that is the nuance of the Hebrew verb]) to “adoni” (“my adon” or “my lord”), a numerically distinct lord to the first Lord, YHWH. On the vocalisation of Psa 110:1, and the mistakes made therein by many Trinitarian apologists, see Jaco Van Zyl, "Psalm 110:1 and the Status of the Second Lord--Trinitarian Arguments Challenged," in An E-Journal from the Radical Reformation: A Testimony to Biblical Unitarianism, winter/spring 2012, pp. 51-60 (note: I disagree with the author's Christology [he is a "Biblical Unitarian" [Socinian], but he is correct in arguing that the proper vocalisation is adoni not adonai and that this verse blows Trinitarian theology out of the water).
To see the theological implications of this verse, especially in light of its usage in the New Testament, including Jesus' own use of this verse to support his ministry coupled with the use of Deut 6:4 in Mark 12, see:
Refuting Jeff Durbin on "Mormonism"
To see the theological implications of this verse, especially in light of its usage in the New Testament, including Jesus' own use of this verse to support his ministry coupled with the use of Deut 6:4 in Mark 12, see:
Refuting Jeff Durbin on "Mormonism"
