There is a stunning passage in Hebrews 7:1-3 that requires a view vastly different than any traditional xstian accepts. It reads in the NIV: "This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.” 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever."
Now what is stunning is that it insists that Melchizedek, the person who interacted with Abraham, is actually uncreated. This passage emphasizes this point in multiple ways. Melchizedek is "without father or mother" ( ἀπάτωρ, ἀμήτωρ) he has no genealogy (ἀγενεαλόγητος) meaning that his origin is not from human generation, and he is "without beginning of days" (μήτε ἀρχὴν ἡμερῶν) meaning essentially that he is backwardly eternal in the past without beginning.
Add to this the fact that in the Dead Sea Scrolls Melchizedek is called "elohim" and even substitutes Melchizedek for Yahweh quoting Isaiah 61:2. (11Q Melchizedek).
Now think about it. Melchizedek is a human but he is uncreated. He has eternal existence without beginning or end. He is divine in a strong sense. It seems to vindicate the assertions in the Book of Abraham that "yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal." Joseph Smith uses the Hebrew term עוֹלָם to explain that something is uncreated. In fact, עוֹלָם means eternal (in a temporal sense), everlasting, forever, perpetual
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