YHWH
We have talked about the gods many spoken of by Paul and Christ and who the gods and judges of the Old Testament were.
But who is the God?
Of course we cannot define an infinite God of Creation with finite words without doing and injustice to the listener to say nothing of God himself.
The Bible uses YHWH which is often translated "LORD", "Yahweh" or "Jehovah" or "Yahuwah"
The Hebrew Biblical word of “YHWH,” revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus is a name consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Hey, Vav, and Hey, and is known as the tetragrammaton. There are other names ascribed to God such as , El, Elohim, Eloah, Elohai, El Shaddai, and and even Tzevaot
God does not need a name. We use names to identify people or things. When Moses asked about what he should call God[1] " And God said unto Moses, I AM[2] THAT [3] I AM[2]: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM[2] hath sent me unto you." Exodus 3:14
To say that He is the I AM is to express the idea that He is the existing one. Scientist examine nature and see patterns in an endless layer of interrelations. They have their theories of Quantum, String, Membrane which all try to make sense out of what the see in Nature. The idea of The God being at the core of space and time along with everything that might be in between may include an idea that there is a Singularity. That Singularity has been defined as, "the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular" but in mathematics and physics that Singularity becomes "a point at which a function takes an infinite value". Thy even theorize that may especially be true "in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole".
Even the "Big Bang" theory includes the idea of a singular source of creation. But a "theory is" at best "a carefully thought-out explanation for observations of the natural world that has been constructed using the scientific method, and which brings together many facts and hypotheses" which by their nature are finite but no matter how far we take the mind it may always imagine something farther which we call the infinite.
God, whatever He may be, would fall into the realm of the infinite, always slightly beyond our imagination.
To a philosopher God, The Infinite, is sought, if not found in "Right Reason" to the student of Law it is found in the "Law of Nature", to the theologian he may say it is "Divine Will".
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
"Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it]. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts."
Praying in the name of Yahushua/Jesus does not mean saying the word "Yahushua" or "Jesus or (YHWH) in your prayer. It means that when you ask, appeal or apply to God the Father you are to have the same character, spirit or nature as Jesus, Yahushua, YWHW, etc. In other words don't bother praying to God if your character, spirit or nature is that of a commandment breaker, like a liar, a thief or someone that is covetous, vain, jealous, slothful, lustful, greedy or fearful.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote, "The evil was not in the bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease."
Man was given dominion over the earth and those things that creep upon it, fly above it or swim in its waters, but not over one another. The history of mankind demonstrates the "willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men". The Bible was mostly about how to govern yourselves and not go under other governments of men. This is why all the prophets of God, Christ, and the Apostles have been warning the people from the beginning not eat with rulers or go to those "Fathers of the earth" who call themselves "benefactors but "exercise authority" one over the other to provide social welfare. Those benefits are the wages of unrighteousness of a table from which we should not eat which are the result of covetous practices that will make us merchandise and curse children. All the problems of the world today can be traced back to the fact modern religions ignore the commandments and not to covet your neighbor's goods, make covenants with other gods, bow down and serve them to "sell their rights as free men for full bellies", nor borrow against the future and be slothful in the ways of righteousness.
- ↑ Ex 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What [is] his name? what shall I say unto them?
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 AlefHeyYodHey01961 הָיָה HeyYodHey hayah [haw-yaw] a primitive root [compare 01933]; v; [BDB-224a] [{See TWOT on 491 }] AV-was, come to pass, came, has been, were happened, become, pertained, better for thee; 75
- 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) fall out, happen
- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
- 1a1b) to come about, come to pass
- 1a2) to come into being, become
- 1a2a) to arise, appear, come
- 1a2b) to become
- 1a2b1) to become
- 1a2b2) to become like
- 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established
- 1a3) to be
- 1a3a) to exist, be in existence
- 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)
- 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)
- 1a3d) to accompany, be with
- 1a1) fall out, happen
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about
- 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
- ↑ AlefShinReish834 αὐλητής auletes [ow-lay-tace’] from 832; n m; AV-minstrel 1, piper 1; 2 1) a flute player