Yahweh

the Second Account of creation, there are no specified days and things are told differently. Yahweh made man from soil and breathed into him the breath of life. Yahweh also plants garden in Eden. Yahweh is more personified and close. Adam is also giving the task to name the animals, but none are suitable as a mate. Genesis 2:21-22 states “Then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh”. Yahweh builds a rib from the man into a woman and Bone from my bone flesh from my flesh.…

defeated the Babylonians, in 538 B.C.E., King Cyrus the Great allowed the exiled people to return to Jerusalem. At this time, the exiles started redefining their beliefs and practices. This group of people established what they believed was the law of Yahweh, another name for God and, thus; became what we now call the Jewish religion. In order to more fully understand the Jewish religion, there has to be a clear understanding…

actions that are attributed to Yahweh. While, in actuality, it was the Babylonians that carried out the seizure of the land and caused the devastation, Jeremiah describes that it was the Lord that “destroyed without mercy all the dwellings of Jacob” (Lamentations 2.2a). The Lord, in this case, is a symbol for…

The Christian Satan Ask any American Christian about Satan and they will probably describe an evil being who hates God and Christians, but this has not always been the case. Much of the present day Christian views on Satan began to take shape during the beginning of Christianity. Early Christian writers helped shape the development of Satan, including his influence on humanity, within the boundaries of the Christian tradition. Such ideas created the framework for the writings of the New…

ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to him and said, ‘I am El Shaddai. Live in my presence, be perfect, and I shall grant a covenant between myself and you, and make you very numerous.’ And Abram bowed to the ground. God spoke to him as follows, ‘For my part, this is my covenant with you: you will become the father of many nations” (The Covenant 15). This according to the Hebrews at the time was a direct agreement with Yahweh and Abraham, that as long as Abraham did as Yahweh asked the…

not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations” (Ezra 9.1b). After showing physical signs of distress at this news, the author of this chapter proceeds to fall on his knees and lift his hands toward Yahweh. In what…

The rituals start on a smaller scale, and continue all the way the offering of our first born, but is that what Yahweh wants? In Micah 6:8 we find the answer, “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). Simply put God wants true relationship with Him…

Yau’asah amd (to Z): I bless you by Yahweh, our guardian, and by his Asherah” and Hadley accounts is “X says: say to Yehal(Lel’el) and to Yo’asah and (to Z): I bless you by Yahweh of Samaria and by his Asherah” . Here you can see the slight variables; However, Devers does not give a place unlike Meshel and Hadley who say ‘Yahweh of Samaria’. Pithoi B inscriptions translated by Hadley says; "Amaryaw says: to my lord: is it well with you? I bless you by Yahweh of Teman and by his Asherah. May…

Furthermore, the words “to pluck up and to pull down” point to the words concerning agriculture and “to destroy and to overthrow,” and “to build and to plant” signify the terms used for construction. (Jeremiah 1:10) It refers to verses 1-3 in which the text points to the last period of Judah’s statehood and the Jerusalem’s destruction in 587/6. It is important to note that the text specifically points to the “destruction of the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar, of their temple, city, and nation.” The…

his blessings and deliverance. The Hebrew name of Eloah meaning "a God" is a singular form of El. In Job 6:8 the prophet Job asks for death so he can have comfort. Within the Canaanite Pantheon, El was the leader of the divine family of which Yahweh was a member of. Living on a mountain, El presided over the Assembly of the Gods with the goddess Asherah as his companion as well as his many sons. In Psalm 82:1-8, Here a father tells his sons, referred to as the "elohim" that even though they…