Bible god's name?
Posted on: August 22, 2008 - 12:14am
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Bible god's name?
I just stumbled on something while reading exodus one day. How many people ever got in trouble for saying "goddamn it?" My mom used to get on me all the time about using the lord's name in vain, which is kind of surprising as she never really was a very religious person. However, god in this context is more of a title than its' name so my question is: What is the real name of the bible god?
"For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." (Exodus 34:14)
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"We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see,
but these things are only the effects of something subtle. [ something else]
When we see beyond the desire to use names,
we can sense the nameless cause of these effects.
The cause and the effects are aspects of the same, one thing. [ONE]
They are both mysterious and profound. [ Yeah WTF ! ]
At their most mysterious and profound point lies the "Gate of the Great Truth"." [the unknown]
~ "Often translated as: "The Tao that can be explained with words is not the Tao."
I enjoyed this read a fews years back .... No, it is not perfect, just helpful ....
How Can One Be A Taoist-Buddhist Confucian?-- A Chinese Illustration of Multuple Religious Participationhttp://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/INTLVIEW/intlvi02.htm
Wow the first verse of the Tao is an interesting use of words ... which has been re-written 1000's of times ....
"The Tao the can be told ofIs not the Absolute Tao;
The Names that can be given
Are not Absolute Names."
I find the Tao, and much eastern writing of so long ago simply part of my amazement and pride of being human. The bible is mostly a piss off .....
Jealous, El, Elohim, Yahweh. There's more, but those are what spring to mind.
Elohim is a plural. Are christians polytheists?
“Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt” - H.L. Mencken
This is why I always tell people context and original language is important. Reading the English translation will screw you up. In the Hebrew Bible, there are references to the Elohim, the pantheon of Gods, ruled by El-yon, the father "Most High" of the many Gods of his offspring. Yahweh is one of the sons of El-yon. See my article here.
Additionally, many things are eponymous in Jewish literature, including God - who in this case is named for his actions. Just as he is "I am who I am" according to his speech (via the burning bush), he is jealousy, as he is everything. This is the author of Exodus' way of getting that message across.
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Et suppositio nil ponit in esse.
"You act ridiculously," said Ion, "to doubt everything. For my part, I should like to ask you what you say to those who free possessed men from their terrors by exorcising the spirits so manifestly. I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee. When he stands beside them as they lie there and asks : 'Whence came you into his body?' the patient himself is silent, but the spirit answers in Greek or in the language of whatever foreign country he comes from, telling how and whence he entered into the man; whereupon, by adjuring the spirit and if he does not obey, threatening him, he drives him out. Indeed, I actually saw one coming out, black and smoky in color." "It is nothing much," I remarked," for you, Ion, to see that kind of sight, when even the 'forms' that the father of your school, Plato, points out are plain to you, a hazy object of vision to the rest of us, whose eyes are weak." - Lucian, Lover of Lies
If the Christards are right I'll call him "Fuckwad" when I meet him. Shit, I'd be going to hell anyway what more can he do?
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