Yahweh

The fact that the people do what is commanded is evidence of the recognition of Yahweh as their divine God, and it is a testament to the authority they ascribe to Him. The existence and recognition of the authority of these deities does not provide the only cornerstone for this argument. To discuss the relationship between the divine

states that even if the Satan does bring charges against humanity, he is “nonetheless a loyal member of Yahweh's retinue.” Page urges readers and other scholars not to limit the Satan’s status as only being a prosecutor. Page elaborates, “He reports to Yahweh and does his bidding. His function is clearly a subordinate one. He does not even initiate the conversation concerning Job.” This important note points out that in fact Job was only mentioned after God had stated of Job’s righteousness; it is as if

Deuteronomy 6:4-6 An Exegetical Research Paper Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. ESTABLISHING THE TEXT The text is a passage known as the Shema (“Hear”) which has become the fundamental dogma of the Old Testament and was also identified in the New Testament (Mark 12:29-30) as the most important of all the commandments

sling and stone by hitting him in the head. 2. What does God promise David? God promised to David that he was to serve as the shepherd to the people and leader of Israel. 3. What must David do for the covenant? David must build a temple for Yahweh. 4. What does David do that upsets Nathan? David reacts to the story about the rich man and poor man and he believes that the rich man should have to pay the poor man back.

of the Covenant, so they established Jerusalem as Yahweh’s kingdom. Many of these early leaders of the Israelites were very sinful, and got away with many evil deeds, like murder, adultery, and rape, but the worst sin seems to be lack of faith in Yahweh. In fact, Jesus came and lived as the “anointed one” living a sinless life, and sacrificing himself for everyone’s salvation (Carvalho 166). For this reason,

the first religion to attempt to practice monotheism, many of its early followers had multiple gods. Religious figures warned the people of the repercussions of worshiping more than one god under the Hebrew tradition. But the power of the Hebrew god Yahweh was limited to the territory owned by the Hebrews.

them promise to abide by every word in the book. Josiah followed the rules of the Torah and abolished false gods in order to prevent God’s wrath. Josiah led Jerusalem to a period of monotheism rather than polytheistic. The monotheism in place was for Yahweh. Scholars have found evidence the part of the Torah Josiah has been reading and basing his reforms from were in Deuteronomy which was the self-proclaimed Torah. (Carr, pg.

It stands to reason then, that what many people would say was pleasing to their god would not be pleasing to Jehovah. Yahweh required a perfect sacrifice to be given for sin, but unlike the people around the Israelites, the sacrifice itself did not purify the people or God’s opinion of them. In actuality, it was the heart behind the sacrifice that led to right standing with Yahweh. A wrong standing with God because of sin is what made the sacrifice necessary in the first place, but for many other

Meaning of the phrase “Law of Moses” The meaning of the phrase “law of Moses” has different possible meanings. To find which of the meanings fit the text best one must look at the Hebrew context. Since there is no word for “of” in the biblical Hebrew, Hebrew uses what is called a construct chain to define what type of (possessive) relationship between two nouns. A construct chain is when two nouns are placed side by side in which the (possessive) relationship between these two nouns is expressed

NAMES OF GOD: YAHWEH SHAMMAH SUBMITTED TO DR. DENNIS MCDONALD IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THEO 525, SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................................................................3   Defining the Name “Yahweh” .......................................................................................4 Defining the Name “Yahweh Shammah”……………………………………………