El nombre de Dios:"YHWH" tiene muchos significados y uno es "Yo Soy El Que Soy" Esas cuatro letras encierra un misterio tan grande y llegó a considerarse tan sagrado que los líderes religiosos prohibieron pronunciarlo, salvo en algunos rituales muy específicos realizados por los sacerdotes, hasta que con el paso del tiempo se olvidó exactamente cuál era su pronunciación. Distintos autores apuntan a una relación fascinante entre este nombre sagrado y el sonido de la respiración.
Esas letras se pronunciarían una a una de la siguiente manera: Yod – Heh – Vav – Heh. Ahora bien, la Heh es una letra que representa el ruah divino, que significa soplo, viento o espíritu. Esta consonante es la que se repite en el nombre dos veces, lo cual da la impresión de que la «respiración» es la idea principal del nombre divino. Por lo que muchos rabinos creen que el sonido del nombre de Dios es aquel que se produce en el interior del ser humano cuando respira profundamente.
Oímos que Dios que está con nosotros y eso es verdad pero la realidad es más asombrosa que esto. Dios, יהוה, está dentro de nosotros.
Mientras lees esto, estás respirando, pero además estás haciendo algo más importante, estás pronunciando el nombre de Dios. Aunque mantengas la boca cerrada, aunque seas ateo e incluso aunque te niegues a pronunciarlo, seguirás haciéndolo.
Inevitablemente. Porque comenzamos la vida pronunciando el nombre de Dios en nuestra primera inhalación y terminamos la vida pronunciando el nombre de Dios en nuestra última exhalación.
No podemos vivir sin respirar, como no podemos vivir sin Dios. Es una necesidad fundamental.
La respiración de todo lo que vive adora su nombre, porque la respiración de todo lo que vive es su nombre.
Exodus 6:3, Geneva Bible (translated the Hebrew scriptures that comprised the Old Testament and the scholarly editions of the Greek New Testament. Published in 1560)
Acting once more in the very person of [YHWH], Jesus fed his friends with his very substance, effecting the very deepest kind of coinherence among them because of the radicality of his coinherence with them. [...] We must never keep the fall far from our minds when we consider these events. If our trouble began with a bad meal (seizing at godliness on our own terms), then our salvation commences with a rightly structured meal (God offering us his life as a free gift).
- Bishop Barron (This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival, pages 19, 19-20). Italics original.
1 In that day YHWH lays a charge," With His sword—the sharp, and the great, and the strong," On leviathan—a fleeing serpent, "" And on leviathan—a crooked serpent," And He has slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.
2 In that day respond to her, “A desirable vineyard,
3 I, YHWH, am its keeper," I water it every moment," Lest any lay a charge against it," Night and day I keep it!
4 Fury is not in Me; Who gives Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it," I burn it at once.
5 Or—he takes hold on My strength," [That] he makes peace with Me," [And] he makes peace with Me.”
6 He causes those coming in to take root," Jacob blossoms, and Israel has flourished," And they have filled the face of the world [with] increase.
7 Has He struck him as the striking of his striker? Does He slay as the slaying of his slain?
8 In measure, in sending it forth, you strive with it," He has taken away by His sharp wind," In the day of an east wind,
9 Therefore the iniquity of Jacob is covered by this," And this [is] all the fruit—To take away his sin," In his setting all the stones of an altar," As chalkstones beaten in pieces, "" They do not rise—Asherim and images.
10 For the fortified city [is] alone," A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness," There the calf delights," And there it lies down," And has consumed its branches.
11 In the withering of its branch it is broken off," Women are coming in [and] setting it on fire," For it [is] not a people of understanding," Therefore its Maker does not pity it," And its Former does not favor it.
God giving the people of Israel the land of Canaan: God's talk with the people of Israel before the possession of the land.
So, I opened my Bible today, intending to read a Psalm from the book of Psalms however when I opened my Bible I saw that a couple of pages were folded (and that's one thing that I don't like). So I unfolded the pages and it was the book of Deuteronomy; specifically chapters 7 - 9. Nevertheless, I briefly read over those chapters and it's beautiful, it's amazing. Those chapters told me about how YHWH God; He was speaking to the people of Israel. . . Telling them about the nations of people He would drive out of the land He was giving to them, His own, special people chosen from all the people on the earth (Deut. 7:6). He tells them why they were chosen and saved from their enemies (Deut. 7:7-8). Before chapter 7, in chapter 6 there's a warning against disobedience and then in chapter 7 as well, there's being told the blessings of obedience to YHWH God. God speaks to them about how He took care of them when they dwelled in the desert for 40 years (because of their disobedience). Even then, He took care of them, protected them. God goes on to tell them the reasons He's giving that land to them (Deut. 9:4-5). Regardless of them having been a stubborn people (Deut. 9:6) He was still giving the land to them because of the promise He made. Regardless of how angry they made God in the desert & rebelled against Him (Deut. 9:7); even at Mount Sinai (Deut. 9:8). Regardless of all of that, this shows me how faithful, merciful and true God is and that those characteristics of Him doesn't depend on the people but are a reflection of His nature. God truly is impartial; that was one of the points I wanted to make with this post. The other is this: regardless of the current state of Israel and your view on whether they are the true Israel or not, the people of Israel will all be saved by God and God will defeat all their enemies. . .not because of who they are but because of WHO GOD IS & THE PROMISES HE MADE. So please, bear this in mind.
I've recently been thinking about the logical inconsistencies about yhwh's nature, and I think it's easier to understand if you basically treat him like a eldritch god from Lovecraft's works. Specifically Azathoth with regards to power, and Nyarlathotep in regards to personality and pettiness.
Okay. I'll have to take your word for it.
The crux of YHWH seems to be that he's a composite of many other gods, god traditions, myths, legends and other superstitions all collapsed down to a single character. Legends and tales involving different and competing gods or demigods have been reworked into monotheism, attributing all the contradictions, contentions and drama to a single individual.
Imagine if the personalities of the Simpsons family were all incorporated into a single person. That's YHWH.
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
-- Richard Dawkins