I always thought it was silly for the Bible to say to have no other God when it claims that there is only one God. (Which I therefore figured that names didn't matter when refering to the "Ultimate Reality", as my world religions textbook says)
I knew the YHWH bit. I've always figured it was a placeholder for something we don't know. Figured it was also a bit like Cuthulu; the actual name is something we can't possibly pronounce or grasp properly, so we bastardize it with our human accents.
Christianity is both tritheistic and monotheistic, when you consider that the Trinity is describing three functions/forms which we recognise has God. A wild thought I had once was that God has multiple personalities (Following that line of thought even more, I figured that really, God is creation, and thus we are a part of God, as God is a part of us. Whole web of life thing, and really we're all very confused with ourselves. Then I figured I've been reading too much Bruce Coville).
(I like the look of "elohim". I've toyed with the idea of naming a character a varient of it, but figured it'll be too obvious. It's on my list though.)
Well, as I don't believe there is actually a god, I would say that the name the Hebrews gave him is, by definition, his name. The people who invent a character get to name him. :-) I suppose one could argue that that was simply the name he adopted when speaking with the Hebrews (in fact, the author of God: A Biography argues that, in fact, the scene in which God gave his name to Moses actually described God inventing a name for himself)
If the Biblical God does exist, he seems more like bipolar than multiple personality ... *G*
The -im in Elohim is actually a plural suffix, although I believe the term was treated as a singular noun in Hebrew.
I had to look it up. I remembered the quote and a few characters (lol) but not the authors or title. (It's like me with songs, I can tell you every lyric, but not the title or band. *snort*) It's called "Inherit the Wind", and it's about a man on trial for teaching evolution in his classroom. To do so was illegal, and carried with it a fine of up to $500.
I knew the YHWH bit. I've always figured it was a placeholder for something we don't know. Figured it was also a bit like Cuthulu; the actual name is something we can't possibly pronounce or grasp properly, so we bastardize it with our human accents.
Christianity is both tritheistic and monotheistic, when you consider that the Trinity is describing three functions/forms which we recognise has God. A wild thought I had once was that God has multiple personalities (Following that line of thought even more, I figured that really, God is creation, and thus we are a part of God, as God is a part of us. Whole web of life thing, and really we're all very confused with ourselves. Then I figured I've been reading too much Bruce Coville).
(I like the look of "elohim". I've toyed with the idea of naming a character a varient of it, but figured it'll be too obvious. It's on my list though.)
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If the Biblical God does exist, he seems more like bipolar than multiple personality ... *G*
The -im in Elohim is actually a plural suffix, although I believe the term was treated as a singular noun in Hebrew.
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What play is it from?
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