Digest Number 514

[Guest guest]

 

> The word God and Good come from the same origin

 

Of course, the word God is ultimately a proper name based on the word god.

The "name" of the Christian God is Yahweh or El (depending on which part of

the Bible you read).

 

Since the Torah is written without vowels, where does the a or e

come from? That's just a guess.

No one can say the holy one's name.

Bob

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Bob

 

> Since the Torah is written without vowels, where does the a or e come from? That's just a guess.

 

All of the early OT stories are drawn from much earlier Sumerian myths - Yahweh (written as Yhwh in Hebrew - OK, obviously using Hebrew lettering, but I don't have the font!) was a minor Babylonian storm god. I don't speak or write ancient Hebrew, but I believe the written language does have the occassional vowel. The best book I've read on the breakdown of the two gods which became the god of monotheists is Karen Armstrong's "A History of God".

 

> No one can say the holy one's name.

 

This is also a throwback to much older religions. In ancient belief systems there is much more importance on the specific sound vibrations made by words - this had specific importance to magic and invocations: if the name of a god was pronounced, the speaker had the power to control that god. That is why, when Moses (the great Egyptian magician) sees the burning bush, Yahweh refuses to tell Moses his name and simply says "I am who I am" - if Moses had known the name of the god, he could have had power over him.

 

Ironic that this has come down to modern religion almost in reverse.

 

BB

Peter

 

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>> No one can say the holy one's name.

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>This is also a throwback to much older religions. In ancient belief systems

there is much more importance on the specific sound vibrations made by words -

this had specific importance to magic and invocations: if the name of a god was

pronounced, the speaker had the power to control that god. That is why, when

Moses (the great Egyptian magician) sees the burning bush, Yahweh refuses to

tell Moses his name and simply says " I am who I am " - if Moses had known the

name of the god, he could have had power over him.

 

 

actually, its like they subverted that belief into wizardry and satanism

if you know the true name of a demon, devil, wothaveyou, you can control them er

have power over them...

fraggle

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>Ironic that this has come down to modern religion almost in reverse.

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>BB

>Peter

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[Guest guest]

Hi Brenda,

Thanks for taking me a step(infact a few BIG steps) further thru' this

confounding road to a cfgfmf(meat-free) diet. Your answers to my Qs will

definetely help me follow

the diet more succesfully. Hey, If your family loves indian food, just bring

them home....I would love to give you a feast!

Meena

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As part of Oprah's show on Friday April 3rd, Lisa Ling is doing an investigation/story on puppy mills and the atrocious abuses that occur there. Oprah is dedicating the show to her late cocker spaniel Sophie who died last month from kidney failure. While Sophie was not a product of a puppy mill, and Winfrey's three current dogs were adopted from breeders, Winfrey says that in the future she will adopt from an animal shelter.

 

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