Tag: Jehovah
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Prayers
I am reassessing my relationship with Jehovah. I just think that as far as male transcendent gods go Brahma is superior. The other metric is that if Jehovah is the correct god there is no stretch of my imagination where I’m okay in his eyes. Brahma (if true) almost certainly doesn’t mind my penchant for…
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The Name of God
The name of God in the Old Testament is unpronounceable these days. Modern Jews call God Hashem sometimes. Hashem as I understand it just means The Name. There has been a prohibition against speaking the four Hebrew letters of God’s name since at least the time of Jesus. The word means “I am that I…
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Jehovah is not Jesus
I know you are probably wondering who says those two words refer to the same being. Sadly it is The General Authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints making the claim. I suppose if I tried real hard and squinted my eyes at the whole Old Testament I might be able…
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Unmanifest Impersonal Divine
A divine without names is the purest capacity. The Jews have Hashem and the Muslims have Allah. Those are designations not names. They speak to us of a God beyond matter and energy, beyond our illusions of It, beyond the images we make of It, and beyond associations. But what good to us is God…