Yahweh, The God Jesus Did Not Call Father
Why the Father in the Gospels Is Not the Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible — and What Scholarship Has Quietly Known for a Century BY DIESEL THE MAGUS · EFIRE TEMPLE · THE OLDEST FLAME The argument of this article is precise. It is not that the Hebrew Bible should be discarded. It is not that Yahweh is evil.
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Why the Father in the Gospels Is Not the Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible — and What Scholarship Has Quietly Known for a Century BY DIESEL THE MAGUS · EFIRE TEMPLE · THE OLDEST FLAME The argument of this article is precise. It is not that the Hebrew Bible should be discarded. It is not that Yahweh is evil. It is that the God Jesus described as Father — assembled from his direct speech, as in the first article of this series — does not match the figure who in the Hebrew scriptures repeatedly claims dominion over this world, demands blood sacrifice, hardens hearts, commands the extermination of enemy nations, and dwells in a specific temple in a specific city. Two portraits exist in the texts. They have been merged by sixteen centuries of theological construction. They were not always merged. The scholarship of the last hundred years has steadily recovered the distinction.
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Dead Sea Scrolls · Hebrew Bible · Old Testament · New Testament