Who is Yahweh?

Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.
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What was Yahweh the God of?

Yahweh in the Bible

In the Bible, Yahweh is the one true God who creates the heavens and the earth and then chooses a certain people, the Israelites, as his own.
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Is Yahweh the God the Father?

There are four different layers in the five books of Moses. The original strata of Yahweh as written by the author we call the Yahwist is of a remarkably impish kind of a person. He is not God the Father. He is something of a mischief maker.
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What's the meaning of Yahweh?

Definition of Yahweh

: god sense 1a —used especially by the ancient Hebrews — compare tetragrammaton.
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Is Yahweh Allah?

The Qur'an refers to Allah as the Lord of the Worlds. Unlike the biblical Yahweh (sometimes misread as Jehovah), he has no personal name, and his traditional 99 names are really epithets. These include the Creator, the King, the Almighty, and the All-Seer.
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Who is the real God?

God is described in the Quran as: "He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." Muslims repudiate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, comparing it to polytheism.
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What is Allah called in Hebrew?

Mainstream Bible translations in the language use Allah as the translation of Hebrew Elohim (translated in English Bibles as "God").
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What religion has Yahweh?

Towards the end of the Babylonian captivity, the very existence of foreign gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator of the cosmos and the one true God of all the world, giving birth to Judaism, which has c. 14–15 million adherents today.
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What is Jesus real name?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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What are the 7 names of God?

Seven names of God
  • YHWH.
  • Adonai.
  • El.
  • Elohim.
  • Shaddai.
  • Tzevaot.
  • Ehyeh.
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Is the Holy Spirit Yahweh?

The Holy Spirit is the power emanating from Yahweh, the Heavenly Father. It is Yahweh's power that puts all things into motion. It is Yahweh's power through His ruach that breathes life into His creation and makes things live.
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What is God's wife's name?

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.
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Is Yahweh and Jehovah the same?

Although Christian scholars after the Renaissance and Reformation periods used the term Jehovah for YHWH, in the 19th and 20th centuries biblical scholars again began to use the form Yahweh.
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Is Yahweh the same as I am?

Of course these are two different forms of the same word, but they represent two distinct "names". The God who calls himself "I AM" is the God who is to be addressed by the people of Israel as "HE IS". But neither of these sounds like a name in translation.
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Where does the Bible say Yahweh?

Exodus 3:13-15 is the first Biblical usage of the name “Yahweh,” and we can see at the end of the passage that it is the name by which God has chosen to be remembered throughout all generations.
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Who first Worshipped Yahweh?

These documents describe groups of Canaanite nomads collectively known as Shasu, including one tribe named Shasu Yhw(h) – perhaps the first recorded Yahweh worshippers in history.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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What language did Adam and Eve speak?

The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
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What is God's real name in Christianity?

Yahweh is the principal name in the Old Testament by which God reveals himself and is the most sacred, distinctive and incommunicable name of God.
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Who is the king of Yahweh?

THE IMPERIAL MAJESTY KING YAHWEH, affectionately recognized as King YAHWEH The Holy Ghost, is the founder of the Kingdom of YAHWEH and several organizations established to assist individuals who cannot assist themselves. The Imperial Majesty King YAHWEH was duly crowned and ordained by YAHWEH as the Imperial King.
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Is there a word Allah in the Bible?

In spite of allegations that Allah is not the same as the elohim and theos in the Bible, the use of Allah by Christians speaking Arabic and many other languages demonstrates its acceptance as a word to be used in their Bibles.
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Who is the founder of Islam?

The rise of Islam is intrinsically linked with the Prophet Muhammad, believed by Muslims to be the last in a long line of prophets that includes Moses and Jesus.
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Who is the only one true God?

Jesus upheld Biblical monotheism when he prayed to his Father, “This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
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Who is first God in the world?

Brahma the Creator

In the beginning, Brahma sprang from the cosmic golden egg and he then created good & evil and light & dark from his own person. He also created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors, and men (the first being Manu).
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