(January 31, 2017 at 5:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Buzzzzz. Sorry, FNM, no cigar for you! YHVH is the acronym for the way God identified himself to Moses, not by name but by His divine nature - "I am that I am". Sounds pretty consistent with a Being Whose Existence is identical to His Essence. Doesn't get more original than Exodus 3:14.
Oh, is that how he came down and wrestled with Jacob? With his essence?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell