Religion The God Of Israel - 1159 Words

Conor Doherty Religion The God of Israel First Paper Before coming to Regis I had never opened a bible, when I tell people that they usually write me off as an atheist or a heathen. This surprises me because after briefly looking through the bible it talks about how we should treat everyone as equals and to not judge others. The bible also wants us to reflect upon our own lives, which I believe is a very important aspect that the Christian religion should focus more on. The bible dates back to 1400 BC in a time where it was forbidden to practice your own religion. It is a series of stories written by disciples of God and Jesus to tell people how they should live their lives. Even though I have just started to really decipher the†¦show more content†¦YHWH is such a powerful name that some religions are forbidden to say it. Religious Jews are one of the groups that can not say his name when reading the Torah so they have translated YHWH into Adonai, it has also been translated to Jehovah and in the English bible its translated t o Lord. In the English bible the capitalized LORD refers to YHWH and the lowercase lord refers to â€Å"to be, to exist†. YHWH is said to be a divine warrior who led the heavenly army against the enemies of Israel. He was the national god of the Iron Age in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It is believed that since YHWH won the heavenly battle YHWH will protect Israel if all the people will stop praying to other gods such as Baal, El, and Asherah and have YHWH as the all powerful God. YHWH was proclaimed as God of the cosmos. Israel arose to YHWH peacefully in the highlands of Canaah. Israelites have always been a very religious group of people most Israelites were the indigenous people of Canaanites. The name YHWH has came from the tribe Edomite. They clam that YHWH was the warrior god of Edom and Midiam. Many historians say that El was the god of Israel before YHWH and that’s why the name Israel comes for El and not YWHW. The thing that separated YHWH from all the other gods was that he wanted peace for all human kind, he preached that if you get hit turn the other cheek because when you turn the other cheek you become equals. There are many different