diverse names of God …

The diverse names of God revealed three periods of human history. First was the “natural period,” characterized by God’s revelation to the patriarchs as Shaddai (SnDY), God of Might. Secondly, in the period of the Torah (Instructions), God communicated to Moses as YHVH, the Tetragrammaton. The third the period of grace, during which the letter shin (Sn), representing Logos (the word of Christ), was added to the Tetragrammaton to form YHSnVH, Yehoshua, or Jesus. Whereas God revealed as YHVH was ineffable and unpronounceable, Jesus represented the coming of an accessible and knowable Deity, whose name could be spoken.

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