THEO 298 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Suzerainty, Burning Bush, God Speaks
16 Feb 2016
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Father, son and holy spirit = they"re all one god. Analogous language : image of god, easier for us to understand. Dante"s vision of god : the love which moves the sun and other stars . God is rotating on itself and everyone spins around him, all the different level angels, and the planets, the universe, etc. (in the picture) In the writing of hebrew bible, there is a story which we know now that it"s not true. It was believed originally that moses was the author of the first 5 books of the bible. When god speaks to moses out of a burning bush. His is god giving us his name i am who i am . Moses is testing this god, asking for his name. God"s name is yhwh yahweh (adonai/lord). If you know someone"s name, you have power over that being. name. If it says god it is not from j source.
