{"id":2887,"date":"2010-05-31T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/jesus-in-the-yahweh-verses\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T13:56:00","slug":"jesus-in-the-yahweh-verses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/jesus-in-the-yahweh-verses.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus in the Yahweh Verses"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In the discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-great-trinity-debate-part-6-rob-bowmans-closing-statement\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rob Bowman\u2019s closing statement in the Great Trinity Debate at Parchment and Pen<\/a>, I was asked what I think of the application to Jesus in the New Testament of verses which, in the Jewish Scriptures, refer to Yahweh.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-great-trinity-debate-part-6-rob-bowmans-closing-statement\/#comment-32394\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">answer<\/a> is that Jews who believed God might bestow his name upon an exalted agent would probably have considered it appropriate to ask whether any of the\u00a0texts mentioning\u00a0Yahweh in the Scripures refer to the agent called by God\u2019s name. Once the name has been shared,\u00a0sharing Scriptures which use the divine name is not an unnatural next step. What do others think?<\/p>\n<p>As this past Sunday was <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaljesus.com\/2010\/05\/30\/trinity-sunday\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trinity Sunday<\/a>, there was quite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/sundays-gospel-trinity-sunday\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelpahl.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/30\/reflections-on-trinity\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/05\/trinity-sunday.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blogging<\/a> on this topic, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/rdtwot.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/30\/2010-trinity-blogging-summit\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2010 Trinity Blogging Summit hosted by Nick Norelli<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weekendfisher.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/my-father-is-greater-than-i-road-less.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Weekend Fisher wrestling with the phrase \u201cThe Father is Greater Than I\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and David Henson\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/unorthodoxology.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/trinity-sunday-metaphor-myth-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Unorthodoxology+%28unorthodoxology%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">unorthodoxological thoughts on (un)belief in the Trinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5717326595784862486?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the discussion of Rob Bowman\u2019s closing statement in the Great Trinity Debate at Parchment and Pen, I was asked what I think of the application to Jesus in the New Testament of verses which, in the Jewish Scriptures, refer to Yahweh. 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