yahweh

The Reverend is not the guy you'd want arguing with Yahweh to spare Sodom and Gomorrah lest He unjustly punish the innocent with the guilty.

Even if you're a hard-core atheist who places Yahweh on the same level as the boogeyman (which describes me pretty well), you should still recognize the cultural significance.

The 450 priests of Baal are unable to summon fire for their dry pile, but Yahweh lights Elijah's water-soaked pile.

Much of the old testament assumes that Yahweh is the god of Israel, and that other nations have their own gods.

But I'm totally convinced that he didn't claim he was Yahweh himself, that would have been ridiculous!

Most likely the Lion of Judah, who's symbol and emblem was and is still currently used, considering Yahweh was the national god of the Kingdom of Judah.

Marcion's program was to excise the judging Yahweh from what we now know as the New Testament, leaving only the loving, forgiving Jesus.

And a lot of things happened there before 500 BC - such as Yahweh becoming the dominant deity and King Hezekiah forbidding the worship of any other gods.

I know I went in with the safety off on my flagger (as it were) and almost did so when words like worship, Allah, and Yahweh (I'm a scatter reader) jumped out at me.

They thought the Pinfold voice was a god: Apollo, say, or Astarte or Yahweh or, more probably, a minor household god, offering them advice or orders.

As such, Yahweh doesn't "compete" against other (lower-case) gods, because they're not omnipotent creators and he is.

Agnosticism has nothing meaningful to say about this situation, because it claims to give equal weight to totally unfounded claims ("it's definitely yahweh").

So the translation can be read as "Yahweh is the bearer of the secret name, and the lion of Judah secure in his shrine.

Yahweh is clearly at a level "above all gods", i.e.

Yahweh was the national god of the Israelites, who were part of the Canaanite polytheistic system.

Also, they don't seem to have as many idiotic rules as Muslims (no depictions of Yahweh?

The Bible itself contains multiple instances of people successfully testing Yahweh's existence.