@lanny my friend 'Iam' wants to register, but it's closed... Need a reg code

1. 2019-06-20 at 3:08 AM UTC

   #21
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." ~ Exodus 3:14
2. 2019-06-20 at 3:19 AM UTC

   #22
   

   Period Blood Houston
   I kicked his ass.
3. 2019-06-20 at 3:28 AM UTC

   #23
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Originally posted by -SpectraL "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." ~ Exodus 3:14

   
   The better translation into English would be "I am that I will be". jedi and christian biblical scholars have been using this passage as evidence for the immutability of God since the middle ages.
   The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!

   • -SpectraL
4. 2019-06-20 at 3:31 AM UTC

   #24
   

   Sudo Black Hole [my hereto riemannian peach]

   Originally posted by Lanny The better translation into English would be "I am that I will be". jedi and christian biblical scholars have been using this passage as evidence for the immutability of God since the middle ages.

   
   I think the Islamic interpretation of a deity is the best, a deity so fast it cannot be fathomed, is not begotten so can never begot, instead of the christian/Judea story with his moon baby and burning bushes
5. 2019-06-20 at 4:22 AM UTC

   #25
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by Lanny The better translation into English would be "I am that I will be". jedi and christian biblical scholars have been using this passage as evidence for the immutability of God since the middle ages.

   
   True. An even more accurate translation is "I shall prove to be what I shall prove to be."
6. 2019-06-20 at 4:26 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Why not simply "I am who I am"?
7. 2019-06-20 at 4:31 AM UTC

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   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by Jυicebox Why not simply "I am who I am"?

   
   Because they were specifically asking what name they should say sent them. The name given was "I Shall Prove To Be What I Shall Prove To Be."
8. 2019-06-20 at 4:32 AM UTC

   #28
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   But the effect is the same
9. 2019-06-20 at 4:39 AM UTC

   #29
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   Tetragrammaton
   
   Modern scholars generally agree that YHWH is derived from the Hebrew triconsonantal root היה (h-y-h), “to be, become, come to pass”,[3] an archaic form of which is הוה (h-w-h),[4] with a third person masculine y- prefix, equivalent to English “he”. They connect it to Exodus 3:14, where the divinity who spoke with Moses responds to a question about his name by declaring: אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה (Ehyeh asher ehyeh), "I am that I am" or "I will be what I will be"[5] (in Biblical Hebrew the form of the verb here is not associated with any particular English tense).[6][7]
   
   The letters YHWH are consonants. In unpointed Biblical Hebrew, most vowels are not written and the rest are written only ambiguously, as certain consonants can double as vowel markers (similar to the Latin use of V to indicate both U and V). These are referred to as matres lectionis ("mothers of reading"). Therefore, in general, it is difficult to deduce how a word is pronounced only from its spelling, and the tetragrammaton is a particular example: two of its letters can serve as vowels, and two are vocalic place-holders, which are not pronounced.
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton