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Originally Posted by Honza
Is Yahweh a God who is "outside" of us? The OT never mentions the "God Within". Instead Yahweh came from above and spoke to people from the outside.
It is only indicative of todays spiritual climate that many people feel there is no God "outside". The outer world is barren. But I feel it has not always been so.
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Yahweh, first mention in Genesis 2:4 is a God we generally know very little about if absolutely nothing.
Having said that:
If you look at the four letters (Tetragrammaton) generally rendered in Hebrew to English as YHWH and is normally transliterated as Yahweh has been for the most part, been removed from virtually all English Bibles.
But......
if we look at the Masoretic texts, Yahweh, if you look very closely, is not one specific word but is now rendered as one of about 6 possible words. Other-words, the word can be pronounced as Yahweh, Yahwih, Yehowah, etc. which only enforces the complexity of the Old Hebrew four letters (Tetragrammaton) which has been for the most part have bbeen lost thru neglect, customs, poor translations, etc.