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LORD Most popular Bible translations prefer not to translate “YHWH” as “Yahweh,” instead using the word Lord in small caps. This practice reflects Jewish reluctance to speak the lord’s holy name. Jews would use the term “lord” (adonai) in place of “Yahweh” when reading scripture aloud. The English term LORD is as good an approximation we have to Jesus’ “God.” Jesus’ ministry and Paul’s mission represent a key point in religious history, when the national god of the Jews, Yahweh, made the transition to become the universal, unnamed “God” of Hellenistic philosophy. Yahweh of the Torah is a person, someone capable of good and evil, compassion and wrath, hopes and disappointments. By the close of the New Testament canon, this god had been subsumed into Hellenistic philosophy, in which the supreme god could be investigated through reason and defined as perfection. By the end of the first century, the beloved disciple (or a follower) could go so far as to state that God is love (1 John 4:16), leaving behind Yahweh’s checkered past in favor of a philosophically pure description of a universal God. The term “LORD” captures the transitional nature of Jesus’ god. On one hand, it hearkens back to the original, tribal YHWH. On the other hand, the generic form (“lord”) is suitable for a religious movement that was about to break out of ethnic boundaries and become a faith for the world. For a religion based on Jesus as God, the term LORD for YHWH has the additional advantage of being easily confused with the regular old term “lord” often used for Jesus. Using the same term, lord, for both YHWH and Jesus helps smooth the way for Jesus to be God. When you pray to “the lord,” which lord is that? The Latter-Day Saints take this tactic all the way to its logical conclusion: YHWH of the Hebrew scriptures is literally Jesus, distinct from our heavenly father, Elohim. For LDS, YHWH the LORD is the same as Lord Jesus.
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contents table of contents you're already looking at it introduction for the inquisitive reader biographical overview who he was and wasn't
afterlife not Jesus' concern animal sacrifice bloodless religion apocalypse did Jesus preach hellfire? baptism sin wash for Jesus and others beatitudes Jesus' words and others' words beloved disciple witness for the un-gospel bible scripture old and new bishop the unjesus body focus on the physical Buddha Jesus' close kin charity key Christian virtue and legacy of Jesus The Da Vinci Code secret (and false) messages divorce women's status dreams convenient literary device Elijah Jewish prophet with his own second coming equality ancient source of modern egalitarianism exorcist Jesus and demons failure reinterpreting Jesus as a failure faith from trust to blind belief father Jesus on titles of honor Francis of Assisi the most Christlike Christian Gandhi the 20th century's most Christly holy man Galilee Jesus' inauspicious homeland gentiles Jesus' inadvertent audience god how Jesus became god golden rule key to Jesus' success gospels competing accounts heaven from sky to spiritual home hell revenge fantasy humanism Jesus' legacy inerrant Christian treatment of scripture Thomas Jefferson ethics of Jesus Jewish guilt Christian libel John's gospel the un-gospel John the baptist, see John the washer John the washer Jesus' apocalyptic mentor Judaism libeled religion of Jesus kingdom of god what Jesus promised Lao Tzu poet of the cosmic way logos jesus as the word of god C. S. Lewis famous, flawed trilemma little drummer boy Luke beats Matthew logos Jesus as the divine word LORD Yahweh transitioning to the one god of all Luke's gospel the all-around best gospel Mark's gospel the gospel that lost its point Mary of Magdala women, visions, and sex massacre of the innocents bloodshed starts early Matthew's gospel best gospel for church reading Mormon, see Joseph Smith Moses Jewish lawgiver Muhammad a prophet who got it right mystery Orpheus and transubstantiation oppression origin of Jesus' compassion The Passion of the Christ Luke as buzzkill Paul revealer of the revealer private and public public Jesus and secret Christ relativism the secret power of the golden rule sacrifice Jesus' death and Christian sacrament Albert Schweitzer Jesus as a failure sheol dark pit of death show Jesus' deeds as put-ons slavery abolished by Jesus' efforts Joseph Smith flesh-and-blood Jesus Socrates secular Jesus son of god on close terms with the man upstairs soul, see body synoptics three gospels that agree temple center of Jewish religion trinity unifying and divisive doctrinre vision, see dreams Yahweh, see LORD Zoroaster Persian dualistic holy man
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