God is not god's name, A journey beyond words, by Rev. Stephen Edington ;foreward by John Leland
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God is not god's name, A journey beyond words, by Rev. Stephen Edington ;foreward by John Leland
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God is not god's name
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by Rev. Stephen Edington ;foreward by John Leland
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A journey beyond words
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I concede to the irony of writing a book with the words beyond words in its subtitle. If I were to truly go beyond words, the following pages would all be blank! I am hardly the first to deal with this conundrum, however. Jewish scholars tell us that in the aftermath of the Babylonian Exile of the sixth century BCE, the Jews ceased to use their name for GodYahwehbecause the divine name had come to be regarded as too sacred and holy to even be spoken. They had to come up with other ways to identify that which they regarded as ultimately sacred and holy. I can relate
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