What is Yahweh

Although we begin with knowing Yahweh, thus understanding His personal qualities, we must come to recognize Him in ways that are impersonal as well.

12Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice. Deuteronomy 4:12

For just as He is existence itself, He can be likened to many things that don't have counterparts in humanity or the animal kingdom.

15Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, 16lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; Deuteronomy 4:15-18

This section will look at those non-personal qualities, that we might come to discern Yahweh more clearly.

Articles (4)

  • Yahweh is One
    "Hear, Israel: Yahweh is one" (Deuteronomy 6:4). A study of the Hebrew word echad and how the New Covenant affirms that Yahweh alone is God.
  • Yahweh Is Eternal: What the Bible Says
    Yahweh has no beginning and no end. Scripture on God's eternal nature and what it means for your faith.
  • Yahweh is Light
    Yahweh is light and therefore is the only One Who can show us the way things really are so that we might live accordingly.
  • Yahweh is Love
    God is love (1 John 4:8, 16). Yahweh does not just have love; He is love itself, a self-sacrificing love described in 1 Corinthians 13.

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