spot the difference

EXODUS 20:2-17 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 10. Thou shalt not covet.

EXODUS 34:12-27 1. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 2. For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: 3. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 4. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib. 5. All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. 6. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. 7. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest. 8. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest. 9. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. 10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

How can those two lists be so utterly different? When Moses dropped the first set of tablets, the second set was supposed to be a duplicate, remember? So who decided which were to be the Ten Commandments?! And how did they decide? Did someone take a vote? Toss a coin? Arm wrestle for their favorites? To repeat, there are no Ten Commandments.

Yahweh and his consort

“‘How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’?

But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.’” (Jeremiah 8:8)

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In ancient mythology, the most popular goddesses “came to earth in a ball of fire.” Meteorites were sacred and honored for their perceived relationship to the arrival of the goddess. The ancient Nabataeans (who disappeared in the first century BCE near Emesa (Syria)) and the ancient Emesans (who suddenly appeared in the first century BCE near Emesa) revered a "Sacred Black Stone" they called El Gabal (El=God; Gabal=Mountain).

El was the supreme god, father of humankind, and creator of all creatures on earth. The word El was found in the ruins of the Royal Library of the Ebla civilization in the archaeological site of Tell Mardikh (Syria) and dated to c. 2300 BCE. Tablets found in excavations at Ugarit (written c. 1300-1200 BCE) named El’s wife; she was the Goddess Asherah (Hebrew אשרה - ASHRH). Asherah was a major Semitic mother goddess who was worshipped in ancient Israel as the consort of El and in Judah as the consort of Yahweh. Of course this was some time before YHVH was transformed to a male-only deity.

(See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah and http://www.orderwhitemoon.org/goddess/Asherah.html)

The Hebrew word for “god” is eloah. Elohim and Elohei are plural for eloah.

Exodus 3:13: “Then Moses said ‘el-ha·'e·lo·him. ‘If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘Elohei of your fathers sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”

Exodus 3:14: “E·lo·him (translated as “God,” but literally, “gods”) said to Moses, “AHYH ASHR AHYH.” This important answer Moses received “from the gods” has been translated as “I AM THAT I AM” or “I AM WHO I AM,” or "I AM WHAT I AM."

For the name of God, Yahweh (YHWH) to become "I AM" (AHYH) requires a very minor change of Hebrew letters. For the name of the Semetic goddess Asherah (ASHRH) to become "that/who/what" (ASHR) also requires minor changes. (See enlarged images below.)

If the original text was AHYH ASHRH YHWH, rather than AHYH ASHR AHYH, then the gods’ answer to Moses question, "What is your name?" was: “I AM Mother (Goddess), Father (God)." This thesis is supported by the excavations at Ugarit that identified Yahweh and Asherah (YHVH ASHRH) as Semetic Father-God and Mother-Goddess (masculine and feminine principles). It seems possible, perhaps probable, that “The gods” instructed Moses to tell his people that THEY were YHVH and ASHRH,Father of all and Mother of all.

Jeremiah's warning may deserve careful consideration. The powerful Patriarchal Priesthood had a great deal to lose if Moses supported those who worshipped YHVH and ASHRH.

Did Moses' "two stone tablets" received from “the gods” on the “mountain” originate with the "Sacred Black Stone" mythology built around Yahweh and Asherah? Evidence to support this conclusion can be found in a most unexpected place:

Revelation 22:16: “I Jesus have sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.”

Revelation 22:17: “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let him who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price.”

"The Spirit" and "The Bride" are clearly two entities; therefore, it can be assumed that the conjunction "and" in Revelation 22:16 has been misplaced; 22:16 should read, "I AM the root, the offspring of David, AND the Bright Morning Star."

The Greek word for star is aster. The "Bright Morning Star" was Venus, mythological goddess of love, beauty and sexuality (procreation). Asherah was also known as the goddess of procreation - the Great Mother Goddess, consort of Yahweh.

Jesus said: "I AM..." He then described "I AM" as "The Root" and "The Morning Star." Allegorically, Jesus said "I AM" consisted of two parts: the masculine and feminine principles  from which all life emerges. With this understanding of his words, and the understanding of Moses' interaction with The Gods on Mount Sinai, religion and science begin to merge:

E = mc ²  can also be written: m = E divided by c². According to Einstein, mass/matter/life is created by the interaction of Energy and Light. Energy can be equated with Root and God to represent "masculine potential." Light can be equated with Morning Star and Goddess to represent "feminine potential." Creation, according to Moses, Jesus, and Einstein requires both.

Jeremiah 8:8

“‘How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.’”

YHWH          יְהֹוָה    Yahweh

AHYH             הָיָה    "I AM"
ASHRH          אשרה      Asherah 

ASHR              אֲשֶׁר   "That"

Articles on Asherah can be found at: http://www.northernway.org/hgoddess.html

and http://www.matrifocus.com/BEL04/spotlight.htm


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Yahweh

Meaning and origin

There are several views of what YHWH means, and where the term originated. The most commonly accepted is that the term comes from "Y" (hebrew yodh י) meaning "he", and the Semitic root "HWH", (Hebrew: he wa he היה ) which means either "to be" or "to create" depending on context, mode and inflection, making YHWH "He who is" or alternately "He who creates."

Without vowels, both scholars of the Bible as well as linguists can only guess on the variation of the root HWH, and in context the raw word "YHWH" could also mean "He who builds", "He who lives" (the root "to be" has the variation of "to live" "to breathe" and "to build or bring into existence.") In Exodus 3:14, god states its name is "Ehyeh asher ehyeh" "I am what I am".

A second theory is based on the linguistic evidence that the Semitic tri-root "HWH" indicates things which fall, or a storm. This argument suggests YHWH might be indicating at Storm god. This highly compelling theory blends with the theory that YHWH was an Edomic Storm God who was adopted into the Canaanite culture.

the Hebrew Bible contains no vowels, and partly because Conservative and Orthodox Jews would not pronounce the name out of respect.^[1] A common rendering of the word is sometimes called the "tetragrammaton" (which is Greek for "a word of four letters"). YHWH is written as it is because Hebrew doesn't usually include vowels. Judaism teaches that saying that name frivolously is blasphemy, even God is sometimes spellt G-d, terms like Ha'shem", lit. "The Name" are used to describe god instead of what are considered sacred names.

Since God never actually tells us His name, a commandment telling one not to take His name in vain is a little confusing.

"Yahweh", also spellt YHWH, is generally accepted as the name of God in Judaism and the Old Testament, though some claim it is actually the corruption "Jehovah". Yahweh is one of the Jewish names for God, transliterated from Hebrew to Latin. YHWH is written as it is because Hebrew doesn't usually include vowels.Judaism teaches that saying that name frivolously is blasphemy, even God is sometimes spellt G-d, terms like Ha'shem", lit. "The Name" are used to describe god instead of what are considered sacred names.