Hidden in the Names (Natures) of God: Transition
Guessing is something you get used to reading renderings of ancient languages. 'Ehyeh 'Asher 'Ehyeh (Exodus 3:14's I AM THAT I AM transliterated from the Hebrew) is what to AHYH or YHWH? They are all from the verb hayah. Well, except Asher. The ancient Aramaic reads Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh.
The above are the most important words you will ever encounter in your life. The entire Torah and Christian Bible come from them. They are what the world is about -- what you are, and what you are about. A life spent contemplating them would not be wasted. Some notes I would like to share about them:
'Ehyeh 'Asher 'Ehyeh is Bullinger's rendering in the Companion Bible: "I will be what I will be (or become)."
'Ehyeh by itself means I will be (or become). This is AHYH in Hebrew, God speaking of Himself.
YHWH is third person singular: He will be (or become). He who was, He who is, and He who is to come.
Ahiyeh in the Aramaic means I come. Hiyeh is . . . his becoming.
The point of all this is transition. God, as far as I can determine, is eternally becoming. Adam by the creative force of desire becomes Eve. Eve is mother; she gives birth. Cain is acquisition, Abel is TRANSITORINESS.
Through the process of Noah comes a new world. We are the action of God becoming a new world. Bullinger makes an eloquent case for this in his note for Genesis 1:2, And the earth was without form, and void. The Hebrew word for 'was' is hayah. It means BECAME. The earth BECAME without form, and void. Hayah indicates TRANSITION. The earth wasn't, and then it was. WHAT YOU ARE THIS SECOND, YOU WEREN'T A SECOND AGO. Nothing was. Time is continuous transition.
God does not change from being God, but everything about Him is constantly changing. Universes seen and unseen are His Manifestation, and they are in constant flux. And all that they can ever be . . . He already is. Christ is risen, and so you are, too. It is just a matter of transition. If I could give yet another rendering of the Aramaic Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh in Exodus 3:14, it means (in short) "I become."
The above are the most important words you will ever encounter in your life. The entire Torah and Christian Bible come from them. They are what the world is about -- what you are, and what you are about. A life spent contemplating them would not be wasted. Some notes I would like to share about them:
'Ehyeh 'Asher 'Ehyeh is Bullinger's rendering in the Companion Bible: "I will be what I will be (or become)."
'Ehyeh by itself means I will be (or become). This is AHYH in Hebrew, God speaking of Himself.
YHWH is third person singular: He will be (or become). He who was, He who is, and He who is to come.
Ahiyeh in the Aramaic means I come. Hiyeh is . . . his becoming.
The point of all this is transition. God, as far as I can determine, is eternally becoming. Adam by the creative force of desire becomes Eve. Eve is mother; she gives birth. Cain is acquisition, Abel is TRANSITORINESS.
Through the process of Noah comes a new world. We are the action of God becoming a new world. Bullinger makes an eloquent case for this in his note for Genesis 1:2, And the earth was without form, and void. The Hebrew word for 'was' is hayah. It means BECAME. The earth BECAME without form, and void. Hayah indicates TRANSITION. The earth wasn't, and then it was. WHAT YOU ARE THIS SECOND, YOU WEREN'T A SECOND AGO. Nothing was. Time is continuous transition.
God does not change from being God, but everything about Him is constantly changing. Universes seen and unseen are His Manifestation, and they are in constant flux. And all that they can ever be . . . He already is. Christ is risen, and so you are, too. It is just a matter of transition. If I could give yet another rendering of the Aramaic Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh in Exodus 3:14, it means (in short) "I become."
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