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There's an article, for example, about Yahweh, which is the name of my God.
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It's the name of the Christian God and the name of the Jewish God.
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It is the name that is translated the Lord in the Bible.
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And the article in Wikipedia about Yahweh, that's the title of the article, Yahweh, nothing else, says Yahweh was, past tense,
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the head of a pantheon of ancient, I don't know, Israelite gods, or maybe they say Canaanite, I think maybe Canaanite.
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And it's, well, first of all, that's very speculative, right?
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So we don't know that for sure.
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that is widely believed by especially secular Bible scholars.
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And the line is that...
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This deity then was sort of pressed into service and made the only God, the creator God.
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But it took a long time for this process to happen.
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Whereas if you actually ask believing Christians and Jews and even Muslims, they will tell you that, no, in fact, God gave his name to Moses.
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And his name was at least used in the book of Genesis, and it's used all throughout the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.
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And these, again, on a traditional confessional view, were written by Moses, who actually talked to God.
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And so that's where we got the name, the Tetragrammaton, as you say, and not this way.
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I see.
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So this just tells one view and simply ignores the religious view.
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Now, I'm not saying that the religious view is correct and that it should be stated in wiki voice, but this should not be stated in wiki voice.
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This...
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This view that's stated here should be in the second or third paragraph and attributed to its owners.