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Talk:Genesis 1-8 (Translated) (view source)
Revision as of 20:10, July 21, 2012
, 20:10, July 21, 2012→Tense of YHWH as a verb: new section
I suggest replacing "shall" with "will"; after all the purpose of this project is to use more modern language, and "shall" is increasingly becoming obsolete. Furthermore, this change would improve internal consistency, as "will" is used in other instances. So I suggest replacing every instance of "shall" (e.g. 1:6, 1:11) with the more commonly used "will". --[[User:MarcoT|MarcoT]] 08:32, 12 June 2010 (EDT)
I suggest replacing "shall" with "will"; after all the purpose of this project is to use more modern language, and "shall" is increasingly becoming obsolete. Furthermore, this change would improve internal consistency, as "will" is used in other instances. So I suggest replacing every instance of "shall" (e.g. 1:6, 1:11) with the more commonly used "will". --[[User:MarcoT|MarcoT]] 08:32, 12 June 2010 (EDT)
== Tense of YHWH as a verb ==
I was taught that God's Hebrew name (which my computer does not support typing) combines elements of the present, past, and future forms of "to be" into some impossible grammatical conjugation. The future form is YHYH (yud-hay-yud-hay, pronounced y'hiyeh), the present form (if Hebrew had a word for the present form "is", which it doesn't), would be HVH (hay-vov-hay, pronounced hoveh), and the past form is HYH (hay-yud-hay, pronounced hayah, like you're karate-chopping somebody). I don't know if this is exclusively a Jewish concept, and it might very well be since Christians don't typically study the Bible in Hebrew, with the exception of people who are full-blown religious scholars. But the point was that God is, was, and will be. In other words, He is eternal. You kind of have to stretch your mind to see the "was" hidden in the name, but I guess that's moot anyway since if 2,000 years ago they said "is", it's clear that He "was" at this current time anyway (and still "is" and "will be"). [[User:Gregkochuconn|Gregkochuconn]] 16:10, 21 July 2012 (EDT)