why would it be important for God to reveal to the world that He was not merely El Shaddai, a very powerful force—but YHVH, the one Creator-God? The answer should now be evident. It wasn’t just a matter of divine ego, or dispensing with false competition from imaginary gods. It was about changing the very meaning of spirituality. It was a matter of introducing the ideas of gratitude, morality and love into the vocabulary of human interaction with the Divine. It was a matter of revealing to mankind that there was a Parent up there in the heavens, a parent who cared about what went on with His
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