So the suggestion was made that YHWH meant “I am who I am.” In our day theologian Paul Tillich would translate this name for God as “the Ground of Being.” Others sought to clarify this idea, suggesting that this name meant “I will be what I will be” or “I am that which causes all things to be.” So this set of four unpronounceable letters became a symbol, a Jewish symbol if you will, for that which is ultimate, holy and real. In this way of approaching the “Holy” the Jews were suggesting that God could be experienced, but never defined. Likewise “transcendence” and “being” could be experienced,
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