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Originally posted by dontreally
"I can be FOUND, in whatever I will be".edit on 14-10-2012 by dontreally because: (no reason given)
Maybe I'm reading that wrong (after all, this thread is about reading it wrong) but doesn't that say that God is either everything or that he simply is whatever you want him to be? Is that almost a statement promoting animism?
Originally posted by dontreally
So, contrary to being simply 'animism', it is Monotheism; instead of God being splintered from the particular by investing the particular with a particular 'anima' (soul), it means, on the contrary, that the one God can be found in all situations; each event in a persons life poses a unique challenge, and in this challenge, man is challenged to respond to the situation in accord with his underlying belief in a God of 'love' and 'mercy' as the biblical God presents himself as.
ehyeh" is the first person singular imperfect form and is usually translated in English Bibles as "I will be" (or "I shall be"), for example, at Exodus 3:12. Ehyeh asher ehyeh literally translates as "I Will Be What I Will Be", with attendant theological and mystical implications in Jewish tradition. However, in most English Bibles, this phrase is rendered as I am that I am."[1]
"I am that I am" has nothing to do with future becoming, conceptually
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by Visitor2012
"I am that I am" has nothing to do with future becoming, conceptually
You have essentially ignored the whole purpose of the thread.
The phrase ehyeh asher ehyeh is in the imperfect future.
It is not 'I am", but "I will be".
You may stick to the old way of interpretation in line with the septuagint and vulgate, but they are incorrect translations having nothing to do with the theology intimated by the grammatical future tense of the word ehyeh "I will be".