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Originally posted by shinerbock
Are you sure? I'm a Baptist, and one time consistant church attender, and I was always under the impression that Yahweh was God the Father. I have always understood that Jews and us have different views on it, that it is not to be spoken aloud by Jewish people, but I've never heard that Christians consider Yahweh to be Jesus.
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Quite sure. Reread the Gospel of John and see just how many times Jesus equates to himself the title "I Am," which is what YHWH means. As just one example, in John 8:58, Jesus says, "Before Abraham was, I am. (It's much clearer in the Greek that he is intentionaly using the "I Am" appellation, but it still comes through in English.)
In Judaism, YHWH is the name of God, which as you said should not be spoken. And in Christianity, God the Father = YHWH, God the Son = YHWH, God the Spirit =YHWH, because even though Father, Son and Spirit are three, they are also one.