Ted Porter (24 Apr 2005)
"Re:Human Skeleton & YHVH"


In regard to the several posts on the Human Skeleton, in particular:

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2005/tng422-2.htm

First, I had never noticed what the Tetragammaton looked like vertically:

Y = Head
H = Arms
V = I'm thinking main Body including ribs, shoulders, and pelvis, just
not the spine
H = Legs

Looks like a human body in English.  Reminded me of how it has been
shown the first Temple in Jerusalem was in the shape of a human body and
that the number 4 is identified in "The Arithmetic of God" = The first
creation and the flesh.

But what really struck me was the mention that there are three different
unique letters that make up the name of God.  I guess this is obvious if
one thinks about it, but there's the rub.  Anyway this immediately
brought thoughts of the Trinity being embedded in the name of God.  I'd
be surprised if I was the first one to think of this but this is the
first time I thought of it.  Clearly we have the Head which is God the
Father, (Y) or in English, (Jah), the Holy Spirit in the extremities
which goes out from the Body of Christ in the arms and the legs.  Christ
sent the comforter out to us and is now in all believers.  We ourselves
have been given the power as long as it is in accordance with the will
of God to transfer God's Holy Spirit through the laying on of our own
hands.  Likewise water is often associated with the Holy Spirit as water
baptism symbolizes spirit baptism and we are told to "wash the feet" of
fellow believers, (John 13:14).    The letter (H) was added to the name
Abram to make Abraham and the name Sarai to make Sarah, to represent
that the Holy Spirit which was now within them.  And last we have Jesus
Christ, the Body, (V), which was broken for the remission of our sins
and we are now the body of Christ.  We also can identify ourselves as
Christians on the internet by using what is really three V's on their
sides, i.e. <><, symbolic of a fish.

I may be more picking up on this now because the Lord apparently brought
a couple of Jehovah's witnesses my way and one started out by
introducing himself and his friend, asking my name, and asking the name
of God, to which I replied YHVH, which he said he was surprised I knew.
Anyway I knew they denied that Jesus was God but they asked and I let
them know that He was, coeternal, along with the Father and the Holy
Spirit.  They also asked about Jesus being that day in Paridise with the
thief and I responded that they both were there in spirit but it wasn't
till after 3 days and 3 nights in the ground that He physically rose
from the dead.  He then said that God actually dematerialized Christ's
body in the grave.  That was the first time I had heard this.  Which
means there must be a whole lot of verses they've had to change to deny
the bodily resurrection of Christ in the version of the bible they carry
around.  Someone else said that if a religion starts off by getting the
basic nature of God wrong, i.e. His triune nature, they don't just get
this part wrong, but for some reason they seem to get the other basic
things wrong as well.  Got that right.  I'd been thinking more along the
lines that satan mixes 98% truth with 2% lie and that poisons the whole.

Anyway, also liked the imagery of the breastplate in the center of our
body being three bones that fuse into one as an image of the trinity.
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Thanks, Ted. I'll write more tomorrow. :)
John