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<blockquote data-quote="NoOneofConsequence" data-source="post: 316407" data-attributes="member: 5400">I don't feel in the least bit offended, or that you are being disparaging in any way. It seems to me that we are having an off topic difference of historical opinion in a civilised manner (is this the internet?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )However, concerning early Judeo-Christianity, my point still stands. No one, Jewish or Christian, take the notion of the tetragrammeton seriously from a theological perspective. That doesn't mean to say that other belief systems, like occultism, haven't borrowed J-C terms to describe something which they believe in or practice.To draw a parallel, 1e DnD had stats for Asmodeus and Satan, but you wouldn't call it a Christian game.Postmodern theory explanation: On the fringes of a discourse there is slippage across the boundaries of meaning, and the tetragrammeton is one of these, however, it has never moved sufficiently into Christian discourse to justify being described as Christian.Damn, am I an academic or what!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="NoOneofConsequence, post: 316407, member: 5400"] I don't feel in the least bit offended, or that you are being disparaging in any way. It seems to me that we are having an off topic difference of historical opinion in a civilised manner (is this the internet?;) ) However, concerning early Judeo-Christianity, my point still stands. No one, Jewish or Christian, take the notion of the tetragrammeton seriously from a [I]theological[/I] perspective. That doesn't mean to say that other belief systems, like occultism, haven't borrowed J-C terms to describe something which they believe in or practice. To draw a parallel, 1e DnD had stats for Asmodeus and Satan, but you wouldn't call it a [I]Christian[/I] game. Postmodern theory explanation: On the fringes of a discourse there is slippage across the boundaries of meaning, and the tetragrammeton is one of these, however, it has never moved sufficiently into Christian discourse to justify being described as Christian. Damn, am I an academic or what!:rolleyes: ;) [/QUOTE]

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