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I AM also said his name was YHWH, which I clearly showed. And it is YHWH who is the Shepherd in Psalms 23:
Psa 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD [YHWH] is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psa 23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Psa 23:3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Psa 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psa 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD [YHWH] forever. (ESV)
No, not a thing changed. The I AM himself said his name was YHWH.
Exo 32:4 And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
Exo 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD [YHWH].”
Exo 32:6 And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
Exo 32:7 And the LORD [YHWH] said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
Exo 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”
Exo 32:9 And the LORD [YHWH] said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Exo 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”
Exo 32:11 But Moses implored the LORD [YHWH] his God and said, “O LORD [YHWH], why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Exo 32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.
Exo 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
Exo 32:14 And the LORD [YHWH] relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.
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Exo 32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the LORD's [YHWH's] side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him.
Exo 32:27 And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD [YHWH] God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’”
Exo 32:28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell.
Exo 32:29 And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD [YHWH], each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.”
Exo 32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD [YHWH]; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
Exo 32:31 So Moses returned to the LORD [YHWH] and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold.
Exo 32:32 But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”
Exo 32:33 But the LORD [YHWH] said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.
Exo 32:34 But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”
Exo 32:35 Then the LORD [YHWH] sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
I AM is YHWH who is the one true God, the God of Israel, who brought them out of Egypt. That Aaron said "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD [YHWH]," only means that the Golden Calf was representative of YWHW, likely copying the Egyptian idol of Apis: https://www.worldhistory.org/Apis/
But what that absolutely does not mean is that YHWH was always this false god that the Israelites worshiped. There is simply no way to conclude that from this context, since God clearly identifies himself as YHWH many times. You are basing this particular doctrine of yours on one verse in the entire Bible, where one person falsely ascribes the name YHWH to an idol. And that against another 6,498 times where this is not at all the case.
YHWH created the heavens and the earth. YHWH gave the Ten Commandments. YHWH is the name of the one true God.
No, there are not.
Now you're making up words that don't exist in the Hebrew. What is Strong's number for "Yahovah"? It is an exegetical fallacy to put two words together as though they make up another particular word.
YHWH, or Yahweh, or more incorrectly, Jehovah, is Strong's #H3068:
יְהֹוָה
yehôvâh
yeh-ho-vaw'
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.
Total KJV occurrences: 6521
The I AM, also known as YHWH, who has always existed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is my God and Saviour. That is the one true, biblical God.
