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YHVH in the ''Megami Tensei'' franchise represents the God of the Abrahamic religions. Thought to have originally been a minor Semitic war and storm god, and a national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, he was worshiped alongside other Canaanite deities such as [[Asherah]], [[Baal]], and El. Centuries later YHVH became conflated with El, gaining epithets such as [[Shaddai|El Shaddai]]. Over time YHVH would become seen as the supreme creator of the universe and all that is in it, and is now considered by | YHVH in the ''Megami Tensei'' franchise represents the God of the Abrahamic religions. Thought to have originally been a minor Semitic war and storm god, and a national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, he was worshiped alongside other Canaanite deities such as [[Asherah]], [[Baal]], and El. Centuries later YHVH became conflated with El, gaining epithets such as [[Shaddai|El Shaddai]]. Over time YHVH would become seen as the supreme creator of the universe and all that is in it, and is now considered by the Abrahamic religions to be the only god: the existence of all other gods is rejected. These religions teach that YHVH is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-present, and that he is a benevolent deity. Most Christian denominations consider God to be a trinity of one God in three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit), but this doctrine is rejected in Judaism, Islam, and nontrinitarian Christianity. | ||
The name YHVH{{Note|{{Translit|Hebrew|יהוה|yhwh}}}} (also rendered as YHWH or JHVH), referred to as the Tetragrammaton (Greek for "[name of] four letters"), is used in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament as the personal name of God. The name is derived from the Hebrew verb meaning "to be,"{{Note|{{Translit|Hebrew|הָיָה|hāyâ}}}}<ref name="lewis">{{Cite Book|book=The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity|page=p. 214|author=Theodore J. Lewis|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn={{ISBN|978-0190072544}}|quote=Rather, the consensus of scholarship is certainly correct that ''yhwh'' represents a verbal form, with the ''y-'' representing the third masculine singular verbal prefix of the verb ''hyh'' 'to be.' | The name YHVH{{Note|{{Translit|Hebrew|יהוה|yhwh}}}} (also rendered as YHWH or JHVH), referred to as the Tetragrammaton (Greek for "[name of] four letters"), is used in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament as the personal name of God. The name is derived from the Hebrew verb meaning "to be,"{{Note|{{Translit|Hebrew|הָיָה|hāyâ}}}}<ref name="lewis">{{Cite Book|book=The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity|page=p. 214|author=Theodore J. Lewis|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn={{ISBN|978-0190072544}}|quote=Rather, the consensus of scholarship is certainly correct that ''yhwh'' represents a verbal form, with the ''y-'' representing the third masculine singular verbal prefix of the verb ''hyh'' 'to be.' | ||