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YHVH in the ''Megami Tensei'' franchise represents the God of the Abrahamic religions. Thought to have originally been a minor | 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 was seen as the supreme creator of the universe and all that is in it, and is considered 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.' | ||