What did he mean by this?
That's a shit-tier translation.
It meant that it is itself having become itself; It is because it selfmade into what it essentially is.
>>792782
How would you translate it?
He meant that he yam what he yam
>I'm God, but I'm like BIGGER and better than the gods of others. Don't go trivializing me with names and statues, I don't get involved in the petty affairs and nuances of human politics.
>Anyway I'm backing you as my people. Leave Egypt and conquer a land where you can build a temple for me to dwell in.
>>792775
I like the Golden Calf dude a lot more, he has no problem with partying down and fucking, not like MOSES the killjoy.
It sounds like philosophy talking about the "being". I mean, it's like "I am the being".
>>792775
Remember, that's not actually how God "introduces" Himself to Moses, it's with the refrain of "I am the (ruler)-God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Rather, "I am that I am" is in response to Moses's question of
>When I get down to talk to the Israelites, and they ask me who are You, what do I say?
And while I'm not >>792782 , he's got a point. אֶהְיֶה is future tense, not present. More precise would be "I will be that will be" or perhaps in more normal English, "I am the future"
When you're coming with a message of deliverance, proclaiming that your God is the future of things, and a better future at that, is what will get people going, motivated.
>>792884
Hebrew didn't have a future tense, senpai
>>792901
What are you talking about? Of course it did. Do you really expect a language to develop without the ability to differentiate between what happened yesterday, what's happening today, and what will happen tomorrow?
I mean seriously, the entire separate branch of imperatives are all grammatically related to the future tense, and when you get to Leviticus especially, it seems like every third word is a command of some sort.
>>792884
>More precise would be "I will be that will be" or perhaps in more normal English, "I am the future"
B-but that refutes Scholastic and Neothomist theologians that say that the concept of God as pure act and pure being is in the bible because he said I am that I am.
Therefore I'm gonna ignore that. Muh traditions, muh magisterium.
>>792884
Stop calling YHWH "God"; YHWH is a djinn/daemon; it isn't God.
>>792912
Biblical Hebrew conjugated for aspect, not tense.
אֶהְיֶה is imperfect, and doesn't have any overt tense.
>>792775
Study Parmenides kiddo
>>792834
Moloch the baby eater?
>>792775
That He is the sheer essence of existence. He is to be.
>>792802
underrated
>>792775
It means he is a pseudo-intellectual faggot. Someone should have punched him in the face.
I don't know, some weird jewberrish
>>793003
Please elaborate
