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97:0.1 The [[spiritual]] [[leaders]] of the [[Hebrews]] did what no others before them had ever succeeded in doing—they deanthropomorphized their [[God]] [[concept]] without converting it into an [[abstraction]] of [[Deity]] [[comprehensible]] only to philosophers. Even common people were able to regard the [[matured]] [[concept]] of [[Yahweh]] as a [[Father]], if not of the [[individual]], at least of the [[race]].

97:0.1 The [[spiritual]] [[leaders]] of the [[Hebrews]] did what no others before them had ever succeeded in doing—they deanthropomorphized their [[God]] [[concept]] without converting it into an [[abstraction]] of [[Deity]] [[comprehensible]] only to philosophers. Even common people were able to regard the [[matured]] [[concept]] of [[Yahweh]] as a [[Father]], if not of the [[individual]], at least of the [[race]].

97:0.2 The [[concept]] of the [[personality]] of [[God]], while clearly taught at [[Salem]] in the days of [[Melchizedek]], was vague and hazy at the time of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_Exodus flight from Egypt] and only [[gradually]] evolved in the [[Hebraic]] [[mind]] from [[generation]] to [[generation]] in [[response]] to the teaching of the [[spiritual]] [[leaders]]. The [[perception]] of [[Yahweh]]'s [[personality]] was much more continuous in its [[progressive]] [[evolution]] than was that of many other of the [[Deity]] [[attributes]]. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi Malachi] there occurred an almost unbroken ideational [[growth]] of the [[personality]] of [[God]] in the [[Hebrew]] [[mind]], and this [[concept]] was [[eventually]] heightened and [[glorified]] by the teachings of [[Jesus]] about [[the Father]] in [[heaven]].

97:0.2 The [[concept]] of the [[personality]] of [[God]], while clearly taught at [[Salem]] in the days of [[Melchizedek]], was vague and hazy at the time of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_Exodus flight from Egypt] and only [[gradually]] evolved in the [[Hebraic]] [[mind]] from [[generation]] to [[generation]] in [[response]] to the teaching of the [[spiritual]] [[leaders]]. The [[perception]] of [[Yahweh]]'s [[personality]] was much more continuous in its [[progressive]] [[evolution]] than was that of many other of the [[Deity]] [[attributes]]. From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi Malachi] there occurred an almost unbroken ideational [[growth]] of the [[personality]] of [[God]] in the [[Hebrew]] [[mind]], and this [[concept]] was [[eventually]] heightened and [[glorified]] by the teachings of [[Jesus]] about [[the Father]] in [[heaven]].

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[[Category: Paper 97 - Evolution of the God Concept Among the Hebrews]]

[[Category: Paper 97 - Evolution of the God Concept Among the Hebrews]]