YHWH: The Unchanging God in His Activity
YHWH: The Unchanging God in His Activity By Alva Mantiri --- Introduction: A Shocking Question For centuries, Christian theology has defined God's eternity as static immutability — a God who is silent, motionless, unchanging. This definition sounds safe, but there is one problem: the Bible never describes God that way. The Bible describes a God who works (John 5:17), who walks (Genesis 3:8), who relents (Genesis 6:6), who appears (Genesis 18:1), who speaks (Hebrews 1:1), who saves (Exodus 3:8), and who is present (Exodus 3:14). The God of the Bible is a living God — not a silent idol. This article will show that: 1. God's name — YHWH — is the revelation of His identity. 2. That revealed identity is activity — not static immutability. 3. Everything outside the name — including the claim "God does not change" — is a support for that identity, not a contradiction to it. --- Part 1: A Name Is an Indicator of Identity A. In Human Concept A name, in human concept, is an ...