Yahweh the ‘thunder god’
He appears to Moses in flames of fire, thunder, lightening and cloud. He continued to be remembered in the Hebrew history as a thunder god. Like the storm God Baal, Yahweh was known as the ‘rider of the clouds.’
At times like many Yahweh’s contemporaries, he is pictured as a war god too. In Exodus,(15:3) he is pictured as warrior god. ‘God of hosts’ is his frequent title. He displayed his warring nature as a storm god only. ‘It was only by a blast of his nostrils that he made the Red Sea do his will (let the Chosen people pass) and it was by a storm that he overrun the Canaanites.
He was simply a personification of the powers of nature, one of the ten nature gods worshipped in the early period. In the course of thousands of years he evolved into a universal god with love as his chief attribute. But those who conceived Yahweh never even thought him of as a loving god at all.
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