19. Is God Good? - Part 3
This is the nineteenth article in the series From Particles to Angels . If you are interested in this article you should read the previous articles in the series in order, beginning with the first ( On Happiness ). What kind of God is Yahweh? In the article: In the Beginning: Water - Part 1 , we learned about a variety of typical elements and themes in religions from around the world and down through the ages. From that point of view, what kind of a god is the Hebrew Yahweh (יהוה)? The god of the Old Testament. The god of Judaism. The Jewish name for God. In popular culture God is sometimes represented as apt to strike people down with lightning for wrongdoing. This would be typical of a storm god, such as Zeus/Jupiter who wielded the thunderbolt. "Jupiter of Smyrna" c.250 AD (This image is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus where it is available as "in the public domain".) We saw that storm gods were a common feature of ancient religions