Yhwh
The Lying Murderer from the Genesis John 8:44
John 8:44 is the verdict after the temple argument, and Jesus never gives that father a personal name. The talk says the father He describes is the one the crowd serves, Yhwh.
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Summary
The talk treats John 8:44 as the verdict of the temple argument, and notes that Jesus never names the father. A father is identified by what the children do, so Abraham is ruled out by behavior: he honored Melchizedek, and these men are trying to kill Jesus. They claim one father in John 8:41. Five tests for the Father's likeness come back negative, because the family they belong to is Yhwh's.
From the beginning means the garden. Yhwh's threat was death on the day they ate, the same kind of day-marker as Solomon's threat in 1 Kings 2, and they did not die that day. The nachash said they would be like Elohim, and Yhwh said they had become like Elohim, then blocked the tree of life. Devil means the accuser, which the talk ties to a spirit volunteering before Yhwh to deceive Ahab, and to 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles 21 telling one census under two names, Yhwh and Satan.
Deuteronomy 32:8–9 is read as the Most High dividing the nations and Yhwh receiving Jacob. The Trinity is called a later stand-in for that council, settled by vote at Nicaea under Constantine, and it conceals the split. Heracleon, in the earliest commentary on John, around 170, already read John 8:44 as the god the crowd worshiped. The closing claim is that one context covers the discourses: the father Jesus describes is Yhwh, and the gospel is Jesus rescuing people from Yhwh's death.
