Historicity of Jesus - 2

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Consider what a pit must have been in Paul’s stomach when he entered Rome. There the greatest temple stood on the Capitoline Hill, the temple of Jupiter or Jove Pater, the great father of the gods. Jove is a hard word to trace. It is the older form of the name for the great god Diespiter or Dyaus Pita, used only by the Latins. Where did they get it? Wherever, in Latin J is pronounce Y and V is always pronounced W. <b>Thus the pronunciation was almost if not identical to the Tetragrammaton: YOWEH.   </b>“Father Yoweh.” Can you imagine Paul being shown the great temple and seeing the colossal statute of Yoweh Pater inside; a Jew actually hearing the NAME commonly pronounced and being shown an image of a bearded stately old man as representative of Yoweh? No wonder he began Romans with:  <i>Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man.</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->