God

The following information is based on events in *The Devil's Apprentice*, *The Die of Death*, *The Wrongful Death* and *The Angel of Evil* and contain spoilers.

— Jehovah to Philip Engel about Aziel Stofeles' plan

**God**, or **Jehovah** or **Yahweh** (/dʒəˈhoʊvə/, /ˈjɑːˌweɪ/), (Danish: *Gud/Jahve*) is the sole god of the Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity snd Islam. He is the creator of Earth and Heaven and the universe. He is an immortal, all-mighty and all-knowing being. God is worshipped by billions of people on Earth, and is the central figure and the sole diety in all the Abrahamic religions.

## Physical appearance

Jehovah looks like an eldery human man, with a white full beard and white hair that cascades down his back and chest in soft locks. He is big, tall and broad-shouldered, but the years have slightly bent his back, and there is a hint of bags under his eyes. Even though God seems old, he weirdly doesn't look old at all. Looking at God feels like dreaming a very good dream. God's eyes are both radiant as the sun and dark as an abyss. They are both mild eyes, and hard eyes.

When Philip Engel first meets God, the Creator was dressed in a light grey robe and wore sandals on his feet.

## Abilities

God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. But...

### Immortality

Because there are humans who believe in God, and because they believe that he is eternal, God is immortal.

### Nigh-omniscience

God cannot see everything and he does not know everything, but he knows and sees most things.

### Nigh-omnipotence

#### Creating

God created, presumably only with words, everything in the universe, including the planet Earth and humanity. He did it in what corresponds to 6 days for him, which for humans correspond to several billions of years.

## Appearances

### *The Great Devil War*

* *The Devil's Apprentice* (mentioned)
* *The Die of Death* (mentioned)
* *The Wrongful Death*
* *The Angel of Evil*
* *The Fallen Angel* (to be released in English spring 2020)
* *The Fallen Devil* (to be released in English fall 2020)

## Trivia

* In the English translation of *Dødens terning* (*The Die of Death*) God's true name is written as "Jehovah" while the original Danish version uses "Jahve". The latter is closer to "Yahweh", the most commonly accepted Latin transliteration of the original Hebrew יהוה‎ (YHWH). "Jehovah", on the other hand, is an archaic and obsolete version of the name, commonly only used by practitioners of Jehovah's Witnesses today. Although Yahweh is most common today among biblical scholars, it is not a correct transliteration either.
* Despite "Jehovah" being God's true name in the English editions of the *Great Devil War* books, while it is Jahve (Danish form of Yahweh) in the original Danish version, he is called "Yahweh" once by Lucifer in the English version of *The Wrongful Death*, while in the original Danish version of the same book, Lucifer interestingly enough calls him by the name "Jehova" (Jehovah).
* The true name of the god of Israel, Yahweh, is the most likely pronunciation of the god's name in Hebrew, יהוה "YHWH", which is not written with vowels. The name in Hebrew is a four-letter theonym and is often called "the tetragrammaton" or "the tetragramm", from Ancient Greek τετραγράμμαατον (tetragrammaton). In ancient times, it became customary for Jews to completely refrain from uttering the name of God out of awe. Instead, they read the word Adonai (my lord) where the name stood. When vowel signs were added to the Hebrew texts in the Middle Ages, the consonants of the name of Yahweh were provided with the vowels of Adonai, which resulted in the Christian world reading the name as if it were "Jehovah". The name of Yahweh is also included in the liturgical word Hallelujah, which means "praise Yahweh." The four letters of the Hebrew name, written and read from right to left, are yodh, he, waw and he. The name is thought to be derived from a verb meaning "to be", "to exist", "to cause to become" or "to come to pass." Although there is no consensus on the structure and etymology of the name, the form "Yahweh" is accepted today almost universally. The books of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) and the rest of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament or *Tanakh* in Hebrew) with the exception of Esther and Ecclesiastes, and (with a possible instance of the short form יה‎ (ye) in verse 8:6) Song of Songs contains this Hebrew name, but in most modern Bibles in other languages, the name is erased and replaced by "Lord/My Lord" or "God", in Hebrew Adonai and Elohim. In modern Hebrew Bibles, "Adonai" or "Elohim" is often written together with the name YHWH as suggestions to instead read aloud. Observant Jews and those who follow Talmudic Jewish traditions read these instead, whether it is addressing or a reference to the God of Israel. Elohim literally means "gods", but is treated as a singular word when referring to "God" - that is, Yahweh. Jews who follow this custom also use the suggested name substitutes in prayers, or HaShem ("The Name") in everyday speech.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Wrongful Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback) (Original Danish version published April 30, 2009 by Høst & Søn)