27._ Unique

Is therefore a mythical god the God of the Israelites? Doubtlessly, judging by the stories of the Bible, he often has all its characteristics; as it could be expected, since Israel is a town of the human history, like all the others. But, there is something more in that God? We think that yes, basing us on such Biblical texts.

We think that the revelation and the message of the trascendent God are contained in the Old Testament, as a hidden harmony in the middle of the "human noise"; that it is only perceived by who listens with attention and knows "to filter" those disturbing noises. Nevertheless, when it is noticed, it is clear that the message and the characteristics of the true God are not secondary nor marginal, but central and outstanding aspects of Biblical writings.

The God of Israel is not a god among other gods; He does not coexists, neither He fights, nor He agrees, nor He dominates or is dominated, nor becames related, with other gods of Israel nor of other towns. He is an emphatically unique, jealous, God, that detests of those "idols". He does not admit figurations nor representations of Himself either, of any kind; nor He tolerates that His Holy Name is pronounced with lightness. No man can be able "to see" His face, nor to stay in His presence.

We think that these characteristics are revelations of the trascendence; no mythical god is that "unique"; no mythical god is so irrepresentable for the human knowledge; but the Last Newness, is not the "whole" and the "very uniqueness", is not the emergence of which cannot be conceived from the previous levels, is not the complete and absolute aim of the human ethical and aesthetic tendencies, that as so does not admit partial and intermediate alternatives, alterations, or stagnations?