Jiang identifies the heresy in Adam's speech as the claim that even the name of God changes over time rather than remaining fixed and immutable.
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Name of God
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"Verse 124. The tongue I spoke was all extinct before the men of Nimrod set their minds upon the unaccompanied. For never has anything..."
"Okay. So there's heresy here. What is the heresy? Yes."
"...is saying is, no, it's all change. We change the name of God over time. And that was just a natural change. It's a..."
"...like, Elowen or something, which used to be an old name of God in the Old Testament. So he was called Jehovah. He was..."
"...hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God,"
"...Yahwist? It is convention because she uses Yahweh as the name of God and other writers too. They don't actually use Yahweh as the..."
"...why are they doing this? They're doing it in the name of God. Okay? Every city -state has a patron god that it believes..."
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