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“When the first Jewish members of the audience were plunged into baptismal waters and the name of Jesus was invoked over them, what happened was nothing less than the birth of Christianity, for it was not Yahweh who was the covenant partner, but it was Jesus Christ. In the minds of the apostles, there was only one possible revelatory explanation, for it was not that Yahweh’s place as covenant partner was superseded by Jesus Christ. There was no betrayal of Yahweh, as every Jew knows that Yahweh will not share His glory with another. It must be that, in Jewish ontological speaking, the Name of Yahweh had saved. Yahweh’s Name had now become integrated in the identification of Jesus Christ. It must mean that calling upon the name of Yahweh is realized when one calls upon the name of Jesus. It must mean as well that the idiomatic fulfillment for this covenant initiation occurs in the Name of Yahweh when the name of Jesus is uttered in covenant initiation. It must be that when someone speaks of the “Name of Jesus,” this is an ontological affirmation that the very essence of Yahweh dwells in Jesus; that Jesus is the abode of Yahweh.”
― David S. Norris, I AM: A Oneness Pentecostal Theology