Thread:MYHERO/@comment-3234545-20190618225249

They're different beings. At the end of SMTII, YHVH says that humans need something to depend on to guide them and as long as humanity seeks his salvation, the Great Will will revive him over and over.

Here's a video of the YHVH fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFntNMe5ic8

In the video, the translation refers to the Great Will by "the will of the universe." The Aeon Genesis translation was done before Nocturne's localization, which standarized many of the terms that would be used in future English translations of Atlus games, and that's why it's refered to by a different name.

This is a video of the Japanese version of the fight, where it can be checked that the term translated as "will of the universe" is the Japanese term of the Great Will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPV-vJyBHo

Anyway, that's iron-clad evidence that they're separate beings. 