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1 | What NAME do we call our GOD? Ex 3:14 | Ex 3:15 | any2willdo7 | 165625 | ||
KJV Ps. 83:18 "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth." God's name is Jehovah. |
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2 | What NAME do we call our GOD? Ex 3:14 | Ex 3:15 | Searcher56 | 165638 | ||
It is YHWH or YHVH ... | ||||||
3 | What NAME do we call our GOD? Ex 3:14 | Ex 3:15 | Matthew of La Conchita | 165641 | ||
If the Jews refused to say His name, one reason could be that they hesitated to give a manmade 'name' to a being that is infinitely above man. This would make sense given the lessons they learned after making graven images. Do you see the tie? We know that the 'name' of God was somewhat of a mystery to early Jews and that the mystery was solved in a little town in Bethlehem. Yet even today, we can be in a room with 10 other people and all of us can have different meanings when they say “god”. I would mean “the God of Abraham, Issiac and Jacob, the I AM (my personal favorite), the God who created the universe and whom came down in the form of a baby, born by the virgin, named Jesus (Savior), who died on a cross in our place for our sins in order to restore us to Himself, named King of all Kings etc.… (insert creed here). Another standing next to me would say that their god is allah or baal or some cosmic being with no form or name; and on and on... I find that naming God is a lifelong work. What I mean by ‘naming’ is that we are attempting to get to know that person to an extent that we can really mean something when we call His name. His name is truly found in the relationship with Him and I have only begun to define it, though, it is becoming clearer as I walk with Him and study, and ask Him. When we are speaking to others, we show them Jesus and the Bible. But we cannot get them to believe, that is the work of the Spirit, thus we learn the name of God, the name above all names. And when they are brought to the saving knowledge of Christ, they begin the same journey that we are on… getting to know the God of the universe, the One true God and knowing what He has for us in His plan. This is a little philosophical, and it is not meant to take away from the earlier notes only to add to them, so take it as you will. The best way to get to know the name of God is to search for Spiritual movement within the scriptures and through prayer, and interaction with other Christians. |
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4 | What NAME do we call our GOD? Ex 3:14 | Ex 3:15 | kalos | 165649 | ||
The Jews refused to say God's name because they KNEW His name and knew that God had already stricken people dead for misusing it. They refused to say His name for fear that God would punish them with death if they misused it. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not make My name Yahweh known to them. (Holman Christian Standard Bible® Exodus 6:3) '“Yahweh” [YHWH] is not one of God’s names—it is his only name. Other titles, like “El Shadday,” are not strictly names but means of revealing Yahweh.' (Study note at Exodus 6:3, The NET Bible, www.bible.org/netbible/exo6_notes.htm) The name 'YHWH' appears almost 7,000 times in the OT. However, in the KJV YHWH is usually translated as 'LORD.' 'Yahweh/Yah (or Jehovah). yhwh (or JHVH), the tetragrammaton because of its four letters, is, strictly speaking, the only proper name for God. It is also the most frequent name, occurring in the Old Testament 6,828 times (almost 700 times in the Psalms alone). Yah is a shortened form that appears fifty times in the Old Testament, including forty-three occurrences in the Psalms, often in the admonition "hallelu-jah" (lit. praise Jah). English Bibles represent the name yhwh by the title "LORD" (written in capitals to distinguish it from "lord" [adonai]. The Septuagint rendered yhwh as kyrios (Lord).' ____________________ (Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi) |
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