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NASB | John 20:28 Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 20:28 Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and my God!" |
Bible Question:
I and my father are one. When Christians refer to God, do they mean Jesus, and if so, why call do they call him God, and not by his name, Jesus? Recent prayer services around the world in the aftermath of the Trade Center, where gatherings of multi- deific worshippers to mourn the disaster are a case in point. Worshipers were worshiping different gods in the houses dedicated to Jesus, in the company of men supposedly dedicated to the service of the only Christ, Jesus. |
Bible Answer: "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). The line from yhwh to adonai to kyrios is significant for the Pauline statement: "And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Php 2:11)" (Note: Yahweh has also been translated (written, pronounced) as Jehovah.) (Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi). |
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