Does God have a name?

[rEVOLVEr]

Does God have a name?
If so, what is that?

 

[seekandlisten]

Can we describe God? Does God need a name?

 

[seekandlisten]

The bible calls Him Yahweh, the Qur'an calls Him Allah, many 'eastern religions' refer to Him as Enlightenment. Basically mankind has assigned our Creator with many names. Are any of them right, any of them wrong? I don't think it's a big issue as when you talk to God I'm sure He knows you are addressing Him.

 

[mondar]

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

 

[JoJo]

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

He is! :amen

 

[rEVOLVEr]

Can we describe God? Does God need a name?

I don't know whether you could describe God. If you could, I would be interested to hear that.
"Does God need a name?" I would think so. All gods in the history of mankind had names.

 

[rEVOLVEr]

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

You may think otherwise but IF there is a heaven, I have a really good shot going there and I would like to be polite with the host.
What should I say? "Drear Mr. I AM THAT I AM"?

 

[Free]

"Does God need a name?" I would think so.

I agree. We can't even have a conversation about "God" if we don't know who we are talking about. Most religions have irreconcilably different ideas about who or what "God" is. The Christian God has a name for at least one reason: He has a personality; He is a Person, so to speak; He is immanent.

What should I say? "Drear Mr. I AM THAT I AM"?

Iirc, "I AM THAT I AM," comes from or is related to YHWH ("to be"), transliterated as Yahweh. It's been a while since I looked into that but I'm sure someone will verify or clarify.

 

[rEVOLVEr]

"Does God need a name?" I would think so.

I agree. We can't even have a conversation about "God" if we don't know who we are talking about. Most religions have irreconcilably different ideas about who or what "God" is. The Christian God has a name for at least one reason: He has a personality; He is a Person, so to speak; He is immanent.

What should I say? "Drear Mr. I AM THAT I AM"?

Iirc, "I AM THAT I AM," comes from or is related to YHWH ("to be"), transliterated as Yahweh. It's been a while since I looked into that but I'm sure someone will verify or clarify.

Thank you.
Is Jehovah the same as Yahweh?

 

[mondar]

"Does God need a name?" I would think so.

I agree. We can't even have a conversation about "God" if we don't know who we are talking about. Most religions have irreconcilably different ideas about who or what "God" is. The Christian God has a name for at least one reason: He has a personality; He is a Person, so to speak; He is immanent.

What should I say? "Drear Mr. I AM THAT I AM"?

Iirc, "I AM THAT I AM," comes from or is related to YHWH ("to be"), transliterated as Yahweh. It's been a while since I looked into that but I'm sure someone will verify or clarify.

Thank you.
Is Jehovah the same as Yahweh?

There is no such thing as a "J" in Hebrew. The tetragrammaton has some small amount of history behind it. The Jewish script was originally a consonantal language only. Originally Hebrew was written in the Paleo-Hebrew Script. It takes a specialist to read that stuff and very few people know Paleo-Hebrew. Their original alphabet was borrowed from the Pheonecians I believe. I do not know if Paleo-Hebrew is a consonental language as the more modern Jewish script. About the time of Ezra they began using the more modern Jewish script. So the name of God in the scriptures went through a script change. Then a little after the time of Christ, the masoretic scribes added consonants to the language. Unfortunately, these scribes did not add the vowels to the name of God. They did this out of reverence. So the exact pronunciation of the vowels in the name YHWH has been lost. I dont know who later inserted the vowels to the name or how that happened. By the way... if you read modern Hebrew, they dropped the vowels out of their language again. The only people that use vowel pointings in Hebrew are usually Christians.

I remember when I tried to study Hebrew. It did not go so well. I stink so bad I gave it up. Once I was driving through a Jewish section of a city and saw a sign in Hebrew. It was the consonants KSHR. It took me a half of a minute to figure it out. Duh!

 

[handy]

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

You may think otherwise but IF there is a heaven, I have a really good shot going there and I would like to be polite with the host.
What should I say? "Drear Mr. I AM THAT I AM"?

Since it will be at His name that your knee will bow and your tongue will confess that He is Lord, and since there is salvation in no other name, you just might want to call Him Jesus. ;)

 

[rEVOLVEr]

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

You may think otherwise but IF there is a heaven, I have a really good shot going there and I would like to be polite with the host.
What should I say? "Drear Mr. I AM THAT I AM"?

Since it will be at His name that your knee will bow and your tongue will confess that He is Lord, and since there is salvation in no other name, you just might want to call Him Jesus. ;)

According to the previous comment "There is no such thing as a "J" in Hebrew."
So, Jehovah is not good but Jesus is good?

 

[jasoncran]

i use to use that name alot when i was a jw, but it isnt really is name but the attempt to find the name(vowels) in the tetrgrammation. it was a combo YHWH, and ADONAI. if i recall correctly.

i dont like that name it is associated with jw, more than the other denomations.

 

[toddm]

According to the previous comment "There is no such thing as a "J" in Hebrew."
So, Jehovah is not good but Jesus is good?

Jesus is Greek, not Hebrew. But that's irrelevant because there's no J in the Greek either. It's the English version of Yahashua (Hebrew) & Iesous (Greek)

 

[rEVOLVEr]

According to the previous comment "There is no such thing as a "J" in Hebrew."
So, Jehovah is not good but Jesus is good?

Jesus is Greek, not Hebrew. But that's irrelevant because there's no J in the Greek either. It's the English version of Yahashua (Hebrew) & Iesous (Greek)

Hmmm.... It's getting confusing.
I think I wouldn't have to be fluent both in Hebrew and Greek to get by in Heaven. But I still don't know what's the name of God.

 

[rEVOLVEr]

i use to use that name alot when i was a jw, but it isnt really is name but the attempt to find the name(vowels) in the tetrgrammation. it was a combo YHWH, and ADONAI. if i recall correctly.

i dont like that name it is associated with jw, more than the other denomations.

That helps too. At least we can conclude that Jehovah is definitely not the name of God.
I hope everyone else agrees with this so we can move on and find the real name.

 

[rEVOLVEr]

Since it will be at His name that your knee will bow and your tongue will confess that He is Lord, and since there is salvation in no other name, you just might want to call Him Jesus. ;)

Well... I don't mean to argue a lot but as far as I know, Jesus is the son of God. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't miss him in the crowd but I still don't know the name of God.

 

[jasoncran]

keep in mind that one can use the conventant names and or the simple abba, father.

conevant names,
el-shaddai
jehovah-nissa,
jehovah-jirah

this is from the kjv, and it does use that name jehovah and i'm not a biblical scholar as i mentioned that name earlier, and it used as a tradition, since YHWH or YHVW or LORD is used where the bible says I am the LORD GOD of Isreal or anything with LORD GOD
the hebrews never pronounced the name of the lord save a few times during the day of atonement. and that was ceased and only the name was written without vowels, typical hebrew, vowels are pronounced but not written, thus the YHWH. Yahweh would be the best to use or Jesus.
adonai

a few for now.

 

[rEVOLVEr]

keep in mind that one can use the conventant names and or the simple abba, father.

conevant names,
el-shaddai
jehovah-nissa,
jehovah-jirah

this is from the kjv, and it does use that name jehovah and i'm not a biblical scholar as i mentioned that name earlier, and it used as a tradition, since YHWH or YHVW or LORD is used where the bible says I am the LORD GOD of Isreal or anything with LORD GOD
the hebrews never pronounced the name of the lord save a few times during the day of atonement. and that was ceased and only the name was written without vowels, typical hebrew, vowels are pronounced but not written, thus the YHWH. Yahweh would be the best to use or Jesus.
adonai

a few for now.

So, according to the KJV, Jehovah would be a valid name? I just want to clarify this.

 

[JudaicChristian]

i use to use that name alot when i was a jw, but it isnt really is name but the attempt to find the name(vowels) in the tetrgrammation. it was a combo YHWH, and ADONAI. if i recall correctly.

i dont like that name it is associated with jw, more than the other denomations.

That helps too. At least we can conclude that Jehovah is definitely not the name of God.
I hope everyone else agrees with this so we can move on and find the real name.

I agree that Jehovah is not His name. As a matter of fact it is a blasphemy of His name. God's name is Yahwah. The proto semitic did not use the letter E for a vowel.