god? why did they decide on this name? where does it comefrom and does it mean anything? does he have parents?
2006-06-17 02:27:40 · 18 answers · asked by gin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i want to know who exactly came up with the name god....how can someone name themselves?
2006-06-17 02:33:20 · update #1
1. His personal name is who God is. It is not a title or a place holder or a description. The name signifies that HE IS WHO HE IS. It is a denotation that God is the fullness of being and what it means to be.
2. God revealed it to Moses. Before that He went by other fittings descriptive names that people gave to Him (it is a bear to wrap your mind around the true name of God for it is a very heady thing) and we still refere to God by such other names (God for example).
3. It is written YHWH in Hebrew. Classical Hebrew doesn't have any vowels so exactly how it is said has been lost to time.
4. No God is has no parents because He always was. Before there was space, before there was time, before all things He existed.
2006-06-17 02:45:41 · answer #1 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 6⤊ 3⤋
(Je·ho´vah) [the causative form, the imperfect state, of the Heb. verb ha·wah´ (become); meaning “He Causes to Become”].
The personal name of God. (Isa 42:8; 54:5) Though Scripturally designated by such descriptive titles as “God,” “Sovereign Lord,” “Creator,” “Father,” “the Almighty,” and “the Most High,” his personality and attributes—who and what he is—are fully summed up and expressed only in this personal name.—Ps 83:18.
Correct Pronunciation of the Divine Name. “Jehovah” is the best known English pronunciation of the divine name, although “Yahweh” is favored by most Hebrew scholars. The oldest Hebrew manuscripts present the name in the form of four consonants, commonly called the Tetragrammaton (from Greek te·tra-, meaning “four,” and gram´ma, “letter”). These four letters may be transliterated into English as YHWH (or, JHVH).
The Hebrew consonants of the name are therefore known. The question is, Which vowels are to be combined with those consonants? Vowel points did not come into use in Hebrew until the second half of the first millennium C.E. Furthermore, because of a religious superstition that had begun centuries earlier, the vowel pointing found in Hebrew manuscripts does not provide the key for determining which vowels should appear in the divine name.
2006-06-17 04:45:08 · answer #2 · answered by WannaKnowMore? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will let someone who is familiar with hebrew answer your question concerning the origin of the name God. Concerning his parents: God has not parents. God is eternal, that is, he has always existed. This is difficult for finite creatures such as human beings to understand. It is just one of those things that you have to accept on faith. If God had parents, then who would their parents be? There has to a an origin at some point from which you cannot go backwards any farther, and God is that point. The most important consideration is that Jesus loves you and died for you. The Bible says that he is God. Trust in Jesus and walk with him. Leave all the complicated questions to theologians that have nothing else better to do than ponder over the origin of God.
2006-06-17 02:36:11 · answer #3 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God named himself...Jehovah. He told Moses to tell the Pharaoh his personal name. Even Jesus used it when he referred to his father in heaven. Jehovah means" he causes to become" So Jehovah does cause all things to be created. Oh yes, Jehovah did not have parents...He always was and always will be. He is eternal. Hurts your head to think of that doesn't it?
2006-06-17 02:33:39 · answer #4 · answered by Gail B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name 'God' comes from the Greek word Jehovah, the original name for the Lord./
2006-06-17 02:30:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is a god by virtue of his attributes, the things He can do.
His name among many, is Father. God has no parents.
2006-06-17 02:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by slowhand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question!
Man named 'God'
God is everything that everyone sees, thinks and does - creation itself!
Divine Creation does not have a parent, It is pure energy!
2006-06-18 01:03:39 · answer #7 · answered by lit_spirit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is his title not his name and I believe that he had to have parents, Just like Jesus is God's son.
2006-06-17 03:00:36 · answer #8 · answered by twinkletoes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got a problem
what have you lost recently
or Since you are too scared to stand before anybody, you decided to stand before GOD and question HIS integrity
2006-06-17 02:36:29 · answer #9 · answered by Irfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesnt have parents, He is the Father of us all.
God told people what His name was waaaay back in Adam and Eves times... but is sounds different and is spelt different in other languages.
Yaweh, Elohim, and many other names can be used.
i call Him Father, Lord, Jesus.... or simply....Dad :-)
2006-06-17 02:31:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋