Do you know God by name?

Question

Im curious how many people here feel like they know God by name.
I do, but how many here do? Do you USE his name? Do you feel like it is important? Again, I do, but what do you think?

Well, I have a name. Don't you? Even pets have names! Having names is part of having a relationship with someone, don't you agree? If you want to have a relationship with God, don't you think we should know his name? Its funny how many of people around the world will say they worship God but yet they don't use his personal name. "You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth." (Psalm 83:18) God himself said: "They will have to know that my name is Jehovah." (Jeremiah 16:21) Even Isaiah wrote "Give thanks to Jehovah, you people! Call upon his name. Make known among the peoples his dealings. Make mention that his name is put on high."—Isaiah 12:4. The Apostle Peter quoting the Hebrew Scriptures in a speech: "Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved."—Acts 2:21.
We can have a wonderful relationship and be his friend by knowing him by name and by calling him by name. "he is not far off from each one of us."—Acts 17:27.

FYI
Do you know what Hallelujah means??
Hallelujah—The English transliteration of the Hebrew expression ha·lelu-Yah´, meaning "praise Jah," or "praise Jah, you people."

Jah—A poetic shortened form of the name of God, Jehovah. It appears in the Bible more than 50 times, often as part of the expression "Hallelujah."

Answer 1

It is true that the Almighty did not say, "Listen, thousands of years from now when a new language called English comes along, they can pronounce my name as 'Jehovah' and that's fine."

Instead, like with any and every personal name, different languages TRANSLATE personal names to fit their lingual tendencies. George becomes "Hor-hey" in Spanish or "Gay-org" in German and no one gets upset.

It's not exactly wrong to call the Almighty by the impersonal "God", just as it's not wrong to call one's offspring "Child". If we want a familiar and close relationship, however, it makes sense to use the personal name of someone we love. The Scriptures encourage us to use God's personal name.

The Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) does seem to accurately pronounce the divine name. Just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English.

The important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! The name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God” or “Lord”, especially if you speak Hebrew. If you speak English, feel free to use the name "Jehovah".

(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth

(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/na/

Answer 2

German professor Gustav Friedrich Oehler discussed various pronunciations and concluded: “From this point onward I use the word Jehovah, because, as a matter of fact, this name has now become more naturalized in our vocabulary, and cannot be supplanted.”—Theologie des Alten Testaments (Theology of the Old Testament), second edition, published in 1882, page 143.

Similarly, in his Grammaire de l’hébreu biblique (Grammar of Biblical Hebrew), 1923 edition, in a footnote on page 49, Jesuit scholar Paul Joüon states: “In our translations, instead of the (hypothetical) form Yahweh, we have used the form Jéhovah . . . which is the conventional literary form used in French.”

The Jerusalem Bible, though preferring “Yahweh” to “Jehovah,” makes a strong point for using it instead of “Lord.” The preface of that translation states: “To say, ‘The Lord is God’ is surely a tautology [a needless repetition], as to say ‘Yahweh is God’ is not.”

Wolfgang Feneberg comments in the Jesuit magazine Entschluss/Offen (April 1985): “He [Jesus] did not withhold his father’s name YHWH from us, but he entrusted us with it. It is otherwise inexplicable why the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer should read: ‘May your name be sanctified!’” Feneberg further notes that “in pre-Christian manuscripts for Greek-speaking Jews, God’s name was not paraphrased with kýrios [Lord], but was written in the tetragram form [YHWH] in Hebrew or archaic Hebrew characters. . . . We find recollections of the name in the writings of the Church Fathers;


Yes, Jehovah has provided his name so that everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.

Answer 3

Your reasoning is faulty on many levels.

If HE felt it was really important to know and use His name, don't you think he would have preserved it so that we could actually know it and use it properly? Do you think it's important to celebrate the birth of Christ? No? Why not? Because -you say - if it was important, then He would have told us what day to celebrate it.

Likewise with his name. Is he really upset with us that we don't know for sure what his name is? I He could have had it preserved for us if that was a priority with Him.

f you read the New Testament, you'll find that it's the name of Jesus that is emphasized for Christians. It says in Acts that it was by divine providence that the name Christian was used;...According to your reasoning, providence should have used the name of Jehovah or Yahweh.

You don't call your earthly father by his proper name. You don't need to call him by a proper name to have a close relationship with him. How would that bring you closer?

Of course you know his name. But if you speak to someone ABOUT him, do you show disrespect if you say "My father" instead of Jim, for example.

In fact, if you told me that Jim Smith died, I might say "who"? It would be meaningless to me. But if you say "My father died", that is more meaningful to me - I then recognize something important about the person behind the name.

the name Jehovah didn't even come about until about 700 years ago. Does that mean that all those people who lived in the intervening centuries couldn't have a relationship with him?

Why did Paul identify God, not by a personal name, but by saying that we have one god - the Father. Why didn't he use a personal name? Are you saying that Paul couldn't have a close relationship with him because he called him Father?

Answer 4

Jehovah. Yes I use his name and feel it's very important to do so. How can you have a close relationship with God if you don't even know his name.

Answer 5

Call God by any name you like. God has the most beautiful of all names in all cultures and in all societies and languages. Just as long the name does not conjure up a mental picture call God what you like.

Answer 6

I know what names I use in specific circumstances, but generally I refer to Him as "Father God".

Answer 7

Which one?

God
Jehovah
Yahweh
YHWH
Elohim
I AM
Israel
Abba
Allah
Jah
Bab

For that matter, which God?
Shiva
Vishnu
Brahma
Odin
Wotan
Quetzalcoatl
Apollo
Zeus
Enki
Flying Spaghetti Monster

Answer 8

will im muslim and thank god 4 that
and in islam god has 99 name (allah)

http://www.islamcall.com/allah.htm

Answer 9

I do not know God yet.
I know of Him, but I do not kow Him.
Pray for me.
God be with you.