why is God ?

Question

ok here goes; why do Christians call YHWH God, when his name is YHWH?

i mean Zeus was the God of thunder

Hades was the God of the dead

so does that make God , God of God ??

please explain why you do not refer to him by name as i am puzzled ?

Yahweh is the name given to God, not Jehovah !! Jehovah is the westernized re-hashed interpretation of Yahweh and it is not the name of the biblical God.

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Answer 1

It all goes back to the apparent sacredness of god's name. YHVH is short for Yud-Hey-Vav (or Wav)-Hey, letters of the Hebrew alphabet. God could never be addressed by the full name because it was too sacred to speak.

Therefore god became just that, god, or lord, or the almighty and so on. In fact, in many Jewish circles god is g-d and lord is l-rd. If, for example, a holy book was to become defaced, the name of god would not become defaced because it is not spelled out fully.

All in all it has to do with the sacredness the name holds and its importance. God, being the most important thing in the lives of many is so important that no chance of insult can ever be possible. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Maybe the word God (as in a noun word) has its roots in the English language terminology interpretations for a Supreme Being and Creator and Ruler of the world for those faiths that believe in a certain religion, that came out of the Golden Crescent area about 2,000 BC.

It also could be said that the Old Testament origins could have come from Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmopolitan culture.

There is strong evidence that the flood story originated and recorded on cuneiform clay tablets reciting the Epic Poem of Gilgamesh and Nhahmizuli epic survival of the end all floods, thousands of years before Abraham compiled Genesis. If Abraham's God told him, then that is yet to be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

If in fact most of what is recorded in the Bible itself, cannot be verified entirely based on the recorded history of other nations that lived before, during and after the events recorded in the Bible had ever existed at all.

You would think someone would have recorded something?

As sceptic as it may seem. It is very hard to judge back in time, when their knowledge could not be verified as in todays' modern world of scientific advanced evidence.

Answer 3

I think God's original name was El, but he got fused with Yahweh (YHWH, if you like) at a latter date. Yahweh was a storm god I believe.

Answer 4

God is a concept, not an individual. Individuals can be pointed to or touched (except imaginary individuals, in fiction). God cannot, by definition. We only know the meaning of the word God by reference to a description of the concept (as "the creator of everything", "absolutely good" etc...) and not by pointing to it, as in the case of individuals. Maybe that is why they use YHWH...

Answer 5

The title 'God' refers to deity (as opposed to humanity) and there are many gods, which are all false apart from the one true God, the creator of heaven and earth. He has more than one personal name! Just read the Hebrew scriptures to find out just how many names he has! El Shaddi ('el' = God), El Elyon, Jehovah [=YHWH] Jireh, Jehovah Rophi, Jehovah Makkeh, Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Tsebaioth, Jehovah Shalom, Jehovah Tsidkenu, Jehovah Shammah, Jehovah Rohi, Immanuel.

Then there is the immense name, I AM, used by God to Moses at the burning bush, and also by Jesus to the Jews of his day. No words, no language, can encapsulate the enormity of who God is. He is beyond our ken, but those various names combine to give us some idea of just who it is who commands our worship and obedience.

Answer 6

Yes, the Christian ideology stemmed from Plotinus, Plato, etc, in their estimation that there is one True Good in reality. That good was adopted by the christians to proclaim that their God was God of All. The Creator of all Creators. Interesting concept, but one most likely tied into egotism.

The idea that the Self is the singular principle of life was known to the Brahmins for over thousands of years, but rather than a specific deity, they saw it more as the foundation for all of reality.

Answer 7

The god Yahweh was a fertility and volcano god of the people of the Levant. When one clan, the Hebrews started warring with the other peoples in the area, they substituted their god of gods for the gods of the people they conquered, making "demons" of the gods that others believed in. The Hebrews used to be polytheists.

Answer 8

I have been asking the same question since i was in second grade and found out his name was Yahweh (YHWH). I also think that it is odd that they think he is the same as Eloheim, who is who created the earth in the first place in Genisis one, and is a pluralistic deity with both male and female attributes. That is who made man in "their" image.
Yahweh created adam and eve in the garden later. He did this independent of Eloheim.

Yet they hold on to that Yehweh, a tempermental father god, is the same a Eloheim, a multi-facetted multi-deity of creation, are the same.

Answer 9

God is God , no matter what you call him, Yahweh sounds cool so does Zeus.

Answer 10

Different language. Yahweh is the Hebrew name for Him. In English we just say God. Since there is only one God over Heaven and earth, there is no reason to name Him.