He wants us to get to know him, hence the bible, and the best way to get to know someone is by knowing their name,i mean its the very first thing you learn about them.
You don't go around saying oi you, so why is it so hard to believe that yes actually God does have a name, and surprise surprise its there in the bible in the book of PSALM chapter 83 and verse 18 it says "That people may know that you whose name is Jehovah. You alone are the Most High over all the earth, its in all bibles throughout the world take a look in yours
2007-10-03 12:02:40 · 26 answers · asked by BUTTERFLY 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pilgrim we put J into it so that it makes sense in our language? and yes it should matter, we are speaking of the creator of the universe, should we not address him by his name if he has given it to us, then surely he wants us to use it, and God is what he is, your human, so do you want to be address oi human
2007-10-03 12:16:17 · update #1
Yes, his name is "Your imagination".... Actually, to be honest, it was someone else's imagination and you just piggy backed off it... but it's all the same in the long run.
2007-10-03 12:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by I, Sapient 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
God has millions of names eg. Yahweh, God, Goddess, Jehovah, YHVH, I am that I am, Yod Heh Vah Heh, Tetragrammaton, Zeus, Odin, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Thoth, Thor, The Ancient of Days, Allah, Krishna, Brahma, Rama, Vishnu, Shiva, Divine Eternal Father, Eternally Creative Intelligence, Danu....
It's the same God with different names for its different expressions, manifestations and aspects throughout different times and places. God didn't stop speaking to us thousands of years ago when the Bible was finished being written, God speaks to us everyday. We can learn how to listen by praying, meditating and reading the signs of the open book of nature. Jehovah is a translation, some consider Jehovah a demi-god. Some say Brahma was an incarnation of Krishna and some say Krishna was an incarnation of Brahma. They are all manifestations of the same being - the Creator of the universe.
2007-10-04 13:19:52 · answer #2 · answered by Holistic Mystic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is in Hinduism.
God is a one being, yet we understand Him in three perfections: Absolute Reality, Pure Consciousness and Primal Soul. As Absolute Reality, Siva is unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent, the Self God, timeless, formless and spaceless. As Pure Consciousness, God is the manifest primal substance, pure love and light flowing through all form, existing everywhere in time and space as infinite intelligence and power.
God is all and in all, one without a second, the Supreme Being and only Absolute Reality. He is Pati, our Lord, immanent and transcendent. To create, preserve, destroy, conceal and reveal are His five powers.
The Vedas explain, "Self-resplendent, formless, unoriginated and pure, that all-pervading being is both within and without. He transcends even the transcendent, unmanifest, causal state of the universe."
Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, has no beginning--it precedes recorded history. It has no human founder. It is a mystical religion, leading the devotee to personally experience the Truth within, finally reaching the pinnacle of consciousness where man and God are one.
For more info,please visit http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/wih/
2007-10-03 23:14:10 · answer #3 · answered by Adi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've had some stupid and facetious replies. God's Name in Hebrew is mainly Yahweh but there are other 'titles'. Jehovah doesn't make sense because there is no letter J in the Hebrew alphabet. God (YHWH) has one Name, but several titles, including Elohim and Eloah ... One day very soon His Name and Titles will be spoken throughout all the earth... Hasten that day ...
2007-10-03 12:16:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lord is a call merely as Queen is a call. Jehovah is God's call merely as Elizabeth is the Queens call. interior the previous King James bible it tells you there 1000's of circumstances that God's call is Jehovah. It grew to become into removed from the bible so as that persons could think of Jesus grew to become into God. He grew to become into the son of Jehovah God.
2016-11-07 04:29:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite right, God's name being left out of translations of the Bible is an atrocity, and is the cause of superstition that it has been left out, thinking it is not proper to utter God's name. If that is so why did he give it us ?
2007-10-03 20:57:32 · answer #6 · answered by Kurt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, on a logical level, he shouldn't have a name. Ideally, he would just be. I believe he exemplifies this best when he describes himself to Moses as "I am who I am" or something like that. Any other label would be a limitation.
However, in the bible, god goes by several different names, so there goes the logical argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God
2007-10-03 12:08:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
YES, but it has been lost. Jehovah was coined by a catholic monk in Spain in the 12th century by Raymundus Martini, it didn't find it's way into the bible until the 15th century. If you even ask a Jehovah's Witness they will tell you that name is in error.
2007-10-03 12:08:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
YHWH is His name, but it is unpronounceable.
He has many other names, such as:
Almighty God
Good Shepherd
Prince of Peace
Wonderful Counselor
And I'm sure He answers to any and all of them!
God bless you!
2007-10-03 12:14:00 · answer #9 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His name cannot be spoken or said. It is Holy and good. Neither will we see an image of Him and nor should we-He is God.
2007-10-03 12:16:42 · answer #10 · answered by knight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How disappointed are you going to be on judgement day if you hear it's something like, Shug. (Scottish for Hugh)
2007-10-03 12:12:16 · answer #11 · answered by john m 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋