The fay have begun to clean my many minds. A thought they discovered hidden in a drawer. What's in a name? God certainly likes his names. Has he many minds like me?
El
Elohim
El Shadai
Adonai
YWHW
Translational names:
the LORD
the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY which thinks I do is something like YHWH the Elohim.
Debatable:
Trinity
Jesus
Yehushua
2007-10-23 00:20:20 · 24 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All in the first group were Hebrew.
2007-10-23 00:29:46 · update #1
I'm the fruit yet people spout out venom as they cannot contain the intelligence to read the details.
Perhaps their minds were cleaned a little too much?
2007-10-23 00:31:22 · update #2
A lot of titles/descriptions. And if you notice, in the Bible (especially the Old Test) each book has a different title it leans on more. To me, that suggests it depends on the writers themselves and possibly what area they came from. A really poor example is to look at the US and in each major area (North, South, Midwest, etc) ask each group what they call Coke. Some say Soda, Pop, Coke, etc...
I think those others who can't read the details, well, maybe the fay has used Bleach while cleaning their minds out? Either that, or they are dancing in their minds and they don't know it. ;-)
2007-10-23 00:41:55 · answer #1 · answered by River 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God does not have many names. What you have listed are titles. To illustrate: a man may be: President, attorney, father, husband, soccer coach, and so on. But his name is listed as Thomas.
So it is with God. He is Almighty, Judge, Creator, King, Heavenly Father, Lord, God and so on. But he has only one name which he has listed as the memorial of him. It is Exodus where he says this is his name and the memorial of him. The letters are, as you mentioned, YHWH. Though the actual pronunciation is now quite lost, many think the closest is Yahweh in Hebrew. The English translation is Jehovah.
The Divine Name, first appearing at Genesis 2:4, is a verb, the causative form, the imperfect state of the Hebrew verb hawah (to become). It thus means He Causes To Become. The very fact that this name appears almost 7,000 times in the Hebrew Scriptures - more than any title or combination thereof - attests to its importance.
Hannah J Paul
2007-10-23 00:31:43 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God has a lot og jobs to do, and each of these names represents a different side of God.
El: The jewish name for God
Elohim, God the Creator
El Shadai: God Almighty
Adonai: The Divine God
YWHW: Many modern writers, particularly in mythology and anthropology, use 'Yahweh' specifically, rather than 'God', to describe the biblical god as a way of trying to display Christian and Jewish concepts as being on an even plane with concepts and deities from other religions. This does not necessarily represent a majority view, but the practice has grown in recent years.
Lord: the governor of our lives
Trinity: expresses the three-in one...God, Jesus, Holy Spirit
2007-10-23 00:43:43 · answer #3 · answered by o7mistique 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some cases what you're talking about are really the same name but in different languages (for example, Adonai is Hebrew for "Lord".) In other cases, what you're talking about are really different ways to *refer* to god... (i.e. "god" vs "lord"... god is often addressed as lord, in recognition of his supposed great power.)
Another aspect that comes into play here is that in Judaism, one isn't supposed to ever say or write any of the names of god... So orthodox Jews will sometimes use the letters of the Hebrew alphabet that come *after* the actual letters for the name in order to indicate who they're talking about... This results in the name which is sometimes phoenetically translated as Yahweh, sometimes as Jehovah, sometimes as YWHW... etc...
Jesus and Yehushua are likewise two different pronounciations of the same name (the latter being the correct pronounciation for Hebrew speakers.) The Trinity of course refers to a different and more complex concept altogether.
2007-10-23 00:28:32 · answer #4 · answered by Katherine H 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why would people from different cultures that speak different languages all use the English word to describe Deity?
Allah ( Ilah ) is the name for God in Aramaic the language that Jesus spoke.
Jesus never prayed to God or even referred to God using any word but Allah.
People who say that Allah is a false God do not know what they are talking about, and they are most certainly not following the true teachings of Jesus.
Love and blessings Don
2007-10-23 00:29:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most educated and uneducated people arround the world realize that there is a GOD or creator. Some religions try to explain him by giving him a name. My God has answered the question the best I think, by saying "I AM". I am a christian and my GOD is the one who said that. My GOD is the same by that definition to all mankind. Being a Christian I also believe that CHRIST was sent to the world for the redemption of all mandkind.
2007-10-23 00:40:07 · answer #6 · answered by WAYNE W 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Israelites were not permitted to speak of write the Creator:s true name The people gave him name of expressions Jer:23:27 The Creator tell the people their father had forgotten his name for the name of Baal. Which is how the term lord and god came about. Nobody knows the Creator s true name. It was forgotten long before Christ. .
2016-11-19 21:11:32 · answer #7 · answered by beatrice 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
his name was lost, the names that people give him are all man made except for yhwh and that is not a name.
2007-10-23 00:35:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes god has many names because the whole mankind is spread all over the world named the single soul as they know just like calling a same thing in different names in different languages.but it is so bad to fight to know who is the best.coz he is a single god
2007-10-23 00:27:37 · answer #9 · answered by pushpa v 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Two words: cultural language
No matter what you call the divine, it is still the divine. Many names, many characteristics, but just one source, which would be the feeling of something more powerful than ourselves.
2007-10-23 00:23:37 · answer #10 · answered by iColorz 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋