Is GOD has a named before?
By noypi07
@noypi07 (109)
United States
5 responses
@arseniajoaquin (1732)
• Philippines
8 Feb 07
In the Old Testament, God gave His name to Mouses. But because of the great abuse of the Israelites in calling upon His name, it was made forbidden to pronounce the name of God. In the translations, it was made YHWH. I am a translator of the Word of God from Greek to English and I have already published GENESIS & EXODUS (Greek to Engish) from the Septuagint or LXX (Greek Old Testament) but I only found out the following:
13And Mouses said to God:
“Behold I myself will go to the sons of Israel and say to them: ‘The God of the fathers of you has sent me to you,’ they will ask me: ‘What is the name to Him?’ What shall I say to them?
14And God said to Mouses:
“I Myself am the One who is.”
And He said:
“Thus thou will say to the sons of Israel, ‘The One who is has sent me to you.’” (Exodus 3:13-14)
The tetragramaton or the YHWH was translated "Lord" in many of the existing versions of the Holy Bible circulating around the world.
@luzamper (1357)
• Philippines
9 Feb 07
There are many titles or description but such a name as we all have, there's none now. But accordingly, in the Old Testament, the Israelites called Him by His name which was later forbidden as they bring blasphemy to His name until His name was no longer heard and even if they know the spelling in their language, they no longer knew how to pronounce it that they better not call Him by His name. Anyway, God wants us to call Him "Father" and so in our prayers, we address God as our Father.
@erminiasanjose (1588)
• Philippines
9 Feb 07
Accordingly, the name is YHWH and some inserted some vowels to make it Yahweh. But I don't think this is how it is pronounced.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
8 Feb 07
Just as we have more than one name (Mother,Wife, Sister, Cousin, Daughter, Grandmother.)God has many names that reveal who he is. He is called wonderful, Creater, Father, Ancient of Days, Abba Father. Daddy Father, The Holy One, Mercyful, The great I AM, God is called all these and more in the bible as will as Jehova and YeWah. These are not all of them.
@kriz10 (47)
• Canada
8 Feb 07
Even in the Bible, God has many names though there is only one God. Muslims call God "Allah", but the word "Allah" simply means God and Christian Arabs also call him Allah.
It's not so important to know the name of God as it is to know God. I recommend that you get a Bible and read the gospel of John -- it is God's love letter to the world.
@fectoab (72)
• Canada
8 Feb 07
Knowing God's name is important. How can you get close to God if you don't even know his name.
Do you have any nameless friends, whom you call girl or guy? How could you say you have a best friend when you don't even know his or her name. God is but a tittle like guy or girl. There are many, many gods. All the other gods have names, why doesn't the only True God have one. Doesn't he deserve one more than any other??
God's name has been lost in time for some because the Jews found it to be too sacred to pronounce his name. This was not something God wanted, rather this is what some men decided and this had a great impact on the great mystery of God's name. In fact, it not a mystery at all. If you make research, the God of the Bible, is calle Yaveh or the english translation Jehovah. Some people cringe at pronouncing it; I don't know why because they don't have any problem pronouncing his sons name: Jesus.
Anyway, that's the research I've done and that's the info I've found.
@Silver35 (10)
• United States
30 Jun 07
Well, to tell the absolute truth, it may be that no one on Earth knows the true name of God, however, after having done some research, I've discovered that many now refer to him as Yahweh. I'll explain, in ancient scripts, the reference to God was in Greek letters, which translate to YHWH in English, since there were no vowels, we threw some in like Americans seem to love to do... and it became Yahweh. Jehovah's Witnesses translated the YHWY to "Jehovah" So either is probably still incorrect, but close as far as estimates go...
