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Imagine that you have been limited to using just a single word or phrase to describe something of significance. How would you describe the earth? How would you describe your city? How would you describe your life experience? This limitation would make your description greatly inadequate. By using multiple words, images, and metaphors descriptions can become more encompassing, full, and robust. As the sun has a single source but has many rays, so is the singular nature of God known through His many attributes. Thus, I would like to look at names of God given in Scripture, which testify of His nature. By looking at the names of God, my hope is that we all will be shown new and exciting ways to know and experience God.
scripture
Exodus 3:13-15
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you’.” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation”.
En Espanol, Éxodo 3:13-15
thought
The primary name of God is YHVH, which is the personal name of God. YHVH appears in the Hebrew Bible over 6,800 times. The Hebrew verb used here means “I will”. The Hebrew rendering of this name is “I will be what I will be”. This name tells that “YHVH is the Source of all being and has being inherent in Himself”.
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