There's never absolute certainty since one is trying to work backwards to derivations that happened way back ...
YHWH is most likely "I am / I was / I will be". (It's tense-less)
Joshua/Jesus most likely "YHWH saves".
(Emmanuel is God with us)
Hi,
If I can now verify your lack of certainty answer, then I will take great comfort in this. It is how a person acts, therefore feels, but feels with content to me that matters. I rename some people continuously and can't remember the names of others, as their names do not fit them, to me. I also remember things about people, descriptively, rather than their names. And since people are so interesting to me, sometimes if they need me to remember their names, then some interesting fact is removed to do that.
Typically, no one cares when I tell them of how I know them, they no longer care if I remember their name or not, especially I think when I refer to them as a feature of their core identity.
It is odd. It is the way of me.
A characteristic name of God The Father to me, is a relationship name. It is the same with Jesus, to me, and with The Holy Spirit to me. However, that relationship name to me, is my personal relationship with Him, at the time.
Historically, He was just Father, and rather mysterious. Jesus was Jesus, also historically to me. The Holy Spirit was very hard for me to understand, historically.
Now, all my names for Them are persoanal, and descriptive. Mary, is that to me, and if I have not been deceived, so are the few angels that I have met this year, and the few Saints, but one also of many years ago. Another Saint to me is felt, relationally, has been there always, but I did not know it at first.
God The Father, to others, would be I Am, who you shall experience Me as.
Jesus, to others would be Savior to most, but the One Who Loved His Father to me. To some, He is their spouse, historically. He is also to me, what my relationship is to Him now.
The Holy Spirit, I see as love, times love, personality wise. He is normally not felt as He sets aside, His Personality, to work, using love to do that. He to me would be a word that signifies love, times love, as that is how I perceive His actions.
So, I Am who I shall prove to be, also fits for me, God The Father in action.
Most people, even Jesus seems to let us call God The Father by relationship names such as Our Father.
I guess if a specific name that is unchangeable, is not how God wants to be referred to as, I rather like that, but if He has a Specific name, this too I would like to know. It does seem rather respectful. Only, I don't make the rules.
LOVE,
...Mary., .... .