Hello to all,
I have been doing alot of research on the Scriptures, and would like to find out what your opinion on the matter might be.
After researching the Scriptures, I have notice that our creator states many time about and emphasizing on His NAME. Now what is His NAME? I know many call Him god or lord, but these are titles and not a name. While doing my research I found that our creator wrote His NAME on the Ten Commandments as Yod-Hey-Waw-Hey "YHWH" which means I AM WHO I AM, which in Hebrew trasliteration says YaHuWaH "Yah-Hoo-WaH". As it says in Exodus 3:15 This is my NAME forever and this is My memorial-name to all generations. This brought up the question, why don't we call him by his name? Through out Scriptures He is emphasizing his NAME, he who call on my NAME, He shall come in my NAME, you shall be persucuted for my NAME...ect. Many People tell me that he has multiple names, which takes me back to Exdodus 3:15, and that it does not matter what you call him, yet if it didn't why would He emphasize on it so much.
A close christian friend of mine has been telling me that I shouldn't be so worried about searching for the correct terminology and more concerned with my heart attitude and personal relationship with the Lord. I have stopped calling God by all other names except for YHWH and have emphatically insisted that this is what God wants from me. My friend has pointed out that I am spending more time searching out do's and don'ts and that I am being led away from grace and into law abiding principles. I disagree with them and was just wondering what other christians thought about this matter and if you could point me to scripture as it relates to your views. And I would like to know if anyone has any personal experience in this matter in your journey of faith. I am a new believer and just want to be on the right path and not be misled if that's what's happening?
I have been doing alot of research on the Scriptures, and would like to find out what your opinion on the matter might be.
After researching the Scriptures, I have notice that our creator states many time about and emphasizing on His NAME. Now what is His NAME? I know many call Him god or lord, but these are titles and not a name. While doing my research I found that our creator wrote His NAME on the Ten Commandments as Yod-Hey-Waw-Hey "YHWH" which means I AM WHO I AM, which in Hebrew trasliteration says YaHuWaH "Yah-Hoo-WaH". As it says in Exodus 3:15 This is my NAME forever and this is My memorial-name to all generations. This brought up the question, why don't we call him by his name? Through out Scriptures He is emphasizing his NAME, he who call on my NAME, He shall come in my NAME, you shall be persucuted for my NAME...ect. Many People tell me that he has multiple names, which takes me back to Exdodus 3:15, and that it does not matter what you call him, yet if it didn't why would He emphasize on it so much.
A close christian friend of mine has been telling me that I shouldn't be so worried about searching for the correct terminology and more concerned with my heart attitude and personal relationship with the Lord. I have stopped calling God by all other names except for YHWH and have emphatically insisted that this is what God wants from me. My friend has pointed out that I am spending more time searching out do's and don'ts and that I am being led away from grace and into law abiding principles. I disagree with them and was just wondering what other christians thought about this matter and if you could point me to scripture as it relates to your views. And I would like to know if anyone has any personal experience in this matter in your journey of faith. I am a new believer and just want to be on the right path and not be misled if that's what's happening?