What is the name of the God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob and God of Moses?

Carl Emerson said:

Is there a name that is above the Name that is above every Name?

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Your Gnosticism is showing.

Carl Emerson said:

Is there a name that is above the Name that is above every Name?

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Idle and fruitless speculation that does not edify.

God has many names, Each name of God reflects a certain quality/characteristic that he possesses. One Example is Elohim which means "God" and refers to his power and might. Below is a link that has 10 names of God with their meanings, however, it is not a complete list.
10 Powerful Names of God (and What They Mean for Us Today)

An example in my personal life is knowing that God is Jehova (Yahweh) Jireh (Yireh) which means God, my provider. We are currently in the adoption process and it basically costs about $35,000 to bring home one child. Now I am walking in what God has called me to do and when I accepted His call to adopt, I told Him that I was going to trust him to provide the money without me having to fund raise. Fast forward to now, we now are adopting 2 children, about $42,000 and God has sent all but $2000 that we already had set aside to start the process. So in my life, God truly is Jehova Jireh!!

wesf said:

God has many names, Each name of God reflects a certain quality/characteristic that he possesses. One Example is Elohim which means "God" and refers to his power and might. Below is a link that has 10 names of God with their meanings, however, it is not a complete list.
10 Powerful Names of God (and What They Mean for Us Today)

An example in my personal life is knowing that God is Jehova (Yahweh) Jireh (Yireh) which means God, my provider. We are currently in the adoption process and it basically costs about $35,000 to bring home one child. Now I am walking in what God has called me to do and when I accepted His call to adopt, I told Him that I was going to trust him to provide the money without me having to fund raise. Fast forward to now, we now are adopting 2 children, about $42,000 and God has sent all but $2000 that we already had set aside to start the process. So in my life, God truly is Jehova Jireh!!

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Sounds occult to me, like something based on kaballah.

OK let me be plain...

According to John 17 Jesus was given the father's Name.

His Name, the Name of Jesus is the Name above every Name.

This renders he discussion over YHWH less significant.

The argument that Jesus was given the authority but not the Name is not sustainable.

I am open hearted - convince me I'm wrong...

Carl Emerson said:

OK let me be plain...

According to John 17 Jesus was given the father's Name.

His Name, the Name of Jesus is the Name above every Name.

This renders he discussion over YHWH less significant.

The argument that Jesus was given the authority but not the Name is not sustainable.

I am open hearted - convince me I'm wrong...

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And it's all irrelevant to salvation. Where in Scripture does it state that we must know this "Name" to be saved? As I stated: Idle and fruitless speculation that does not edify. And nowhere in John 17 does it say that there is some kind of magical "name" mentioned nowhere else. "I have given them your name" could refer to any name whereby the Father was already known. Occult dabbling, idle, fruitless, not edifying.

BryanJohnMaloney said:

And it's all irrelevant to salvation. Where in Scripture does it state that we must know this "Name" to be saved? As I stated: Idle and fruitless speculation that does not edify. And nowhere in John 17 does it say that there is some kind of magical "name" mentioned nowhere else. "I have given them your name" could refer to any name whereby the Father was already known. Occult dabbling, idle, fruitless, not edifying.

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Sorry to upset you, but I entirely disagree.

It is plain and simple.

The Father gave Jesus His Name - the Name of Jesus. (Jn 17:11) That was the Father's name.

This is the Name above every Name (Eph 1:21) (Phil 2:9)

What could be more simple?

It does help to understand that there is no name greater than the Name of Jesus.

BryanJohnMaloney said:

The idea that Jesus's name is "really" anything among the various languages is silly. That's like saying my father's name is "really" Yochanan. The New Testament explicitly recognized that different languages could render the same name differently. The most striking is "Tabitha", who is also called "Dorcas"--both names are considered equivalent.

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So why choose a name that means something else? Why remove the meaning? Jesus (in the mind of a Hellenist) evokes a pagan healing deity. Yehoshua, or Joshua, means YHWH saves.

BryanJohnMaloney said:

And it's all irrelevant to salvation. Where in Scripture does it state that we must know this "Name" to be saved? As I stated: Idle and fruitless speculation that does not edify. And nowhere in John 17 does it say that there is some kind of magical "name" mentioned nowhere else. "I have given them your name" could refer to any name whereby the Father was already known. Occult dabbling, idle, fruitless, not edifying.

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Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name, that at the Name of יהושע every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and every tongue should confess that יהושע Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.
Pilipiyim (Philippians) 2:9‭-‬11 The Scriptures

Anguspure said:

So why choose a name that means something else? Why remove the meaning? Jesus (in the mind of a Hellenist) evokes a pagan healing deity. Yehoshua, or Joshua, means YHWH saves.

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Tell Paul that HE was wrong to write in Greek, then. Paul wrote in Greek. He certianly used the Greek form of the name. I am familiar with the silly "Iaso" claim. It was first claimed by the occultist Blavatsky, who is the only author who seems to make this connection- and reading her writings on the subject make her bias and forced interpretation quite clear. That Iaso and related names were common in Greek is not up for debate, as this was this case; however, because two names sound alike does not mean that one is derived from the other, or even etymologically related (and there are several English names that can attest to this fact).
However, it is quite clear to anyone who is not attempting to force an interpretation of etymologies that the name Iesous is a transliteration; Blavatsky and other esoteric writers support the "Iaso" connection because of their support of gnosticism/theosophy-related theories. Blavatsky's interpretation seems to erode once one realizes that Iesous had been the transliteration of the Yeshu root even before Christ- the Septuagint translation transliterates this name form as such.
I strongly doubt that the Jewish translators of the Septuagint had the interest of transliterating a common Hebrew name in a form influenced by a Greek goddess- it's simply how the name transliterates, period. Note Thayer and Smith's entry in the New Testament Greek Lexicon (excerpted here). Additionally, the Online Etymology Dictionary reinforces, again, that the form "Iesous" is a transliteration of the Hebrew/Aramaic forms.

Anguspure said:

Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name, that at the Name of יהושע every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and every tongue should confess that יהושע Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.
Pilipiyim (Philippians) 2:9‭-‬11 The Scriptures

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Philippians was written in Greek, to an audience that did not read Hebrew. Thus, use of Hebrew letters is actually deviating from Scripture.

So much superstition, so much occultism. Is God some kind of Magus who will quiz us all, Egyptian Book of the Dead style, on the "names" of various occult figures, and those who can't recite them will be cast into the outer darkness and fed to the Crocodile?

Roy Ivan Ramos said:

Is it Jehovah or Yahweh(Revealed to Moses in the burning bush) Why is the name of God replaced with LORD? Is the name of God Jesus Christ?

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Jehovah is an anglicized version of YHWH, just as Jesus is an anglicized version of Yeshua. There's nothing wrong with using either version, imo.

Most bibles convert YHWH to LORD because it has been a longstanding Hebrew tradition to do so. I think we're losing something by converting it, personally.

Your last question can get pretty deep. I don't feel well-qualified enough to pursue it, sorry.

BryanJohnMaloney said:

So much superstition, so much occultism. Is God some kind of Magus who will quiz us all, Egyptian Book of the Dead style, on the "names" of various occult figures, and those who can't recite them will be cast into the outer darkness and fed to the Crocodile?

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I would be dissappointed to be called Steve by people who know me better.

Roy Ivan Ramos said:

Is it Jehovah or Yahweh(Revealed to Moses in the burning bush) Why is the name of God replaced with LORD? Is the name of God Jesus Christ?

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Which ever way the tetragrammaton was pronounced one thing is certain:
It was a two syllable word. Jehovah is three syllables so you can cross that one off your list with 100% certainty

Anguspure said:

I would be dissappointed to be called Steve by people who know me better.

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And you would condemn them to eternal agony for it? It is a diversion, a frivolity.

BryanJohnMaloney said:

And you would condemn them to eternal agony for it? It is a diversion, a frivolity.

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I don't think I have ever implied such a thing. Nevertheless there is a great deal more to our relationship with Yeshua than avoiding the penalty for sin.

buzuxi02 said:

Which ever way the tetragrammaton was pronounced one thing is certain:
It was a two syllable word. Jehovah is three syllables so you can cross that one off your list with 100% certainty

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Why do you say that? YeHoVaH...YHVH...it actually stems from 3 Hebrew words, not 2

JackRT said:

In Judea it was "Yah" while in the Northern Kingdom it was "El".

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-YaH is a suffix while Yeho- is a prefix.

BryanJohnMaloney said:

"Jehovah" and "Yahweh" are the exact same name, merely different routes of transmission.

So, in Scripture, you had something that could be rendered in English "IHVH", "JHVH", "YHWH", "IHUH", etc., and it was all the same at the time. There is another name that refers to God: Adonai. Some bright boys, entirely on their own, picked one of the tetragrammatons (that's the fancy-pants name for the four-letter sequences) and substituted in the vowels from Adonai, getting Jahovah (why they dropped the final "i", I have no clue). Other scholars decided, instead, that the Hebrew name was a play on the phrase "I am", so they used the Hebrew vowels from that phrase and it became "Yahweh". Same name, different roads.

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no it isn't. there is no "Yahweh" in Judaism. You are just repeating a fallacy. YeHo is a Hebrew name prefix from YeHoVaH.