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Is there a name that is above the Name that is above every Name?
Your Gnosticism is showing.
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Is there a name that is above the Name that is above every Name?
Is there a name that is above the Name that is above every Name?
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!!
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...
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.
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.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.
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.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.
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.
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
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.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?
I would be dissappointed to be called Steve by people who know me better.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?
Which ever way the tetragrammaton was pronounced one thing is certain: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?
I would be dissappointed to be called Steve by people who know me better.
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.And you would condemn them to eternal agony for it? It is a diversion, a frivolity.
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
In Judea it was "Yah" while in the Northern Kingdom it was "El".
"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.