Found my real name

[YCGP]

I found my real name recently in prayer.

Does anyone have the spiritual knowledge that one's real name is one's true nature?

What are the implications of this?

Tell us if you found your real name/nature.

 

[SamanthaAnastasia]

I found my real name recently in prayer.

Does anyone have the spiritual knowledge that one's real name is one's true nature?

What are the implications of this?

Tell us if you found your real name/nature.

What do you mean by your real name?

 

[ArmyMatt]

I found my real name recently in prayer.

Does anyone have the spiritual knowledge that one's real name is one's true nature?

What are the implications of this?

Tell us if you found your real name/nature.

if you discovered something in prayer, step one is to assume you were deluded, put it out of your mind, and go about your day. if it persists, tell your priest.

 

[YCGP]

What do you mean by your real name?

People sometimes find their "spiritual" name, or one they feel is "real" as opposed to their given name.

 

[YCGP]

if you discovered something in prayer, step one is to assume you were deluded, put it out of your mind, and go about your day. if it persists, tell your priest.

Why is this?

 

[ArmyMatt]

Why is this?

because the demons and our own fallenness can mess with us.

 

[YCGP]

because the demons and our own fallenness can mess with us.

Change your name, change your destiny.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Change your name, change your destiny.

that’s not Orthodox.

 

[YCGP]

that’s not Orthodox.

Is it sinful to change your name?

If Jesus is Logos of God then isn't one's name important for one's nature/life?

All of the Biblical names had meaning. What would have happened if Jesus had a different name?

If his name was Juniper then he'd represent "repelling the enemy," instead of "God is help."

 

[Apple Sky]

Is it sinful to change your name?

Not at all, God changed Abraham's & Jacob's name and Jesus changed Peter's name & Paul's. So there must be something more powerful in a name.

 

[rusmeister]

Not at all, God changed Abraham's & Jacob's name and Jesus changed Peter's name & Paul's. So there must be something more powerful in a name.

That’s not the issue, and this is a congregational forum, not a general forum. Please respect the rules of this sub-forum. A man is experiencing an issue that needs pastoral counseling by an Orthodox priest.

 

[rusmeister]

I found my real name recently in prayer.

Does anyone have the spiritual knowledge that one's real name is one's true nature?

What are the implications of this?

Tell us if you found your real name/nature.

Listen to Fr Matt and talk to your own priest. Just because you experience such things doesn’t make them good, right, or true. Demons and prelest are real dangers. Do you know what prelest is?

 

[Apple Sky]

That’s not the issue, and this is a congregational forum, not a general forum. Please respect the rules of this sub-forum. A man is experiencing an issue that needs pastoral counseling by an Orthodox priest.

Sorry, I didn't realize, my appologies.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Is it sinful to change your name?

If Jesus is Logos of God then isn't one's name important for one's nature/life?

All of the Biblical names had meaning. What would have happened if Jesus had a different name?

If his name was Juniper then he'd represent "repelling the enemy," instead of "God is help."

we don’t change our name because of some lone spiritual insight we believe we were given by praying.

 

[rusmeister]

Sorry, I didn't realize, my appologies.

No problem, I might have come across as sounding harsh. You are very welcome to post in fellowship, and to ask questions in the main subforum, just not teach or contradict Orthodox teaching. You MAY challenge things you disagree with in our St Justin’s subforum (near the top of our page).
Welcome to TAW!

 

[RileyG]

Change your name, change your destiny.

What?

 

[YCGP]

If you change your name, you will change your destiny.

 

[ArmyMatt]

this notion really is not Orthodox

 

[The Liturgist]

If you change your name, you will change your destiny.

That’s nominative determinism and it is a dangerous superstition.

Consider we have saints in the Orthodox church like St. Dionysius the Aereopagite, who happened to have been named by their Pagan parents after Pagan deities, which according to Psalm 95 v. 5 LXX, are demons.

If nominative determinism were true, such persons couldn’t possibly be saints, yet here we are, and instead of remembering the various insignificant Greek, Roman, Coptic, Slavic, Celtic, Germanic and Mesopotamian divinities our saints were named after before they converted, for the most part the original deities have been entirely forgotten by the general public, and are no longer worshipped, while our saints, who have appropriated those names through faith in Christ our True God are venerated, while leading us in the sole adoration and worship of God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, ever one God, who we worship and adore exclusively, even through the veneration of the saints glorified in Christ.