THE NAMES OF GOD
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<strong>NAMES</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>GOD</strong> IN <strong>THE</strong> BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PR<strong>OF</strong>. M. M. NINAN<br />
H V H Y<br />
(Read Right to Left)<br />
Ancient Semitic Hebrew 1400 BC<br />
The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (1100 BC to CE 300),<br />
Aramaic (10th Century BC to 0)<br />
and modern Hebrew scripts.<br />
God is not the name of God<br />
Your name is not man, you have a personal name.<br />
So also God has a name because He is a person.<br />
If you want to have a personal relation with God, you should know his name.<br />
You cannot know it unless God Himself reveals it to you.<br />
Exodus 6.2–3:<br />
I revealed myself to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El Shaddâi, but was not known to them by my<br />
name YhVh.Vn the P strand Yahweh claims in Exodus 6.2–3:<br />
Abraham called on the name of the Lord (Gen. 12:8; 13:4).<br />
The Lord proclaimed His own name before Moses (Ex. 33:19; 34:5).<br />
Israel was warned against profaning the name of the Lord (Lev. 13:21; 22:2, 32).<br />
The name of the Lord was not to be taken in vain (Ex. 20:7; Deut. 5:11).<br />
The priests of Israel were to minister in the name of the Lord (Deut. 18:5; 21:5).<br />
The name of God is called “wonderful” in Judges 13:18.<br />
To call on the name of the Lord was to worship Him as God (Gen. 21:33; 26:25).<br />
In the Pentateuch, Yahweh denotes that aspect of God's character that is personal rather than<br />
transcendent. It occurs in contexts in which the covenantal and redemptive aspects of God<br />
predominate. Moshe David Cassuto, (1883–1951 rabbi and Biblical scholar born in Florence, Italy)<br />
says:<br />
"The name YHWH is employed when God is presented to us in His personal character and in direct<br />
relationship to people or nature; and 'Elohim, when the Deity is alluded to as a Transcendental Being<br />
who exists completely outside and above the physical universe" (The Documentary Hypothesis, p.<br />
31).<br />
YHVH is the manifested cosmic principle, the Creation itself.<br />
חוה – Hava יה – Yah<br />
The first two letters constitute Yah – יה denote the masculine energy from the heavens. The last two<br />
letters are taken from the name of the first woman, Eve – Hava – .חוה This reflects the image of God<br />
that is reflected in Man. Literally man’s divine soul experiences God during union with the female.<br />
God’s image is complete in Man only with the union of Man and Woman.<br />
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