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NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN Through the concept of the Trinity, we understand God’s plan of salvation is associated with each of three persons in the Trinity. In the age of the Father, God plays the role of the Father and rules the world with his laws. . In the age of the Son, as the Son he incarnates into the world and reveals the love of the father. In the age of the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit brings in new birth into the Kingdom of God and transformation into sons and daughters and make us partakers in the divinity. Rev 14:6, "Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation and tribe and language and people." God’s name changes with the nation and language. There is nothing wrong in that as long as the attributes which each nation and language understand is the same. The Age of the Father, corresponding to the Old Testament, characterized by obedience of mankind to the Rules of God. The central name here is YHVH and the basis is the Law which was given by YHVH through Moses unto Israel with the order to declare it to all nations. The Age of the Son, the central name of God is Yeshua. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Tbetween the advent of Christ and 1260, represented by the New Testament, when Man became the son of God; The Age of the Holy Spirit, impending, ushered in by an Angel with a sword, when mankind was to come in direct contact with God, reaching the total freedom preached by the Christian message. The Kingdom of the Holy Spirit, a new dispensation of universal love, would proceed from the Gospel of Christ, but transcend the letter of it. According to Joachim, only in this third Age it will be possible to really understand the words of God in its deepest meanings, and not merely literally. In this period, instead of the parousia (second Advent of Christ), a new Epoch of peace and concord would begin; also, a new religious "order" of spiritual men will arise, thus making the present hierarchy of the Church almost unnecessary. We need to distinguish between the "reign of justice" or of "law", in an imperfect society, and the "reign of freedom" in a perfect society. It is important to remember that humanity is striving to comprehend God who is infinite, so we will be limited in our understanding of His complete nature. Our logic will not be able to fully explain God. So, the belief in the Trinity will still be somewhat incomprehensible as John Wesley suggested when he said, “Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the triune God.” 4
NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN In each age we experience God in different modes and hence we call God by those attributes. Joachim's three circles of History From Joachim's Liber Figurarum. MS CCC 255A f.7v, Bodleian Library, Oxford Joachim's tetragrammaton, IEUE. The three interlocking rings represent the Trinity. Held in the Bodleian library, Oxford, MS. CCC 255A f.7v. Source: faculty.virginia.edu. Overlapping periods of Father-Son, Son-Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit- Son Latin form IEVE = YHVH Hebrew form 5
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