THE NAMES OF GOD

NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN
This then presents a process theology. Though God is the omnipotent source, it causes and then
process the product to His ultimate purpose within Him. It thus permits free will within the creation
which God in his process will redeem and perfect and also in case it creates chaos within the creation,
He will cause it to be redeemed. What is this process and how this will be accomplished is not a
question. He can and He will. He also provides order from chaos allowing for an evolution – but
guided and channeled by the potency within the Person of Godhead. He is the cause and He brings
it to pass and from that we can understand partially who God is. In this sense God is saying to
Moses that He can be understood by man only through the history in the way He acts. Man has
actually no other means of knowing God in his essence.
Here is how the various Bible translaters translate Exodus 3:14 word.
I AM who I AM -- New American Standard
I am what I am -- The Living Bible
Ahiah Asher High -- Peshitta / Lamsa
am who I am -- NIV
I am who am -- Catholic Douay Version
I am who I am -- Today's English Version
I AM; that is who I am -- New English Bible
I am he who is -- New Jerusalem Bible
I am who I am -- Revised Standard Bible
Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh -- Holy Name Bible
I will be what I will to be -- footnote (Holy Name Bible)
I am the Being -- Septuagint
I will become whatsoever I please -- Rotherham
I will be what I will be -- William Tyndale
I AM THAT I AM -- 1599 Geneva Bible
I AM WHO I AM -- New King James Version
I AM THAT I AM -- King James Version
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