What are the different names of God and what do they mean? The name of God

The name of God in the Bible. Is Jehovah's Witnesses are right about Tetragrammaton?

Question from Olga
Jehovah's Witnesses talk a lot about the name of God and the Holy Scriptures prove its importance. Are they right? Help me to understand

Let's deal with together. At the same time, we will rely only on the facts, on the text of the original Bible, and not to the interpretation of it by representatives of different denominations.

So, from my communication with the representative of Jehovah's Witnesses, I understood the following: Witnesses believe that the name of God "Jehovah" has great importance for people. Knowing this name, believers are saved, this name is afraid of Satan and his demons, so the name of God Jehovah needs to be paid attention! Jehovah's Witnesses refer to Jesus that he taught: "Yes, your name will hurt," the sanctification of this name is not only in prayers, but also by their affairs.

Indeed, the Bible uses the name of God Tetragrammaton (Jehovah) and repeatedly refers to sanctifying, glorifying the name of God. Besides, Holy Bible It announces that the name of God must be preached among the peoples:

"For that very much I put you to show my power over to you and that it was preached my name across the earth» (Rome. 9:17, see also Ex. 9:16).

However, the Bible also contains other names of God. So what is the name of God to sanctify and preach believers?

The names of God, found in the Bible

Especially often, God is called Elohim in the Bible (that translated from Hebrew means El (God) with the end multiple number, Greek Theos). Also, God is referred to as the Lord (derived from Mr., in Hebrew Adonai, Greek Curios)

Now we will list the names of God, found in the Bible:

God at least shows its 5 names, telling that this is his names:

Jesetter: "For you should not worship God other than the Lord; because his name is zeal; He is a zeal(Ex. 34.14).

Savaof (Translated by the military): "Our Redeemer - Lord Savaof name Him» (Is. 47: 4).

Saint: "For so says the high and extomed, ever-living, - Holy name it» (Is. 57:15).

Redeemer: "Only you are our father; ... you, Lord, our father, from century your name: "Redeemer our""(Is. 63:16).

Tetragramaon. - (Jehovah, Yahweh): "Lord Male Brahi, Jehovah (Tetragrammaton) name to him» (Ex. 15: 3).

As can be seen from the text of the Holy Scriptures, God has a single only name. Moreover, simple analysis is enough to see that the names of God are carrying information about him, characterize it: Revisory, power, holy, reappear ...

It is indicative in this key and analyzing another text of the Bible - 33 and 34 chapters of the Book Exodus. In 33 chapter, we read:

"(Moses) said: Show me than your glory. And the Lord said: I Conducttooby. All Slava My I. provider name Jehovah before you ... "(Ex. 33: 18,19).

"And the Lord came up (Tetragrammammaton) in the cloud ... and proclaimed name Jehovah (Tetragrammaton). AND passed Lord (Tetragrammaton) forelying His I. head: Lord (Tetragrammammaton), Lord (Tetragrammaton), God's human-loving and merciful, long-suffer and multi-facing and true, ... Forgiving guilt and crime and sin, but not leaving without punishment ... Moses immediately fell on the ground and bowed. "(Ex. 34: 5-8).

As follows from the text, Moses asked to show him Slava Creator. What the Lord glory immediately connected with the proclamation of him Name. But, after all, it is obvious that the creator here did not open Moses the name Tetramaton, as he did it much earlier that we will analyze in the next section of the article. But God announced the name of Tetragrammaton! Look - this phrase is repeated repeatedly! But if the tetragrammaton is a name, then how can one be the name of another name? The explanation is logical and confirmed by the Bible itself, there is only one thing - the name indicates a character. Therefore, the Lord announced his name, which consists not only of tetragrammaton, but also from other characteristics - human-humid, merciful, long-suffering, multi-facing, true, goodbye, but fair ... it is All Glory God, which he, as promised, spent before Moses!

In general, anyone familiar with the Bible and history knows that the names in ancient times were not just names for their own, and carriers of information about who belonged to. Therefore, practiced name change when changing certain conditions. For example, Jacob (Podoner), was named Israel (winner), Abram (Great for Father) The Lord renamed Abraham (Father of Peoples), Sarah (Princess) in Sarra (Princess of Peoples), Simona (God heard) Christ called Peter (Rock ) ... Every name made sense. For example, Jesus in translation means - the Lord will save.

And the name of God is not an exception to this rule. If with the names of the Zeper, strength, holy, reapperate everything is less clear, what does the name of God Tetragrammaton (Jehovah, Yahweh) mean?

What denotes the name of God Tetragrammammaton (Jehovah, Yahweh, Jehovah)?

For the first time God calls himself the name of Tetragrammaton in Ex. 3 chapter. Look at the question of Moses about the name of God, the Creator told Patriarch ...

"Moses said to Moses: here, I will come to the sons of Israel and I will tell them: God fathers of your messlo me to you. And they will tell me: Like him name? What tell me? " (Ex. 3:13)

God replied to this alone in the original:

"God said Moses: Tell the Sons of Israel Sunny(היה - Echie-Asher Echiye - I am the one who else, in Hebrew "to be", the "Jehovah" translated) messlo» (Ex. 3:14)

But in the following, 15 text isch. Three chapters We meet the famous Tetragrammaton (Tetragrammammaton in Greaterly means a word of 4 letters, i.e. four-buckwie), which believers are pronounced and understood in different ways - Jehovah, Yahweh, is ... We present this verse personally as in the Hebrew original:

"God said again Moses: Tell the Sons of Israel: tetragrammaton. (יהוה), God fathers of your, God Abraham, God Isaac and God James messlo. Name forever, remembering from kind in kind(Ex. 3:15).

Tetragrammaton is written יהוה. And the word is, used in 14 verse היה. Look at them carefully. And now reread 13, 14 and 15 poems. It can be seen that in the 15th text, God clarifies what I said in 14. Most Theologians have no doubt that the names of God mentioned in 14 and 15 verses are very close, almost the same. This is what the name of the day and tetragrammatone can be found in the electronic Jewish encyclopedia, which preserved the tradition of ancestors, that is, the Old Testament Israelis:

"An explanation of the name given in Ex. 3:14 (I am the one who else) is an example folk etymologycharacteristic of the biblical system explanation of own names. However, there is no doubt that this name comes from the root of היה (be). In a modern bombance, it is customary to interpret the name Yahweh as "the one who makes being" or "the one who is the cause of being."

And now let's see how the concept of Tetragrammaton explains the Jew, a former Jew, and now a Christian, Dr. Theology, who studied in the Jewish Academy of Sciences, Alexander Bolotnikov:

"The Divine name Yhwh (tetragrammaton יהוה) is derived from the Jewish verb" to be "a third party in an imperfect time ... an imperfect aspect means an unfinished action ... the verb" to be "in an imperfect aspect means a state of being that does not have the end. It includes "was, there will be". "

Here it is worth remembering what the apostle John quoted how the Lord had introduced himself to Revelation Book:

"I am Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, ... which there is and was and coming» (Rev. 1: 8).

Here John with the help of the first and last letters greek alphabet And the verbs in different time sets out the same thought, because there are no verbs in the Greek in the imperfect time, as in Hebrew.

That is, Tetragrammaton, this is not just the name of your own, but the characteristic of God: "Was there, there will be", which can be translated into Russian as a day (ever-existing, source of existence). In order to make sure of this, look at the context of Ex. 3 chapters. In 15 tbsp. God, representing Moses " was there and will ", immediately makes the emphasis that he is the same God who was with their "Fathers ..., God Abraham, God Isaac and God James"... Definitely, here is a direct connection.

How to read Tetragrammaton Yahweh, Jehovah or Surrounding?

How to read the tetragrammammaton correctly in Russian depends on the method. Basically, we read foreign words, replacing them into semantic counterparts, that is, we translate them. In this case, as explained above, the tetragrammaton is better pronounced. However, sometimes foreign words we read by pronouncing specific foreign letters in our own language. This is especially true of their own names. In this case, the question arises, is Jehovah right? Or maybe the name of God Yahweh?

For Jehovah's Witnesses, this is extremely important, as they attach great importance to the name, forgetting that its main goal is to display the nature of the creator.

Nevertheless, how is it right Jehovah or Yahweh, or not that and not else?

No one will ever be able to find a 100% answer to this question. The fact is that tetragrammaton is recorded 4 consonant letters, since the biblical writing of Hebrew did not have vowels. After a fear of accidentally violating the third commandment of the Decaloga "Do not pronounce the name of God in vain" (see Ex. 20: 7), the Israelis for several centuries BC ceased to pronounce Tetragrammaton aloud. Therefore, the phone is not known to the four consonant letters, as it is not preserved an ancient indisputable written evidence. Not wanting "in vain" to pronounce Tetragrammaton aloud when reading the sacred Scripture was replaced by the word Adonai (Lord) or Elohim (God). So in some translations of the Bible got a mistake - in a significant part of cases, the word tetragrammaton was replaced by Adonai or Elohim.

In the consequence, Christian theologians tried to publish the famous 4 consonant letters, that is, to find out how tetragrammaton should sound. And of course Christians turned to the original source - the Jewish text of the Scripture, preserved by masters. Masoids are Jews responsible for the preservation of ancient traditions, mainly Scripture.

Masids, trying to preserve the correct pronunciation of Hebrew words, at the beginning of our era began to inform the bible in the test of the consonant letters. And of course, such a heading was given and the name of God Tetragrammamaton. However, masses did not know how to pronounce Tetrarammaton correctly. Moreover, they remained loyal to the fundamental performance of the Third Commanded and were not going to pronounce the name of God Tetragrammamaton. Therefore, when heading tetragrammaton, they used the Kell / Ketib rule - readable / written, according to which some words were deliberately discharged incorrectly due to the taboo on their pronunciation. According to this rule, reader, seeing such a word, had to read it in a certain way. Tetragrammaton was announced in some cases of vowels from the word Adonai, and in a number of Elohim. A man seeing on Tetragramamaton to read from Adonai, instead of Tetragrammaton Adonai, and if there were vowels from Elohim - it was read by Elohim.

However, Christians initially did not know these rules of Judaism due to distance from the Jews. Therefore, when seeing in the text of Masselters, the tetraagrammaton was published, they accepted it as correct, although the hidden voice of the name of God. Heading of tetragramaton vocabulary from adonai occurs more often and in different versions Pronounced similar to the word Jehovah. From here, the name of God Jehovah appeared.

That is, Jehovah's name is invented by the name of God, and cannot be his real name, because the following facts remain:

• To reading the name of God, the Jews used the Kell / Cetib rule (readable / written).
• Tetragrammaton was announced not only by vowels from Adonai, but also from the word Elohim, that even in the Masorette text gives several different readings of tetragrammaton.
• The name of Jehovah appeared only in the Middle Ages thanks to Christian Translators. As you can be sure that they are right if the carriers of the name of God Jews never used the name of Jehovah and, moreover, they are confident that this is not the name of God.
• The pronunciation of tetragrammaton is not recorded in the ancients (BC) of the Jewish sources.

Thus, only when big desire You can believe that ancient name God tetragrammamaton was uttered as Jehovah. Today on the Internet you can find many articles and materials about Jehovah, but they are all just a hypotheses and theories ...

The same applies to the name of God Yahweh. He has a slightly different story. Many scholars of theologians understood that the name of God could not be Jehovah. But how then to pronounce Tetragrammaton? In the XIX century, the scholar G. Evald proposed another reading of Yahweh (Yahweh). He referred to some early Christian authors; The abbreviated form of the name of God YAH, which occurs in a number of texts of the Bible (see Ex. 15.2; Ps. 67.5); And also ending -yahu and -yah in some Jewish names.

Jews and a significant part of Christians agree that it is more correct to pronounce Yahweh. But other Christians are convinced that it is true to say the name of God-Jehovah. Who is right, or no one's right, we will never learn until the Hebrew written evidence is found, which seems unlikely.

With this in mind, and realizing that, first of all, the name of God reflects his character, it is possible to make only one conclusion - to save and the spiritual life of a believer, it does not matter how properly the name of God's name Tetragrammammaton was pronounced!

Think up if it was important, then all the prophets and apostles, and, of course, Christ would strongly indicate that it would be a believer! But this is not in the Bible! In the next section of the material, we will analyze this question.

Is it important to know the name of God? What does it mean to glorify the name of God?

If it was necessary to know the name of God for salvation, then I repeat, all the prophets and the apostles would constantly speak. And in no way Satan could not prevent this, contributing to the concealment of the true name of God, because he is not stronger than the Lord! And, of course, Christ graduated about it! However, in the New Testament, the name Tetragrammammaton is not used in a single time! Does God's Breasts did not know this or did not think about the importance of this name for their followers?! Is Jesus not wanted to save believers when he taught to call God not tetragrammammaton, and father and daddy (AVA)?!

Let's remember the famous words of Christ, which we mentioned at the beginning of the article: "Yes, your name will hire" (Matt. 6: 9). This is not a separate phrase, but a part of the prayer that begins as follows: « Pray like this: Father Our, judge in heaven! Yes, it will hire your name " (Matt. 6: 9, as well as Luk.11: 2).

Here Jesus encourages believers in prayer to contact God: "Father". And what kind of sanctification behalf next?

Here are still the most interesting words of Christ:

« I opened your name to people … I opened your name yours and openYes, love, who you loved me, will be in them, and I am in them "(John 17: 6,26).

What is the name of God the Father opened people Jesus? If this is the name Tetragrammaton, then why Jesus is never mentioning this name, and the apostles do not remember this, and even the first Christians ...?

Everything is simple here. To understand the words of Christ, you just need to know the Old Testament Scripture and the mentality of the people of that time. As previously noted, the names of God symbolized his character, that is, all the names of God of Israel were inextricably linked to the Creator. At the same time, other nations believed in their gods, who also had their own names: Moloch, Waal and others. Therefore, when in the Bible we are talking about the exaltation of the name of God, this means that believers must glorify exclusively god Israeva, not other gods.

Another well-known text, which often use Jehovah's Witnesses in defense of their position is also said.

"And the Lord will be the king on all earthy; IN THAT DAY There will be the Lord one, and his name is one. " (Zechariah 14: 9).

Let's look at all the prophecy. A little earlier, in the previous chapter, God speaks through the Prophet:

"And will be IN THAT DAY, Says the Lord Savaof, I i will destroy the names of idols From this land ... they (God's people) will call for my nameAnd I will hear them and say: "This is my people," and they will say: "Lord is my God!" "(Zechariah 13: 2.9).

And for this, in the 14th chapter, it is about defeat in the last (vessel) "THAT DAY" God of enemies of his people and restoring his kingdom on earth. From the meaning of the text it is clear that the speech here is that the names of other gods (idols, cm. Higher) will no longer be mentioned by people, but they will all call on one God. That is, as can be seen from the context, we are not talking about the only name of God, but directly about God, who agreed on Earth.

Therefore, the Scripture does not constantly indicate the specific names of God to be glorified, but speaks about the name of God Israel in general. Moreover, this applies not only to the actual glove of the Lord in prayers, letters and songs, but also to glorify it with their own affairs. Since the unplanned behavior of God's people knew his name among the pagans! This is extremely important, because before the gods were watching and evaluated by their "power and character" in the life of the peoples who confessed them. In this regard, the actions of the Jews, respectively, either glorified the name of God, that is, God himself, or silent him.

"I judged them in the ways of them and on the affairs of them. And they came to the peoples ... and reathbed holy name Mybecause they say about them: "They are the people of the Lord, and came out of his earth" "(Jes. 26: 19,20).

"And the Great Consection my name, unpleasant among peoples, among which you immobilized it, and learn the peoples that I am the Lord says the Lord God, when I will tell my holiness on you before your eyes "(Jes. 36:23).

"They crave for the earth to be on the head of the poor, and the path of meek is perverted; Even father and son go to one woman, to unlock the holy name my» (AM. 2: 7).

From these texts it is clear that the Jews did not know how such the name of the Lord, but their very much. And of course, it does not matter what it is specifically his name, but the main thing is that because of the behavior of the Israelis in the eyes of other peoples, the God of the people of Israel was cleaned.

There are other texts in the Bible that show than you can desaline the name of God and what it applies directly to the creator itself.

"If I father, where is the respect for me? And if I am the Lord, then where is the reverence of me? says the Lord Savaof you, priests, unlockful name mine. You speak: " What do we displacing your name?"You bring my unclean bread to the altar ... And when you sacrifice blind, is it not thin? Or when you bring a chrome and sick, is it not thin? ... says Lord Savaof" (Mal. 1: 6-8).

Removing THAN You can unlock the name of the Lord, it becomes clear and what can I ponder the name of God - what Jesus said to Matt. 6: 9. To prank the name of God - it is not only to voice the name of Tetragrammaton in the songs, prayers and sermons, but to glorify the god of the God of Israel in the eyes of other peoples!

This follows both the meaning of Scripture and its specific texts. It is significant how about the exaltation of the name tells the word of God:

"I will make a great people from you, and I will bless you and valido name is yours» (Gen. 12: 2).

By these words, God appeals to Abraham and clearly here it is not just about the exaltation of the name "Abraham", but about Abraham itself - the pupath of the people of God.

"I worship before the holy temple of yours and slaving your name For the mercy of yours and your truth, for you exalted your word more than your name "(Ps. 137: 2).

From this verse, it is clear that David places God of God himself, and it is also important that the presence of several names of God is mentioned here ... And besides, God's message (Word, Scripture) the Prophet puts above the names of God, since Scripture is much broader describes the character God than it is displayed in his names.

"And yes it will be erected by your name Alive, in order to say: "Lord Savaof - God over Israel" " (2 Tsar. 7:26)

Here we are talking about the God of Israel to be glorified among the peoples of the time in order to be proud of that they have such God ... And again here the two names of God ...

"And the Lord told him: I heard your prayer and your petition, what you asked me. I sanctified this temple that you built to to be named my There are forever " (3 kings. 9: 3).

It says about the Jerusalem Temple. Of course, there was not the name of God Tetragrammaton directly written on the walls ... It is about the fact that this temple was dedicated to the One God to Israel. In the Bible, the temple of Israel is not referred to as the Temple named after Tetragarammaton, and the temple of God Israel.

"Praise the name of the Lord ... From the sunrise to the West [may] be glorified by the name of the Lord. High above all nations Lord " (Ps. 112: 1-4).

Here you can see that it is about praising not just a name, as a totality of letters, but the Lord himself, the announcement that he is high above all nations.

And then what the words of Jesus mean that he opened the name of God (see above. 17: 6.26)? What is the name of God the Father opened Jesus believers? Specifically, he did not say names! But, remember Ex. 34: 6 "Lord Auditable, merciful, multi-facing ..."

It was about the nature of God who spoke Jesus:

"For so God loved the worldthat he gave his son of his own ones, so that every believer in him, did not die, but had an eternal life " (John 3:16, 1 John. 4: 10,16)

Jesus will also own himself - his life, disinterested ministry, an incomprehensible sacrifice, revealed to people the character of God - the Lord "Human-loving, merciful, multi-facing ..."

"Seek me seeing the Father» (John 14: 9).

"Which (Christ) is the image of the God of the invisible ... God ... Zaveril our hearts, so that they enlighten us cognition of Glory God in the face of Jesus Christ " (2 Cor. 4: 4,6).

Remember, above arguing about Ex. 33 and 34 chapters, we saw a direct connection between the name of God, his character and his glory, which he spent in front of Moses. In the New Testament, we clearly see the same connection.

Does the knowledge of the name Tetragrammammaton (Yahwa, Jehovah, which is)?

If it was important for salvation directly by the name of Tetragrammimmammaton (Jehovah or Yahweh or the Jewish), then the Lord would have taken care of this ... For example, it was assumed that the prophets did not allow the Israelites to impose a ban on the pronunciation of this name, or that his pronunciation is to be aware of Some manuscripts ... or the Jesus and Apostles, and then their followers (Christians of the first centuries) reported to their students - Christians the importance of knowledge of the name of God and his proper pronunciation! But this is not!

Also becoming strange that the Scripture does not mention the name of God Tetragramaon (Jehovah, Yahweh, Jehovah) up to 3 chapters of the Book Exodus. In these texts of the Bible, God is referred to in mainly Elohim with different epithets (Elion - Most High, Shaddai - Almighty, etc.). Moreover, when Jacob asked God to open his name, God did not name any name. Most likely, God understood that for Jacobus is enough that he knows about him - Elohim Most High, Almighty ...

"I asked ... Jacob, saying: tell your name. And he said: what are you asking about my name? And blessed him there " (Gen. 32:29).

I will remind you that Moses God explained that he the same God, that and the God of their ancestors is Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and therefore it was named forever existing - the goal. At this, the Creator focused on the 6th chapter of the Book Exodus:

"I was Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as the God almighty, and under the name Tetragrammammaton (Jehovah, Yahweh, forever existing, source of existence) did not open them (Ex. 6: 3, translation from the original).

Really Jacob and Abraham, and Isaac, and Noah, and their contemporaries will not be saved, once did not know the name Tetregrammaton? Of course, they will be saved, God's Bulletin speaks directly to the 11th chapter of Messages to Jews. Read it and make sure of it.

But if we do not save God with the name, then what the famous text of the Holy Scripture is the name of the famous text?

"And it will be: everyone," (Joyl. 2:32).

What did the prophet Joil?

Knowing the main rule of the interpretation of the Bible - the Word of God explains himself (about the rules of interpretation of the Bible in the material), we will find the answer to this question in the Bible itself. The prophecy refers to the Apostle Peter on Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came to believers.

"And it will be: everyone who will call the name of the Lord, will be saved» (Act. 2:21).

The Apostle Peter does not just mention this prophecy, but also says that it turned out:

« It ispredetermined by the Prophet Ioil " (Acts 2:16).

Peter connects the execution of the predetermined by Ioil with the descent of the Holy Spirit promised by Jesus (see Joan. 14-16 chapters) and in general, with the coming and ministry of Jesus Christ, what he says further, starting right with verse 22, following the studied:

« Israeli men! Listen to the words of this: Jesus Nogorhei…» (Act. 2:22).

The fact that this prophecy announced about Jesus, also spoke apostle Paul. He also uttered the specified prophecy of Joil, directly tying him with Jesus.

"For if you are tired of confessing Jesus Lord And your heart believes that God resurrected him from the dead, that will be saved ... for any who will call the name of the Lord, will be saved» (Rome.10: 9,13).

Only with a big desire can not be noticed in these verses of the unambiguous communication of the prophecy of Joyl with Jesus. Only a person, being tuned categorically and convinced in the opposite, can close the gas to the texts of the New Testament, connecting Jesus and the prophecy of Joil about salvation. Look, in the 9th text Rome. 10 ch. Paul clearly says that people who believe in Jesus are saved as in the Lord and have no doubters in his resurrection ... only then Paul says the words of Joille. Look carefully - 10 chapter up to 14 text is devoted exclusively to Jesus. At the same time, in the 9th and 13 texts in the original, the same word Lord is used - κύριος. This word is used in Dean. 2:21. Despite this, Jehovah's Witnesses in their translation "New World" in these texts put the word Jehovah.

The fact that people will be saved by the name of Jesus, they say other texts of the Bible. Peter in the same book Acts A little further than the studied text announces:

« No other name under the sky (speech about Jesus), of this personwho would have given us save» (Act. 4:12).

In the context of the sermons of Peter and Paul, Joila's prophecy has only one explanation - people are saved by Jesus, and not awareness of the name of Tetragrammamaton. But at the same time, believers are saved not just knowing the name of Jesus Christ, and Calvary - his substitution victim for humanity. It is about this that the entire Bible tells about the redemption through the substitution victim: the Old Testament - in the form of the pre-conversations of Jesus - sacrificial animals, the new reveals the True Lamb - Christ. I think that a person is carefully learning the Bible, and does not cover the eyes of the texts with the texts, understands that it is not enough to know the pronunciation of tetragrammaton and call on the name "Jesus Christ", and it is necessary to live as he taught the one who wears this name.

And again we see what they said earlier. The essence is not in the name as in this, but in its carrier. The name only points to the source - on its carrier.

Therefore, faith in what knowing the name of God saves gives people a sense of false security. After all, the name is not a magic code or password, giving a pass to the throne of the Lord. Think ourselves what is more important for salvation - know the name of God or live according to his will? What is more correct: walk and tell that God has the name of Jehovah, or preach about the grace of God, his humanity, justice and sacrificial painful death for every person Jesus Christ? All Sacred Scripture talks about the harmfulness of sin and encourages believers try to live righteously. Many texts show that those who seek to live in the truth of God, observing his commandments. Most of them are given in my book "Returning to the origins of Christian creed." I finish the same material from the last chapter of the last book of the Bible.

"Blessed those that observe the commandments of itTo have them the right to the tree of life and enter the city (new Jerusalem on the new land) goal. BUT out of - dogs and wizards, and loudeale, and murderers, and idolatles, and every loving and committing» (Rev. 22: 14,15).

As you can see, love for not true and non-compliance with the law of God, and not the ignorance of his behalf of Tetragrammammaton, can close a person in God's Holy City, where everyone will praise the name of a single God, that is himself!

Let's last repeat the facts:

1. The Bible mentions several of God's names.
2. In the biblical time the name was a carrier of information about its owner.
3. Tetragrammaton comes from the word "to be".
4. Old Testament Prophets did not focus on the need to know exactly the name Tetragrammaton for salvation.
5. New Testament Apostles, Jesus and Christians of the first centuries did not mention the name Tetragrammaton and did not focus on what the name of Tetragrammammammaton needs to know is to rescue.
6. With the glorification of the name of God or unwind the Bible binds the life of believers.
7. There is no 100% evidence that Jehovah's God is read by the name of God.
8. The name of Jehovah offered Christian translators later after the life of Jesus and the Apostles.
9. Masorette text (original Scripture in Hebrew) contains several different tetragrammaton vocuses.
10. When reading tetragrammaton, the Jews used the Kell / Ketib rule - readable / written.
11. Jews are the original carriers, the guardians of the Scriptures and ancient traditions, do not know the name of God, but they are sure that this is not Jehovah.
12. The New Testament says that people are saved only by the name of Jesus.

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Valery Tatarkin

Vladimir asks: "Everyone has a name. But I wonder how to call our God, and what is the name of God in the Bible? "

Greetings to you, Brother Vladimir!

God has a name, and not even one, but many names and titles. Scripture gives us an example of using names and titles of God. Just like in everyday life We can call the same person different names and titles depending on the circumstances, in the same way in our attitude to God. Let me illustrate it:

Suppose that we know a person, named Ivan Petrovich Sidorov, who has scientific degree Doctor of Mathematical Sciences, has military rank Colonel, is the author of a number of published works, works by the head of the department in some institution, and has his own family and the whole set of relatives. So, they appeal to him different people in different circumstances in the following way:

Spouse and Friends - Vanya
Friends and colleagues - Petrovich
Bosses and acquaintances - Sidorov
Visitors and subordinates - Ivan Petrovich
In different situations:
- Dr. Sidorov
- Colonel Sidorov
- Mr. Colonel
- Comrade Chief
- author Ivan Sidorov
Children - Dad
Grandchildren - Grandfather Ivan
Nedians - Uncle Vanya
...

This list can be continued. But all these appeals are quite acceptable in their situations, and it would not always be good anywhere and for anyone to contact him "Ivan Petrovich Sidorov", but sometimes it is appropriate to say simply and one one: Doctor, Colonel, Sidorov, author, grandfather, Father, husband and so on.

Now let's return to the Lord. The Bible presents, according to some of some, about three hundred names and titles of God we can use. These names and titles in some cases are translated into Russian, and in some left in the form, as they sound (sometimes approximately) in the original ancient Jewish and Greek languages, on which the Bible was written. I can not bring all the names and titles of God, but some:

Lord God \u003d Adonai Elohim
Jehovah \u003d Sunny
Savaof \u003d God of military
Omnipotent
Ubiquitous
Creator
Father \u003d avva
... and many others.

There are some people who would like to choose individual names and titles, and dictate to all Christians as they should be used. Yes, we are accustomed to the fact that there are certain rules for etiquette for different situations. For example, it would be not quite decent to the son of the teacher in the class during the lesson to contact her "Mom", and not "Mary Ivanovna". But who can make him call her mother by name-patronymic on change, for example?

You have a sacred writing. It has texts that are directly said: "Our Redeemer - Lord Savaof His name, Holy Israel" (), and there are texts that warn us: "Do not pronounce the name of the Lord, your God, in vain, for the Lord will not leave without punishment Who pronounces his name in vain "(). You can call God as Jesus Christ taught: "Pray as follows: Our Father, which is in heaven" (). Your personal relationship with the Lord must be your personal - in the end, you are his son! In one situation, you, together with all, list the most sublime titles of your father, calling it full nameAnd in another case, you can call it affectionately in kindergarten. And no one has the right to condemn you or dictate you.

God bless you!

Vasily Yunak

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A person at all times had seed sophistication in himself. Archaeological evidence The religious life of the departed civilizations, of which there is not a single atheistic, report high and joyful truth: at all times and the era of humanity sought to swell and sought God.

The ancient ideas about God are similar in something different. The main one of them speaks or about a certain impersonal beginning (pantheistic religions and philosophical and religious systems of the Ancient East), or put the Supreme God to the head of weaker gods (politicalism), or reflect the Creator of the Universe as a good start, a tonal evil (dualism). Interestingly, some preachristian religious and philosophical exercises Profit approached the idea of \u200b\u200bmonotheism. So, B. ancient Greek philosophy It was the concept of demiurge, the "creator and father" of the material world, and in the ancient Egyptian religious systems kept knowledge about the Sunny God RA, the father of all other gods, as well as about God Puta, which created the world. However, all these concepts combines one important position: God or not at all is considered as a person, or if it receives some personal characteristics, it is not endowed with the ability to fully communicate with its creation.

The Jews were the only people who received a revelation from the true God - they did not need to invent anything about him. But here we see that Yahwa talked not so much with the personality of each member of the Jewish community for the sake of himself, as with the whole people - through the identity of the prophet, king, priest. Accordingly, the Creator has opened up with Jews rather as a formidable legislator, a Mzovozder and a judge, and not as a sweet companion of the heart of the human or bridegroom, calling the soul to marriage. The mysteriously, stonely stated in the Old Testament about the future personal interconnection of the Creator and His Higher Creation - man. To engage in close cooperation with the soul of Adam, God himself had to become a person - to come true, perceive and heal the human nature sick with sin.

How did this exhausted devil and the head of the Higher Creation of God wounded by the Devil and wounded by passions! Subsequently, the Savior himself in the parable of the merciful Samaryanov showed the state of humanity to the time of his arrival. Human genus is likened to a wanderer's edema, lying around the road, waiting for salvation and grace. As the assistance she craved barely breathing the wanderer, and our soul with all the depths they craved God. A person needed the one who would call him and son (see Proverb. 23:26), and brother (see John 20:17), and a friend (see In.15: 15) - and he came. The Messiah, who said about himself: "I am the path and truth and life" (John 14: 6); The earthly existence of the genuine joy of God-edition and filling the dilapidated vessel with a new and incredit meaning.

His arrival changed everything. The mind gained a solid platform of the Christian worldview, the heart was restored in a certain and recognizable experience of meeting with his father, the language said the sweetest name of the Son, the soul submitted to the Spirit; The legs were shoved in the gospel of the world, his hands rose in prayer; Man gained himself. "Sitting in the darkness ... and the shadows of the death" (Matt. 4:16) got up, took a step towards God and spoke to him - tires to the mouths, face to face. And seeing God, I saw and man ... All this gave us Christ.

Singing the coming of the Savior, on behalf of the whole earth, I once exclaimed the Creator of the Psalm People: "You're my heart with a speech: Lord I will impose, the impressions of my face, your face, Lord, let's impress" (Ps. 26: 8). See the face - in the biblical context means to know close, to enter personal contact. It is almost the same as you know the name. This also says David: "God! Your name will save me "(Ps. 53: 3). Labor recognition is the knowledge of the very essence of who wears it. Therefore, Jacob, who fought with God, asked: "Tell me your name" (Gen. 32:29).

What is your name? In the Old Testament there are more than one hundred names of God's homes, such as ELOGOH ("God"), Adonai ("My Lord"), El Shaddai ("God Almighty", or "Most High", literally "the one who is on the mountain"), Savaof ("[Lord] of military") and others. But the only name of his own, who presented the Almighty to his people was specially open Moses at neanalible bay (See Ex. 3: 14-15). This name is Yahweh (Heb. יהוה). With the "decoding" of his named, God gives, as many researchers believe, rather evasive than a direct answer: "Ehier Asher Eheye", which means "I will be, which I will" (or "I am the one that is"). Most likely, the answer meant the inability to determine the essence of the Divine in the human language. It may also be that Yahwe's refusal exhaustively explain its name has the same meaning that the refusal of God to name the name Jacob: "What do you ask about my name? [It's wonderful] "(Gen. 32:29).

But more than a thousand years later enters earth history The name that God has not yet called yourself is: "You will give birth to a son, and you will give him a name: Jesus" (Lux. 1:31). And the world is destined to hear a new answer to the already familiar question: "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord will answer: "I am Jesus" (Acts. 9: 5). The time of execution of prophecies came - God enters into personal communication with man. The era of the New Testament began.

Interestingly, the literal sense of the name Jesus - "Yahweh saves" (full option jewish name Messiah: (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ - Yehoshua). The sacred tetragrammaton is hidden in the Savior name, which also emphasizes the saving power of God. Christ is one of the God who once brought Israel from Egypt, but now he came to bring every person from the captivity of the devil and slavery to his own passions. The Jews of the I century, looking at Jesus from Nazareth, saw the wandering son of the carpenter - and God stood in front of them, the same ancient Yahweh, who came to the Earth now to save the world. Opening of the New Testament name of Jesus Christ together with all the house-building of our salvation meant an offensive new era In the relationship between God and man - the Era of Personal Employment.

It is surprising to think what kind of opportunity to know God we have now. The Lord wants to live in us and more than once ("Who loves me, he keeps the word mine; and my father love him, and we will come to him and the abode of him will create" (John 14:23)). And we are given all means for this. We are given a terrible and incomprehensible sacrament of communion at which we eat the body and drink the blood of our God. If an ancient Jew said about the possibility of such a bob, he would simply have not believed. We are given a confession on which God forgives our sins and makes them "Yako not former." The relationship between the Church and Christ in the spiritual sense is defined as the marriage (see Eph. 5: 24-33), i.e. it means the close spiritual and bodily unity of the believer with the Savior. "The Mystery of this is great," the Apostle Paul comments on these new relations of God and man.
Yes, all this is amazing. But it also surprisingly thinking how much we are accustomed to this miracle and how little we use the opportunity to have such close relationships with God. We do not mind, for example, thank the Lord for life in the epoch of the New Testament Church. We sometimes do not at all understand the height at which a Christian is put - in comparison with the rest of religions and with the religious past of mankind in general. We are unfamiliar to us a sense of long expectation of the Savior and Singing from His arrival. We are far from the joy of opening the name of God, and our heart does not feel the difference between the fertile sky of the New Testament and the cold heavens of the Doharistian world. And it is necessary to think about it - to learn to thank God and appreciate what we have; To learn to love Christ and have an idea of \u200b\u200bgenuine human dignity; to know about your vocation and cry on our inconsistency; In order to mean to live in the Church of Christ and look at the world through the eyes of the New Testament man.

Message believer - New Testament, the necessary continuation and addition of revelations given by God the people of Israel in the Old Testament through the son of Jesus Christ. In this message, the Father through the Son gives an understanding and awareness of the very essence of Christianity, explaining the meaning - what is the name of God.

The new covenant does not contradict the truth and the laws established by the Father in the Old Testament, but opens up new meanings and interpretation of the eternal and immutable commandments. IN nagorno sermon Jesus gives a completely unexpected understanding of the essence of the name, the words brought from God the son of His words and largely radically changes the meaning and perception of the establishments of an immutable law.

In the New Testament, the name of God reveals completely differently, with an extraordinary completeness and new higher meaning. If earlier, God was his face indirectly and was associated with the spontaneous manifestations - thunder and lightning, without being a believer of his own, then in the new message, through the son of Jesus Christ, he, a disembodied and omnipresent Creator, became clearly visible with his children.

The Bible mentions many names of God Father. Which of them can be considered true and what father to take prayers, calling him by name?

Names, often referred to and related to language translation:

• Elohim - translated from Hebrew and means a multiple number of words El (God), the end indicates a plural, translation from greek - Theos (hence theology);
• The Lord is the transfer of an understanding of Mr., in Hebrew Adonai, translation from the Greek language - Curios.

Each name in the history of antiquity carried a certain information code and gave a complete, comprehensive description of a person, phenomenon or events. If circumstances or a person changed spiritually, he changed and the meaning of his name.

Several historical examples:

• podons (Jacob) renamed and named the winner (Israel);
• the Great to Father Abram is renamed the Father of the Peoples of Abraham;
• princess Sarah - Princess of all the peoples of Sarah;
• the son of his father gave the name Jesus - the Lord will save.

The same internal changes and a complete understanding of the meaning of God's name were modified and transformed over time.

In Scripture, it is not indicated specifically one name of the Father, the story is conducted on the face of God Israel, who has many names.

The main thing in Christianity the glorification and ministry of the Father of Heavenly on the commandments of Jesus is not in words, prayers and chants, but in acts and in cases of glory. In the Bible you can find a lot of instructions on what to desize the name of the Father can be actions and mental aspirations.

Violation of the commandments of the Father, transmitted through his son: "Children, you descend his name" - Jesus Christ said.

Old Testament

The Old Testament of the Bible carries the message of God invisible, disembodied and omnipresent, expressing his will through the elements and signs. A person could not see the face of the Creator, to stay alive after the vision was impossible. Only chosen them could see him, but only from the back, the face was not shown to them.

Father's phenomenon Believers in the Old Testament is associated with certain geographic coordinates - Sinai Mountain, Temples of Jerusalem, Covenant Ark. God himself seems to be an ubiquitous phenomenon. Embodied in all earthly manifestations.

Since in the Old Testament, God was rarely called the Father, then his understanding of him was associated with the concepts of government - rewarding and punishment for the thought and actions. God the Lord is righteous punishing and breeding.

The most often in Scripture is five names, which wants to tell us the father by every manifest name to her:

• Revisor - "... because his name is a jealous; He is the God of Rev. "(Ex. 34.14).
• Savaof - power or military. "Our Redeemer - Lord Savaof His name" (Is. 47: 4).
• Saint - "... Eternally living, - Holy Name" (Is. 57:15).
• Redeemer - "... You, Lord, our father, from the century your name:" Our Redeemer "" (Is. 63:16).
• Tetragramaon - Jehovah or Yahweh. "... Jehovah (Tetragrammaton) His name" (Ex. 15: 3).

All five names of God are characterized by his essence and explain the believers who are Heavenly Father - the power of Holy, Zener and the Redeemer.

New Testament

The understanding of the new Testament of the Bible, brought by Jesus Christ, is revealed differently - understanding and forgiveness of errors. Father revealed his face to her face, turning to them with the word consolation, forgiveness and support. Now all the messages are directed towards the spiritual thoughts and the most divine nature of people, in each of which lives the Divine beginning.

The names of God in the New Testament, brought to us the Son of his Jesus Christ others:

1. God is in the image of the Savior of his children who not only judges and punishes for sins, but also stretches loving hand help, support and understanding.
2. Mercy - forgiving the reversed of their pre-sighters.
3. God forgiven - embodied in his son Jesus, which his life and death testifies to the forgiveness of the children of the Lord;
4. Father - Jesus in his prayers calls God "Father", which is love and concern about all the children of the Creator.
5. Love - father loved his children regardless of their love for him. Unlike the god of the Old Testament, who loved only those who worshiped him. The New Testament shows the love of the sacrificial, as the highest manifestation of Divine grace through Jesus.
6. Suffering - dividing with simple person His life and suffering. Jesus took over all the sins of human in the name of atonement and salvation.

Father sent to the torment and the death of his son Jesus to show all his love for children to her.

If in the Old Testament, God is understood in the only number, then in the New Testament it appears before children in three faces, united in one divine whole.

List of famous names of God and the meanings of some of them

What are the names of God are known in Old TestamentTheir meaning:

• Surface;
• Yahweh or Jehovah - Tetragramaon;
• Elohim;
• Adonai;
• Savaof - military, strength;
• El Elyon;
• El Olam.

The New Testament, conveyed by Jesus Christ Father, completely changes the understanding of the essence of God. What is shown in his name:

• Father;
• Creator;
• Love;
• Creator;
• Savior;
• Jesus - the Lord will save;
• Christ - Anointed, Messiah;
• Light world.

Christian teaching emphasizes the importance of a single God who has appeared in three faces when baptism in the face of the Holy Trinity - God's Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

Jewish traditions

Jewish traditions adhere to a strict ban on talking and writing his name. According to Rabbi, these instructions are contained in the third commandment - do not pronounce the name of God in vain. The second reason is that the pronounced name did not hear the pagans, because even it defines it.

The name of the Lord in Orthodoxy is of fundamental importance, based on the understanding and awareness of the Divine Law of the Holy Trinity and the Trinity of the Creator, given in the New Testament.

Orthodoxy denies the name of Jehovah and Yahweh, as it denies the phenomenon of his son Jesus and the Holy Spirit, which are one with the Father. The gospel of Matthew says:

Go and teach all the peoples, the kreat of them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (28:19).

It is impossible to understand the Divine Message of the Father, transmitted through the son of His Jesus, if not read by his God.

We also know that the Son of God came and gave us the light and the mind, and they will know the God of True and will be in the true son of his Jesus Christ. This is the true God and the eternal life (1in.5: 20).

Therefore, in Orthodoxy, they refer to God - the Father, which was embodied in the Son's saint's son.

But to call on the name of God is not "Vuy", not in condemnation and decent to eating St. The Body and Blood of the Lord can only be the one who performs this - on the apostle - with reasoning (1 Cor. 11, 23-32).

All Orthodox are popular and honored God as loving FatherWho inseparable with his son with his Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, refer to God with Father, loving and merciful.

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About God Many people have their own concepts, which is not surprising. Nevertheless, we are extremely desirable to get more clear idea about God. In Scripture, he repeatedly said: "I am the Lord, your God ...". It is important for you to look for it, paying attention to his omnipotence and love. Yes, God has a lot of qualities, for example, justice! Other qualities are indicated below. It is important for you to understand that God, dealing with the fallen angel - Lucifer and a person who fell under his influence after the original sin, is forced to take into account all this. God sees the arrogance of Satan, who wanted to become a god: "And he spoke in his heart:" Walking on the sky, above the stars of God, I will take the throne and sit on my grief in the gym of the gods, on the edge of the north; go up on the height of the cloud, I will be similar to the Most High "" (IS.14: 13,14). Therefore, God takes into account the emergence of the confrontation of Satan and the person captured by him (from the body). We all live in the sinful body of the flesh! In this regard, God put his word above all, including above its essence. This is due to the fact that the creation created by him is significantly inferior to him in many respects. Consequently, God had to be conceded to them, presenting the rules of life. They are traced in them the possibility of a certain confrontation of Satan and a person against the Creator. In his wisdom, God created (besides natural) spiritual laws, presenting them in Scripture. God gave us and conscience! God did not hide the sacred writing from us. Also, his living word sounds on Earth through the prophets set by him. We certainly note that God's truth has established spiritual laws, thanks to which God rules on earth. It is important for you to see them!

Today, many people relieves their own justice, putting a person and his right to first place. This point of view is erroneous. It is because of this, Western civilization in many ways tolerates the collapse in spiritual matters. Yes, man is the top of creation! However, who made man and what? It has long been said: "Let's heard the essence of everything: be afraid of God and command him, because it is all for a person" (Eccles.12: 13). It is also written: "Or do you think that Scripture says in vain:" Does the Spirit living in us love in vain? " (Jac.4: 5). It is clearly said: "For the Lord, God, is there, there is a fire that is, the God of the Zeper" (Deven 4: 24). It is important to you to see both the goodness and the justice of God. Many of its qualities are revealed through the names that God called himself. Carefully read about them! Otherwise, who and how will you worship? Keep in mind that the result of your worship you will acquire a certain spiritual development. It will affect your place in eternity and, in the end, to the end status! There is a hierarchy in the sky (LC. 19: 16-19). The day and your spirit will come (inner man) will come to God. You will be extremely regretted if you do not prepare it. Read the First Commandment: "Jesus said to him: Love the Lord God of your God with all your heart and all the souls of yours and all the understanding of yours: this is the first and greatest commandment" (MF.22: 37.38).

So, let's start with the Old Testament period. In Tora, the name of God is of his own, and its divine attributes.

Tetragrammammaton (IVR.YHWH - Yahwa or Jehovah) - a four-letter non-prosecable name of the Lord, which is considered his own name of God, unlike other epitieties of God. Jews attributed the great power to mention the name of God and were afraid to pronounce him. In Hebrew, only consonant letters are used, so it is not known exactly how it was uttered in antiquity. In everyday life, in prayers pronounce "Adonai" (Lord).

There was an indirect appeal to this Divine name.

Elohim (Single words for him - El and Eloch, as well as Arabic Allah).

Adonai - Lord

Ha-Shem (Name) -Hell Jews were considered to pronounce even the word "adonai". They just told the "name".

Savaof - (Tsevaot, literally "(Lord of the Militans") - "Lord of Forces"

El Schaddai - "God Almighty", "God - Provider."

El Olam - "God strong"

El Ellion - "God of Most High."

Also to the name of God is often added one of its qualities.

YHWH-RO "And -" Jehovah - My Shepherd "(PS.22: 1)

Yhwh-Il "E -" Jehovah Uses "(Gen..22: 8,14)

Yhwh-Shalom - "Jehovah - World" (court.6: 24)

Yhwh-Rof "Echo -" Jehovah - Your Healer "(OSE.15: 26)

Yhwh-Cidkein - "Jehovah justification by our!" (Ier.23: 6)

Yhwh-Shamma - "Jehovah there" (Jes.48: 35)

YHWH-NISSI - "Jehovah - My Banner" (OX.17: 15)

Yhwh-Mekadshhem - "Jehovah, sanctifying you" (Lion.20: 8)

In Messianic Judaism, the name Tetragrammaton refers to the Father and the Holy Spirit, which are the first and third faces of the Divine (Elohim), and Yeshua - to the Son.

Old Testament is not a collection of archaisov, as some Christians think. After all, we show the nature of God and are given numerous examples from the life of great people. Also, we are given advice on many cases in life. When God gave his people commands and laws, he pursued three goals. First, God showed and outlined the security area for his people! Secondly, God warned about the consequences for violators of the law. Thirdly, God wanted to build a close relationship with those elected who answered his desires! Please note that the Tanahs were first to Jews, and they see the correlation between the names and character of a person. God gave them this understanding of the importance of human names, and refers it to himself, as it wishes to give a revelation to people about themselves and its character. Therefore, to understand the names of God means to understand God's revelation about himself.

Therefore, again, read about the names of God.

El Elyon - God Most High; ruler and the owner of the sky and land; The one who orders (Genesis 14:18; 2 of the kingdoms 22:14).

Elohim is God. This is the name of the plural, shows us the plurality of a single God. God said to Genesis 1:26: "Certain a person in the image of our way." Here is meant two or more in one (Exodus 35:31).

Adonai is my Lord (Genesis 15: 2; Deuteronomy 9:26; Psalm 50:16).

Yahweh, Lord or Jehovah - one who always is; permanent "I am"; Eternally existing (Exodus 3:15; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 26: 4).

El Shadday - the provider, literally - "a multi-retail or almighty, which has the whole strength; constantly pouring care to his children and satisfying their needs (Genesis 17: 1).

Savaof - "Lord of Forces" (1 sir.17: 45; Ps.23: 10, IS.1: 24, etc.).

Jehovah-Shammah - Lord there; He is constantly present where we are (Ezekiel 48:35).

Jehovah-Shalom - Lord our world and fullness (judges 6:24).

Jehovah-Ira - the Lord I will see for us (Genesis 22:14).

Jehovah-Nissi - Lord our banner and our victory (Exodus 17:15).

Jehovah-cideke - Lord - our justification; Lord, lifting in his righteousness (Jeremiah 23: 6; Jeremiah 33:16).

Jehovah Roof (Rafa) is the Lord healing us (Exodus 15:26).

Jehovah-PO-XU (PA "AH) - Lord We are loving, guide shepherd (Psalm 22: 1).

Jehovah-Mekadish, who is the Lord, sanctifying us (Exodus 31:13).

Jehovah-Yasha-Gal: Lord Our Savior and Redeemer (Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 60:16).