The True Name of God

[mee]

Originally Posted by bananabrain

i know where it's from, mee. and there's a lot more to it than that.

b'shalom

bananabrain

very true there certainly is

The

True God Revealed

The true God is readily distinguishable from the many false gods. He is the almighty Creator of the universe, including planet Earth and mankind upon it.

He has a unique personal name—Jehovah, or Yahweh.

He is no part of a mysterious triune god, or Trinity.

He is a God of love, and he wishes only the best for his human creation.

But he is also a God of justice, and he will not forever tolerate those who insist on ruining the earth and fomenting wars and violence.

Jehovah has revealed his determination not only to rid the earth of wickedness and suffering but also to make it a paradise where honesthearted people can live forever in happiness. (Psalm 37:10, 11, 29, 34)


Almighty God has now installed his Son, Jesus, as the heavenly King of God’s Kingdom, and soon Jesus will usher in that new world of righteousness and restore Paradise conditions to our earth.—Daniel 2:44; Matthew 6:9, 10.


yes great meaning in that name JEHOVAH (HE CAUSE TO BECOME)

[arthra]

See maybe it's that English pronunciation of "J" as "Gee.."

You have people saying Jesus as "Gee-sus" instead of "He-sus" .. Ye-ushua .. In Arabic "Isa".

I named my son "Ian" ...people in America have a problem with that name . They want to say "eye-on".

So to me this name of God issue that's being brought up is most likely a cultural thing. God loves us even when we mispronounce His Name.. Wouldn't you love your grandson even if he couldn't correctly pronounce or spell your name?

- Art

[mee]

Originally Posted by arthra

See maybe it's that English pronunciation of "J" as "Gee.."

You have people saying Jesus as "Gee-sus" instead of "He-sus" .. Ye-ushua .. In Arabic "Isa".

I named my son "Ian" ...people in America have a problem with that name . They want to say "eye-on".

So to me this name of God issue that's being brought up is most likely a cultural thing. God loves us even when we mispronounce His Name.. Wouldn't you love your grandson even if he couldn't correctly pronounce or spell your name?

- Art

whats important is to use that name , and to make it known , not to take it away from the bible like they have done .


That it is correct to use the Divine Name in the language we speak should not seem so strange.

It is just the same with other names.

Is your name "John" in English? Well, it is not that in the Spanish language, for in Spanish it would be "Juan." In the French language that same name would be "Jean." In the German language it is "Johannes." In Hebrew it is "Yohhanán." In other languages this same name could be pronounced in varying ways. But just because your name is pronounced differently in different languages, would you abandon its use in your own language altogether? Of course not! Neither should God’s name be abandoned just because it is pronounced differently in different languages!

[arthra]

It's all about love "mee"..

God loves us and that should be where it starts in my view... quibbling over His Name only makes matters worse.

- Art

[mee]

Originally Posted by arthra

It's all about love "mee"..

God loves us and that should be where it starts in my view... quibbling over His Name only makes matters worse.

- Art

yes love for God, and love for humans .

but when it comes to the name of God ,he had that name put in the bible, and it is not showing love to God to remove it .


he wants that name to be brought to the fore, in fact he even wants a people for his name.



‘You are my witnesses,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and I am God.’"—ISAIAH 43:12.

Jesus laid down a dependable rule for identifying what is true or false in regard to religion. He said: "By their fruits you will recognize them. . . . Every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit . . . Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire." (Matthew 7:16-19)

Thus, to determine the true God from false ones, and true worshipers from false ones, we need to examine what they produce. Is their fruitage "fine," or is it "worthless"?


For example, which of the world’s religions has established genuine peace among its adherents earth wide?

Surely, members of the true religion, spiritual brothers, should not be killing one another.

But a hundred million people have been killed in the wars of this 20th century, and all those wars have been supported by the religions of this world.

As a result, religious people have killed other religious people.

Much of the time, they have killed people of their own religion.

Catholics have killed Catholics, Protestants have killed Protestants, Muslims have killed Muslims, and those of other religions have followed the same course.

A witness for the true God should be one who bears testimony about Him


In addition to making known the true God’s name, what, especially, would his witnesses be saying about his purposes?

Jesus set the example by teaching his followers to pray to the true God: "Let your kingdom come." (Matthew 6:10)

God’s heavenly Kingdom is the government that will ultimately rule the entire earth. (Daniel 2:44)

It was the theme of Jesus’ teaching. (Matthew 4:23)

Because the Kingdom is the only solution for mankind’s troubles, he urged: "Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness."—Matthew 6:33.



yes its all about love for God and love of neighbor love is the surpassing thing

[bananabrain]

what a load of arsewash. "let's use J for consistency" and then trying to make out like you're being analytical. each to his own, of course, but you're not convincing anyone here, you do know that? honestly, it's like a broken record.

"yes and it is very good "

b'shalom

bananabrain

[GlorytoGod]

check this out

YouTube - Names of God

[mee]

Search for Jehovah, you people, while he may be found. Call to him while he proves to be near.

isaiah 55;6


"I am Jehovah. That is my name; and to no one else shall I give my own glory, neither my praise to graven images.
isaiah 42;8

[arthra]

I liked this video:

YouTube - The 99 Beautiful Names of Allah

This one has a great chant like quality:

YouTube - Names of God

I've also heard the Vishnu Sahasranaama chanted:

YouTube - Shree Vishnu Sahasranaama Chanting

The thousand names of Vishnu.

- Art

[~estrella~]

Excerpt of "Synthesis of Yoga" (Part III, chapter I), Sri Aurobindo:

To all of [our emotions towards God = Divinity] He answers, taking us in the stage of progress in which we are; for if we met no kind of response or help to our imperfect approach, the more perfect relations could never be established. Even as men approach him, so he accepts them and responds too by the divine Love to their bhakti, 'tathaiva bhajate'.

Whatever form of being, whatever qualities they lend to him, through that form and those qualities He helps them to develop, encourages or governs their advance and in their straight way or their crooked draws them towards Him. What they see of him is a truth, but a truth represented to them in the terms of their own being and consciousness, partially, distortedly, not in the terms of Its own higher reality, not in the aspect which It assumes when we become aware of the complete Divinity. This is the justification of the cruder and more primitive elements of religion and also their sentence of transience and passing. They are justified because there is a truth of the Divine behind them and only so could that truth of the Divine be approached in that stage of the developing human consciousness and be helped forward; they are condemned, because to persist always in these crude conceptions and relations with the Divine is to miss that closer union towards which these crude beginnings are the first steps, however faltering.

idem, chapter V:

Even on the cosmic plane we are constantly approaching the Divine on either of these sides. We may think, feel and say that God is Truth, Justice, Righteousness, Power, Love, Delight, Beauty; we may see him as a universal force or as a universal consciousness. But this is only the abstract way of experience.

As we ourselves are not merely a number of qualities or powers or a psychological quantity, but a being, a person who so expresses his nature, so is the Divine a Person, a conscious Being who thus expresses his nature to us. And we can adore him through different forms of this nature, a God of righteousness, a God of love and mercy, a God of peace and purity; but it is evident that there are other things in the divine nature which we have put outside the form of personality in which we are thus worshipping him.

The courage of an unflinching spiritual vision and experience can meet him also in more severe or in terrible forms. None of these are all the Divinity; yet these forms of his personality are real truths of himself in which he meets us and seems to deal with us, as if the rest had been put away behind him.
He is each separately and all altogether. He is Vishnu, Krishna, Kali; he reveals himself to us in humanity as the Christ personality or the Buddha personality. When we look beyond our first exclusively concentrated vision, we see behind Vishnu all the personality of Shiva and behind Shiva all the personality of Vishnu. He is the Ananta-guna, infinite quality and the infinite divine Personality which manifests itself through it.

Again he seems to withdraw into a pure spiritual impersonality or beyond all idea even of impersonal Self and to justify a spiritualised atheism or agnosticism; he becomes to the mind of man an indefinable, anirdeśyam. But out of this unknowable the conscious Being, the divine Person, who has manifested himself here, still speaks, “This too is I; even here beyond the view of mind, I am He, the Purushottama.”

[mee]

"The senseless one has said in his heart: ‘There is no Jehovah.’" (Ps. 14:1)

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[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

My personal opinion is that we all know it, but we don't know it.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[mee]

Originally Posted by bananabrain

but you're not convincing anyone here, you do know that? honestly, it's like a broken record.

"yes and it is very good "

b'shalom

bananabrain

it makes no difference at all if people are not convinced, as long as i am bringing the true Gods name to the fore , and not hiding that great name thats ok many times in the past , many people were not convinced , but it did not stop Jehovahs name from being made known.
Regardless of the response to that great name, it will be made known.
How people respond will come from them.


think about in Noahs day , Noah was a preacher for many years, and not many were convinced that Noah was right , but it did not stop Gods purpose from becoming a reality.(theflood)

And the bible says that people will have to know that HE IS JEHOVAH .


And I shall certainly magnify myself and sanctify myself and make myself known before the eyes of many nations; and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.’EZEKIEL 38;23
To preserve their lives through the greatest tribulation of all human history men will run for cover. But where? They will not be trusting in Jehovah, but in their own organizations.
they will turn to human, political governments and commercial organizations, which dominate the earth like lofty mountains, as backbones of the present system of things.


People will try to hide themselves, seeking to escape the wrath of Jehovah.

Divine prophecy will inevitably be fulfilled.

What is forecast in the signs of the times will have caught up with them as everlasting cutting off in destruction descends upon all opposers of the kingdom of God.

yes many will not be convinced that Jehovah is the true God, but in the end they will have to know that he is JEHOVAH.


In modern times Jehovah’s Witnesses have been very open in expressing their Bible-based views, even though this has not been popular.


And bringing Gods name to the fore is just one of those bible views, among many others

[mee]

Originally Posted by Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

My personal opinion is that we all know it, but we don't know it.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

or even that many know it ,but they dont want to come to know the true God .