This thread was inspired by another great one by @Aunty Jane in the thread about your favorite English translation.
The last part proved again Hebrews 4:12, the word of God is alive; I keep thinking about the Lord's Prayer and Hallowed be thy name. And that begs the question, what is God's personal name?
I'm not sure how "I AM" became equated by many to be his personal name. As AJ said, that is WHAT he is. The VOICE translation emphasizes this with the word ETERNAL rather than LORD. The ETERNAL God, the LORD God, Jehovah God?
I generally like the NLT, which reads GE 3:15 "God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you. This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations."
Yet, earlier in GE 2, the NLT uses the title LORD (capital), as many translations do instead of his personal name. Here is how the New World Translation renders GE 2, which is consistent with EX 3:15.
This is the only name that God gave for himself in the Bible....and he said it was to be his name forever.
Exodus 3:15, in most English translations eliminates God's name and follows the lead of the disobedient Jews who were never told to replace God's illustrious name with a mere title. The ASV is one of the few that include the divine name in English.
"The Lord" is WHAT he is...."Jehovah" (Yahweh) is WHO he is.
The Bible is inspired of God...he is its author....so you have to ask what author would ever allows his name to be removed from his own work and replaced with the title, "Author"? That is insulting! So Christendom has a lot of explaining to do IMO....parroting off the Lord's Prayer saying, "Hallowed be thy name.....but never uttering it.
The last part proved again Hebrews 4:12, the word of God is alive; I keep thinking about the Lord's Prayer and Hallowed be thy name. And that begs the question, what is God's personal name?
I'm not sure how "I AM" became equated by many to be his personal name. As AJ said, that is WHAT he is. The VOICE translation emphasizes this with the word ETERNAL rather than LORD. The ETERNAL God, the LORD God, Jehovah God?
I generally like the NLT, which reads GE 3:15 "God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you. This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations."
Yet, earlier in GE 2, the NLT uses the title LORD (capital), as many translations do instead of his personal name. Here is how the New World Translation renders GE 2, which is consistent with EX 3:15.
4 This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time they were created, in the day that Jehovah* God made earth and heaven.c
5 No bush of the field was yet on the earth and no vegetation of the field had begun sprouting, because Jehovah God had not made it rain on the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist would go up from the earth, and it watered the entire surface of the ground.
7 And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dustd from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life,e and the man became a living person.*f 8 Further, Jehovah God planted a garden in Eʹden,g toward the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.h 9 Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food and also the tree of lifei in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.
This was a big eye opener and I look forward to your responses.5 No bush of the field was yet on the earth and no vegetation of the field had begun sprouting, because Jehovah God had not made it rain on the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist would go up from the earth, and it watered the entire surface of the ground.
7 And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dustd from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life,e and the man became a living person.*f 8 Further, Jehovah God planted a garden in Eʹden,g toward the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.h 9 Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food and also the tree of lifei in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.
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