Why did People Start Using 'That Name' to Talk about Our Heavenly Creator? / myLot

By Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

May 7, 2021 11:53am CST

You know 'Name' I'm talking about. I don't think it's 'the Name that He told Moses' ... https://biblehub.com/interlinear/exodus/3-14.htm Where I think they got 'the WRONG name': when the Hebrews were on their Exodus trek to find The Promised Land, they came across a lot of walled cities. Each walled city named their wall and worshipped it (for its protection of them). The Aramaic Hebrew for 'wall' was "gad" (as in their name for the fallen angel Gadriel). The Hebrews got used to the cities' people each worshipping their own 'gad' and wanted there to be a Hebrew 'gad'; and Moses reminded them that their 'gad' was "the Gad of gads.' And it stuck, just like people today think that Halloween was started by Christians. Or am I making that up? When do YOU think they started calling our creator 'God' rather than "Elohim" or Yahweh or Y-H-V-H or (as Spanish speakers still do call him) EL?

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16085)

• Nairobi, Kenya

7 May 21

I really don't know. All I know is that the only name with power is Jesus

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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21437)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

8 May 21

Except no. One, the name (or its Aramaic Hebrew root) only points to the truly powerful name. And two, you've "been told" that's the powerful name so many times that you FEEL like you 'know' it. Or maybe I'm guessing wrong. I don't know your experience; tell me how you experienced the power of The Name.

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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21437)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

8 May 21

@mildredtabitha So you experienced 'getting dunked in a pool of water?'

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16085)

• Nairobi, Kenya

8 May 21

@mythociate are you born again?