Does it not matter by which name you call God?
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I think in the same way that you call your father "daddy" and not "my daddy", we need not be so specific as to say "The God".  However, if your father was John and you called him Michael, that will draw some eyebrows.  Therefore, the name is important yes but he has given us freedom to call him respectfully in the various names that he has given us to call him in the bible.  Jesus even thought us to pray "Our Father in heaven ..."
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You first need to define what/who God is. :)
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No.  Names are just names.  If I name my kid adolph, does that mean he's a bad person?  No, although you might want to stay away from names like hitler.  Jesus is cool though.
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The Alpha and Omeaga are few of the names that God is called by in the Bible. There are over 200 names that is use for God
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So how does someone's name have anything to do with myth and superstition?\n\nAnyway, as others have pointed out, the name of Immanuel is more of a descriptor than a birth name.  It's a lot like the man born as Sidartha came to be know as The Buddha or just buddha, meaning "enlightened one".  \n\nJust because you don't believe what someone else does, it doesn't make all your counter arguments right.  I think it's being petty to pick apart every detail such as names and nicknames and hold it up as proving or disproving the existence of God or the nature of Jesus.
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What are you talking about? which god with a little "g" do you serve that would do such a thing? Not the God of all Glory and Creation, Jesus Christ!
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God's name is divine like God's Essence. God's name is the source of God's light. God's name , written or printed on paper does not render light. God's name is granted to Ptophets and Saints in form of light nto their hearts. The Gift of God's name is passed onto hearts of aspirants. A true spirtual Guide is divinely blessed with the power and authority of conferring God's name to those who seek enlightment. So search some spirtual Guide with Divine bless and authority,if you did not find, visit www.goharshahi.com and test your luck.
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"God" is a title.  Most christians unknowingly follow an old jewish custom of not saying God's name, which in english is Jehovah.\n\nMost modern day translations of the Bible have taken the name out and replaced it with GOD, LORD, or other such titles.  Most bibles even explain their reasonings in the forward.\n\nYou can actually find the name used in the King James Version at Psalm 83:18, Exodus 6:3, Isaiah 12:2, and Isaiah 26:4
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Why does it matter? This is God's decision and not ours.
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Why do many Bible translations not use the personal name of God or use it only a few times?\n\nThe preface of the Revised Standard Version explains: “For two reasons the Committee has returned to the more familiar usage of the King James Version: (1) the word ‘Jehovah’ does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew; and (2) the use of any proper name for the one and only God, as though there were other gods from whom he had to be distinguished, was discontinued in Judaism before the Christian era and is entirely inappropriate for the universal faith of the Christian Church.” (Thus their own view of what is appropriate has been relied on as the basis for removing from the Holy Bible the personal name of its Divine Author, whose name appears in the original Hebrew more often than any other name or any title. They admittedly follow the example of the adherents of Judaism, of whom Jesus said: “You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.”—Matt. 15:6.)\n\nTranslators who have felt obligated to include the personal name of God at least once or perhaps a few times in the main text, though not doing so every time it appears in Hebrew, have evidently followed the example of William Tyndale, who included the divine name in his translation of the Pentateuch published in 1530, thus breaking with the practice of leaving the name out altogether.\n\nWas the name Jehovah used by the inspired writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures?\n\nJerome, in the fourth century, wrote: “Matthew, who is also Levi, and who from a publican came to be an apostle, first of all composed a Gospel of Christ in Judaea in the Hebrew language and characters for the benefit of those of the circumcision who had believed.” (De viris inlustribus, chap. III) This Gospel includes 11 direct quotations of portions of the Hebrew Scriptures where the Tetragrammaton is found. There is no reason to believe that Matthew did not quote the passages as they were written in the Hebrew text from which he quoted.\n\nOther inspired writers who contributed to the contents of the Christian Greek Scriptures quoted hundreds of passages from the Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. Many of these passages included the Hebrew Tetragrammaton right in the Greek text of early copies of the Septuagint. In harmony with Jesus’ own attitude regarding his Father’s name, Jesus’ disciples would have retained that name in those quotations.—Compare John 17:6, 26.\n\nIn Journal of Biblical Literature, George Howard of the University of Georgia wrote: “We know for a fact that Greek-speaking Jews continued to write ???? within their Greek Scriptures. Moreover, it is most unlikely that early conservative Greek-speaking Jewish Christians varied from this practice. Although in secondary references to God they probably used the words [God] and [Lord], it would have been extremely unusual for them to have dismissed the Tetragram from the biblical text itself. . . . Since the Tetragram was still written in the copies of the Greek Bible which made up the Scriptures of the early church, it is reasonable to believe that the N[ew] T[estament] writers, when quoting from Scripture, preserved the Tetragram within the biblical text. . . . But when it was removed from the Greek O[ld] T[estament], it was also removed from the quotations of the O[ld] T[estament] in the N[ew] T[estament]. Thus somewhere around the beginning of the second century the use of surrogates [substitutes] must have crowded out the Tetragram in both Testaments.”—Vol. 96, No. 1, March 1977, pp. 76, 77.\n\nWhich form of the divine name is correct—Jehovah or Yahweh?\n\nNo human today can be certain how it was originally pronounced in Hebrew. Why not? Biblical Hebrew was originally written with only consonants, no vowels. When the language was in everyday use, readers easily provided the proper vowels. In time, however, the Jews came to have the super
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becuase the most bible were re-written by some people who called themselves scholars and  thought it is too sacred and that they strictly followed the commandment not to take his name in vain so they reverted to titles such as lord, god and as such.\n\nbut the truth is, are we going to desecrate god's name if we use? even jesus his son, in his model prayer urged us to sanctify his name, so then how can we sanctify it if we are too afraid to use it?\n\nits not becuase you are not one of the Jehovah's Witnesses taht would prohibit you to use his name\n\nanother reason to use his name specially if youre praying, is that it would identify WHICH god you are talking to!! hello!! are you not aware that even satan was called god? god of evil for that matter, that even in rome... a lot of god and goddeses exist!!
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The term "Allah" simply means "the [one] god", implying a single Almighty deity reminiscient of the Judeo-Christian "Yahweh" / "Jehovah". However, it is significant that "Allah" is clearly NOT a personal name, while the Hebrew Tetragrammaton clearly *IS* a personal name for Almighty God.\n\nIt's not exactly wrong to call the Almighty by the impersonal "God", just as it's not wrong to call one's offspring "Child". Faithful men of the Holy Scriptures used both "God" and a form of "Jehovah" when they referred to and addressed the Almighty. However, the term "Allah" seems intended specifically to reject Judeo-Christian spiritual heritage.\n\nIf we want a familiar and close relationship, it makes sense to use the personal name of someone we love. The Scriptures encourage us to use God's personal name.\n\nThe Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) does seem to accurately pronounce the divine name. Just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English.\n\nThe important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! The name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God” or “Lord”, especially if you speak Hebrew. If you speak English, feel free to use the name "Jehovah".\n\n(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth\n\n(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/na/index.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/na/
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No. Lots of Hebrew names for people end in El or in Yah (which is God's name). The word El in a name simply recognizes God, or how the one with the name relates to God. Try looking up the WHOLE meaning of each of these names. For instance, Michael means "who is like God?", and Gabriel means "man of God" or "warrior of God". I don't see any way that this could be taken to mean that the angels themselves are gods.
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My Religion isn't a religion at all it is a way of life,the way YAH.YAH is the name of what you would call god but he isn't god.YAH's name is featured in the old testament many times go to Sums 68:4. Some may say JAH Or Some other thing but His name is YAH and he is the father of the hebrews.
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It is true that the Almighty did not say, "Listen, thousands of years from now when a new language called English comes along, they can pronounce my name as 'Jehovah' and that's fine."\n\nInstead, like with any and every personal name, different languages TRANSLATE personal names to fit their lingual tendencies. George becomes "Hor-hey" in Spanish or "Gay-org" in German and no one gets upset.\n\nAs another answer mentions, the same people who get all upset about translating the Hebrew name 'Yahweh' or 'Yehowah' into English as 'Jehovah' have absolutely no such qualms about translating the Hebrew name 'Yeshua' into English as 'Jesus'!\n\nIf you don't like the English translation, no one is telling you that you can't use the Hebrew original of the divine name.
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The best way to handle this is we all learn to speak and read hebrew and greek in less i'm mistaken is what language the Word was written.Then we will call His name correctly. I call Him(God-Allah ) Daddy so am I wrong? I think as long as you call on him and are respectable that is what truly matters. Oh yeah great info!!!!!!!
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Moses was said to be the one who God revealed his personal name.YHWH(there was only one) Gods statement in Exodus 3:14 'eyeh 'eyeh (I AM WHO I AM, I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE, I CAUSE TO BE WHAT IS). It is said according to Jewish religions that sometime after the Babylonian Exile the name YHWH proper pronounication was lost and to miss pronounce it defiles the holiness of God. A substitue was used "Adonai" or LORD is now used. In the bible God said "my title for all generations"\n                 The following\nThe LORD, The God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob