Thursday, June 4, 2009

The Names of God.....

Lloyd Cole As ancient Greece's Hellenistic enlightenment period fell into the dark days of ignorance, it made way for the rising empirical Rome.While Rome enjoyed the days of military strength and literary superiority reached its zenith old man Rome did fell. He also went into gross darkness,then the middle aged ushered in a long period for about five hundred years. Now the information age here, just as Daniel the Seer said it would. Yeshua said all that was covered will be now uncovered. also sacred Gnostic in Hieroglyphics, books that existed before Abraham, books after the exile of the Children of Israel up to Yeshua and his Apostles, and gnostic teachings from the risen Yeshua the Kristos to the apostle Peter, John and Paul. However Daniel the Seer said only the WISE would understand, the questions are who was considered wise in Daniel's time period and are these wise ones still exist? My research shows that they do exist.

NAMES OF GOD IN JUDAISM
by Dr Toris Dimitroies:
1.Tetragrammaton [YHWH,YHVH or JHVH] from the Greek “Τετραγραμματον” meaning (word of)four letters. One of the most important names of God in Judaism is the Tetragrammaton. This name is first mentioned in the book of Genesis and is usually translated as “the Lord”. Because Jews have for a long period of time considered it blasphemy to pronounce, (the prohibition of blasphemy, for which capital punishment is given, there is in Jewish law Soferim iv., end; comp. Sanh..66a) the correct pronunciation of this name has been forgotten – the original Hebrew texts only included consonants. Modern scholars conjecture that it was pronounced ”Yahweh”. According to Jewish tradition, in appearance YHWH is the third person singular imperfect of the verb “to be”, meaning therefore “God is” or “God will be” or perhaps “God lives”. This explanation agrees with the meaning of the name given in Exodus 3;14 where God is represented as speaking and hence as using the first person – “I am”. The meaning would therefore be that God exists by Himself, the uncreated Creator who doesn’t depend on anything or anyone else; therefore “I am who I am”.

2. El .
The word El appears in other northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenicians and Aramaic. In Akkadian , Ilu is the ordinary word for God. It is also found also in Old South Arabian and in Ethiopic, and, as Hebrew, it is often used as an element in proper names. In northwest Semitic texts it often appears to be used of one single God, perhaps the head of the pantheon, sometimes specifically said to be the Creator.
El is used in both the singular and plural, both for other Gods and for the God of Israel. Other examples of its use with some attribute or epithet are:
- El Elyon (“ Most High God” )
- El Shaddai (“God Almighty” )
- El ‘Olam (“Everlasting God”)
- El Hai (“Living God”)
- El Ro’ i (“God of Seeing”)
- El Elohe Israel (“God, the God of Israel”)
- El Gibbor (“God of Strenght”) .
- In addition , names such as Gabriel (“Strength of God”),Michael (“He Who is Like God”), Raphael (“God’s medicine”) and Daniel (“God is my Judge”) use God’s name in a similar fashion.

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