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His Name?
Our family has been investigating the names of God and His Son lately. This is a question that came up for me a year ago, but it wasn’t until this past month that we really spent some time together as a family (well, Larry and I) researching the topic. As a result of our findings, and the names of God found in the original languages our family has begun referring to God as Yahweh, and His son as Yeshua – though we do some switching back and forth as our children are familiar with the anglicized Latin translation of their names. Now, as a blogger I’ve continued to use the common English translations/titles God and Jesus.
I have a quick question for my readers. Would you feel comfortable and know who I’m talking about if I use the original names of God? Why or why not? Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I do feel comfortable either original or common name of God. But if I am into prayer or a special time where I sit down and just try to reflect, I would love to call unto God the name that I used to. Just like calling an Old friend. The important thing is the condition of our hearts towards God.
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It’s funny you ask. I was reading The Kingdom Strikes Back to my kids the other day and my husband asked why I kept using the name Yahweh. He thought it was odd. I was like, well it is His name. I’m more comfortable with God for the Father and I like the title Christ for Jesus. I use the name Lord a lot, too. I actually took Hebrew in college and was really into it for a while. I already knew German so I even studied Yiddish. I had read the Thoene books on World War II and Isreale becoming a nation and also Herman Wouk’s books Winds of War and War and Remembrance. I loved Hebrew and would like to study it again. However, since I speak English I like to use the English terms. I have a Martin Luther translation of Die Bibel and so in it God is Gott. I also did a Precept Bible study once on the names of God called Lord I want to know you. It was really cool and I hope to have my ladie’s Bible study go through it next year.
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