What is God's name?

In Hebrew as some state unspellable because there are no vowels, it is YHWH Yahweh or LORD with all caps. And then the list goes on to more than a hundred: from Abba meaning “Daddy” (Yes, our Holy God letting us call Him Daddy!), to Alpha and Omega. I would refrain from Allah or the watchtower stuff, not the same god as YHWH!

ohh..is that true. Thats very good to know. It in fact answers a few old questions in my mind. But I still have a small doubt - I have heard that there was persecution and that the Jewish tribes did not accept Jesus as the messaiah ? Is it true. Sorry if I am starting to sound ignorant but I have had my sources of conflicting information :) If I am not wrong, Jesus was sent to the transgressing Jewish populace !! I am sure I need to read up more and I am trying to do that. Just getting info from here too.

btw, you win your bet !! I am neither Jewish nor Christian. I am a Muslim. And just FYI. Thought it might be informative for you to know.

The God of Abraham is also the one worshiped by Muslims - But the claim is that He is the ONLY God who is not a man which was actually the idea followed by Adam, David, Solomon, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad (peace be upon them all) and all the other messengers (prophets) of God. This is such a simple and straightforward concept. No personification. None of the messengers had seen God and none could. God is a powerful entity. He does not need to be a man to know about humans. He is the creator and is so great that He knows everything that happens all the time. Not even a leaf falls on the Earth without his knowledge. He does not have human traits like eating, sleeping, sex etc. He is far exalted beyond that. He is pure and supreme.

Thats an interesting statement, cleopatra1 and a decent explanation aurthur001!! But I am stumped by my limited knowledge. I am reading up on it currently. But I am still trying to figure out from the earliest transcriptions, if people meant Jesus (peace be upon him) and Jehovah to be the same or different ? But as far as I know - The Jewish God and the Christian Gods are different. There is no amity between these concepts as history says. And my current guess is that they were different. I am not sure how it implicates my understanding of the above question where Jehovah was a “Jewish concept”. But is it true that they were different? I still don’t know. But I am trying to find out.

Also Aurther001, I am not sure about the following statements. Just fyi !!

1). “Also interesting is the fact that the Quran does assert the Jesus of Nazareth is the only sinless man to ever live”

• I dont think thats the qur’aan says so. Appreciate if you could please substantiate it with a reference.

2). All the Chirstians that he met in the middle east would have been Nestorian heretics who denied the union of Christ with the Father.

• So whats the point you are trying to make with this statement ? Nevertheless, I am not sure even if this statement is true. Anyways how does it matter.

Cheers.

Your question is - what is God’s real name ? Is it Jehovah ?

My answer is - God is in English. Allah in Arabic. Jehovah In hebrew. Names are just lexicons of attributes. Allah in Arabic is an all encompassing word which has a very strong meaning enshrouding these.

Clarification About: “intimacy with God is not a Muslim idea”.

• This is untrue. Allah says that he is closer to man than his jugular vein. He hears each of his prayers and is always with him. There is a famous unofficial apothegm in Islam - God broke up mercy into 100 parts. Distributed 1 part among all the living creatures on Earth and kept 99 for himself. He has enormous love and mercy for his creation.

The central concept in Islam is that - God is so close to you that you don’t need an intermediary to talk to him for you. He loves you so much that he listens to your call directly.

God has on one side has tremendous mercy and on the other his wrath. He has decreed that his mercy shall overcome his anger. But this doesn’t mean freedom to modify his ways and live according to your whim (just to satisfy your worldly cravings). its His dreadful awe which a Muslim fears (this stops him from doing evil and committing sin) and his love which he cherishes (this makes him hopeful of his mercy thats why there is repentance. You repent directly in front of your God with no intermediary. The connection is one-one, very intimate. There is no hierarchy here. He listens to you and forgives you.

Allah says in the Quraan: O my slaves who have been prodigal to their own hurt; despair not of the mercy of Allah, who forgives all sins, Lo! He is the forgiving, The merciful (Qur’an: 39:53)).

I’ll finish with a popular story in Islam: There was a person who had killed 99 people. When he was about to go from his village to the next to kill the 100th one, he died on the way. The angels took Him to God and started discussing that he would definitely be sent to hell. But God said that they measure the distance from his village to his place of death and to the village he was visiting. The former was shorter. And God forgave all his sins.

But in Islam: If someone kills one human being its like he has killed the entire humanity and if he saves one from dying he has saved the entire humanity from dying. The sin being so grave. A murderer would go to hell. But God is ever forgiving most merciful. If you pray to him with your heart he would definitely forgive your gravest of sins and bring to you his blessings and mercy.

Moses asked this very same question, but he did it in a different context. He asked God for his name, because he was going to speak with Egyptians who believed in many gods. That makes God’s answer very interesting.

He said his name was “Yahweh” (Some early scholars mistakenly interpereted it “Jehovah” because the Jews left all the vowels our of the name so that it would be immpossible to pronounce for fear of violating the commandment not to take the Lord’s name in vain)

“Yahweh” is translated into English as “I Am Who Am” or “I Am Who I Am” or “I Am that I Am” This is interesting because he doesn’t give Moses a name like the Egytians would be expecting. He said “I Am Who Am, I Am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” The Psalms refer to him as “the One True God; the God that made the heavens and the earth”

Fast forward to the time of Jesus. The name “Jesus” means “God saves” in Hebrew. The Gospel of Matthew makes a point to note the relationship between his name (announced by the angel) and his mission on earth.

Christ himself uttered the “Sacred Tetragrammaton” (Yahweh), asserting that he is God himself (see John 8; Mark 14:62). He later made the statement “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6). Note that the word “truth” would have been understood in the classic Greek sense: Objective reality / being / existence. He claimed to be existence itself.

He also instructed us to refer to God as “Abba.” This is the Hebrew word for Father, but it is used in a more intimate sense than “Father” is in English. It would be more accurate to translate it as “daddy.” Christ revealed a famial and familiar way to address God the Father.

It is interesting to note that Islam does not teach that Christ Jesus is the way/truth/life. They refer to him as a profit. Also interesting is the fact that the Quran does assert the Jesus of Nazareth is the only sinless man to ever live. Finally, note that the prophet mohammed never met any Orthodox Christians until shorlty before he died; all the Chirstians that he met in the middle east would have been Nestorian heretics who denied the union of Christ with the Father.

Unfortunatley, I don’t know what the word “Allah” means in Arabic. Sorry.

JEHOVAH (also interpreted as YAHWEH) means ‘The LORD’ in Hebrew and is the most frequently used name for God in the Old Testament. God also gives Himself many other names in the Jewish scriptures, as He has a very complex character and the various names describe different aspects of His character. If you compare that to Islam you will find that Allah is also described by many different names. Many of these describe a similar character, for example both Islam and the Bible describe God as Creator, Sustainer, Lord etc. Some of them are different, for example Christians are told by Jesus to call God ‘Father’ and that intimacy with God is not a Muslim idea.

For Christians, bro_kwame and I were having a discussion about this the other day. He was saying that we shouldn’t call our Lord by the name ‘Jehovah’ any more, because we now know our Lord is JESUS, and that is the name on which we should call. I would agree with him that Jesus is our Lord, but that we don’t forget the ways God has been known throughout history, as they also help us to know about His character.

If I remember rightly, you are looking to convert to Islam. ALLAH is the name for God in Arabic, I believe, so what you said is correct.

I think your mum’s point is that she doesn’t follow the Muslim God (despite his similarities to JEHOVAH), and that she doesn’t accept that ALLAH is just another way of describing her God. I would say she’s correct that Islam and Christianity are not the same. I’m a Christian and I love and worship Jesus. This is not compatible with Islam, which states that Jesus is a prophet not God.

So your mum wants you to stick with what she knows. You want to change to something different. She finds that threatening and is also worried for your soul - I’m sure you both believe that this is about Truth, and that what happens when you die will be determined by what you believe in life. That’s why she believes you’d be ‘doing a really bad thing’ to leave the Christian faith for Islam.

The question I have for you is: Do you want to know God for yourself?

Just blindly accepting what your mother does is not a way to know God for yourself. You seem to be seeking Him in your own way, and that is good. But don’t throw your mother’s Christianity out of the window as you seek. Pray to God and ask Him how He wants you to know Him, is my advice.

it could depend upon the language yehova was the name of god from hebrew the jesus language which cannot be foud now.ALLAH is the word from arabic language the same name when spoken by diffrerent languages can change a litte JESUS ISSA is the same but spoken in different languages. mussa is the same as moses daud is the same as david . so allah and yehova are the name sof the same god

Thanks, flossheal. Sorry for overlooking. I read it quickly :) Sincere apologies

Huge difference: Christians acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior - a person must be saved in order to enter Heaven - in short, THE WAY - Islam views Him as merely a prophet, not THE WAY - the God of the Bible is not the God of the Qu’ran in beliefs/dictates if comparing those two…Hope this helps !!

I don’t look at the answers up there so I just answer your question. Islam’s god name is Allah, ok? because’ Im Moslem. Believe me.

Just came across this. Explains about God in various religions. You can check out the entire repository in the third link.

http://www.biharanjuman.org/Zakir_Naik/Zakir-Naik-concept-of-God-in-major-religions.htm http://www.biharanjuman.org/Deedat/Ahmad-Deedat-Is-Jesus-God-Eric-Bock.htm

http://www.biharanjuman.org/Videos-Islamic.htm

Hope it helps.

YAHWEH, JEHOVAH, I AM that I AM, Hashem, Adoshem, Adonai, El, Elohim, Elyon, Shaddai, Shalom, Shekhinah, Yah, Adir, Adon Olam, Avinu Malkeinu, Boreh, Emet . . . Have I missed any?

thx ‘’motowin’’ you’ve said what is needed to be said,any way I guess that there is misunderstand, ‘’need answer29’’ if you looked at all my previous answers you will notice that I don’t use the word ‘’ALLAH’’, I always say God and thats because ‘’ALLAH’’ is an arabic word for God its only atranslation, in Islam there are a lot of names of God such as: THE MERCIFUL ,THE GREAT, THE CREATOR, THE KING ,THE PEACFUL,THE GIVER,… etc , there are 99 names of God in Islam, so in heprew its Jehvoah , in arabic its ALLAH , in english its God, there is no difference, the point of difference in Islam and Christanity is that christians worship jesus and thats not a different name its adifferent person, good luck dear.

I agree with Amblessed.. I see no reference to Jesus Christ , the chief cornerstone, upon whom Christianity rests.

The Jews also, do not rest upon or trust in, Jesus Christ.

It is a wonderful thing to believe in God, and I would not take from that, in any way, however, as a Christian, my main hope rests in what Christ did on the cross. We have been given the new testament, written in his blood, and I in no way, will turn from that. I respect the right of every Islamic person to worship as they choose, but, I also, reserve the right to stand for what I believe.

If you research the names of God in the Holy Bible, which Christians follow, you will find many names given for him. Each coming as humans understood that particular attribute of his nature.

You are your own person, no one can tell you what or who to believe in. if youy choose to revert to Islam and that a decision that you have made and those around you should respect that.

regarding what Gods real name is, depends on what religion you believe in. If your a Muslim then you will believe Allah (SWT), if yoiur a jehovah’s whitness then you will believe in jehovah Etc.

My God is all of this and more !!

He is the First and Last, The Beginning and the End! He is the keeper of Creation and the Creator of all! He is the Architect of the universe and the Manager of all times. He always was, He always is, and He always will be … Unmoved, Unchanged, Undefeated, and never Undone! He was bruised and brought healing! He was pierced and eased pain! He was persecuted and brought freedom! He was dead and brought life! He is risen and brings power! He reigns and brings Peace! The world can’t understand him, The armies can’t defeat Him, The schools can’t explain Him, And The leaders can’t ignore Him. Herod couldn’t kill Him, The Pharisees couldn’t confuse Him, And The people couldn’t hold Him! Nero couldn’t crush Him, Hitler couldn’t silence Him, The New Age can’t replace Him. He is light, love, longevity, and Lord. He is goodness, Kindness, Gentleness, and God. He is Holy, Righteous, Mighty, powerful, and pure. His ways are right, His word is eternal, His will is unchanging, and His mind is on me. He is my Savior, He is my Guide, and He is my peace! He is my Joy, He is my comfort, He is my Lord, and He rules my life! I serve Him because His bond is love, His burden is light, and His goal for me is abundant life. I follow Him Because H e is the wisdom of the wise, the power of the powerful, the Ancient of days, the ruler of rulers, the leader of leaders, the Overseer of the overcomers, and is to come. And if that seems impressive To you, try this for size. His goal is a relationship with ME! He will Never leave me, Never forsake me, Never mislead me, Never forget me, Never overlook me, And never cancel my appointment in His appointment book! When I fall, He Lifts me up! When I fail, He forgives! When I am weak, He is strong! When I am lost, He is the way! When I am afraid, He is my courage! When I stumble, He steadies me! When I am hurt, He heals me! When I am broken, He mends me! When I am blind, He leads me! When I am hungry, He feeds me! When I face trials, He is with me! When I face persecution, He shields me! When I face problems, He comforts me! When I face loss, He provides for me! When I face Death, He carries me Home! He is everything for everybody everywhere, every time, and every way. He Is God, He is faithful. I am His, and He is mine! My Father in heaven can whip the father of this world. So, if you’re Wondering why I feel so secure, understand this… He said it and that Settles it. God is in control, I am on His side, and that means all is well with my soul. Everyday is a Blessing for GOD Is!

Thanks aarthur001. I am now going to study more about the things you told.

• cheer

You have asked the most important question. And yet, you haven’t received a correct and appropriate answer yet.

Here you go:

http://www.watchtower.org/e/na/index.htm

yes in psalms 83:18 it clearly states that god’s name is jehovah. very simple even though in differnet languages it is spelled and pronounced diff. like Yahweh it means jehovah.

Actually, Islam teaches us that God sent three books, the Bible, the Koran and the Jew’s book as well. All come from the same source. They were presented on earth by three different men.Thats all.

The Jewish God and the Christian Gods are different.c My bet is you are neither Jewish or Christian. . . Both worship the God of Abraham. . Jews under the old law and Christians under the new. If you really study you will find Jesus came to fulfill the law of Moses. Jesus obeyed the law perfectly and freed mankind from it’s bindings while giving us a new perfect law. . . .

Well God has many names, mainly because he is so much in our lives. Like Jehova Jireh means “provider” && etc.

God is Jesus Christ–Christ Jesus is God.

well that makes scence. God must have died and left his company to his son, who is now god.

God’s name is Jesus Christ–Christ Jesus’ name is God.

there is no name that describe god

allah .believe me

likewise, flossheal!

That’s very generous of you, Motowin. It’s been good talking to you!

For an in depth list of who God is, you might want to check out this link:

http://www.characterbuildingforfamilies.com/names.html

Amazing…

Well, I believe that the almighty god’s name is…drumrole… Bob. He sent me a message in my mind telling me that.

Thanks, motowin. Now needanswers29 has an answer from both the Christian and the Muslim point of view.

Just on thing - I agree that Islam refers to intimacy with Allah. My quote is ‘THAT intimacy with Allah’, which refers to the father/child intimacy which Jesus encouraged his followers to have with his Father God. Is that type of intimacy something you experience in Islam?

It’s my understanding that God’s true name in Hebrew is so powerful and so awesome that it can’t be written. That’s why they used the vowels and not the full name. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

I always thought that was probably the coolest idea in the whole Bible as far as the nature of God.