Sentences with phrase «proper names of god»

There are, of course, proper names of God or gods, whether in the polytheistic religions or, as in ancient Israel, where the one omnipotent God, Yahweh, bears a special name because the people is convinced to have had a special experience of him in its history, which characterizes him despite his incomprehensibility and actual namelessness and thus confers a name on him.

It comes to play an overwhelmingly important role in Western Christianity because Jerome, when translating the Bible into Latin, chose «omnipotence» consistently to replace Shaddai, one of the proper names of God in the Hebrew scriptures.

9 Note the distinctions here between Vasudeva, the proper name of a god, and Vasudeva, a family name common among the Vrsni race.

In the biblical language, the word elohim was combined with the proper name of the God of Israel, and later the word theos was used in the same way.

The Septuagint, a product of Hellenistic Jewish scholarship used Pantocrator, chiefly in Job, to translate, or actually to replace, the proper name of God, Shaddai.

It is also significant that the proper name of God, Yahweh, is no longer used, for this has meaning only so long as God appears as a subject among other subjects which must be distinguished from the others by a definite name.

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Nor can we use «God» as the proper name of a unique item in the universe.

That the Lord's Supper is celebrated and his death proclaimed until he returns; that in the name of the triune God baptism is administered and God's justifying Word is preached; that we are the Lord's in life and in death and therefore in our first and in our last failure; that we believe, hope and love — to proclaim and mediate that is the proper function of the Church.

Both these terms» elohim and theos» carried a prior understanding of the reality that was identified by the proper name of the biblical God.

And it is sure to reinforce the growing, salutary conviction that Christians can not be children of their Father in heaven without their older brothers and sisters in the faith, the people of Israel to whom the living God revealed his proper name.

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

Or it has been treated as a description of God as pure Being (as if it were not a proper name but simply equivalent to the «I am» of Exodus 3:14).

The first sign of uniqueness is in the proper name by which the God of Israel was known.

Further, the use of any proper name for God was questionable.

One problem was that, in the Septuagint, «Cosmocrator», ruler of the cosmos, replaced Shaddai, the proper name for God in part of the Pentateuch and in Job.

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

This signifies the word YHWH, the proper name for the God of the Hebrews.

It is probably best to introduce «God» as a logically proper name in terms of a suitable Russellian description, as Bowman Clarke has well noted.2 Descriptions fail of their mark, however, unless postulates or theorems are forthcoming assuring the existence and uniqueness of the entity described.

These names of God are remembered as part of proper names, preceded by Abd (meaning the slave, or servant, of), but often their full meaning as names of God is not recognized.

While I would insist that «God» expresses a concept and is not only a proper name within a certain historical tradition, I believe that Hartshorne pays insufficient attention to the force of that tradition in shaping Anselm's meditation.