Multicolored pills
with sacred names like OxyContin and Dilaudid tumble out of vials to be gulped by the fistful.
Major newspapers have begun to put the phrase «religious freedom» in scare quotes, as if everybody understands that it is just a cover for bigotry abusing
the sacred name of liberty.
This is why taking the Lord's name in vain is so serious: It involves invoking
the sacred name of God and trivializing it to the level of a common filth word.
Unlike
the sacred name represented by «Lord,» none of these are pure proper names, but flow out of Jesus» pious Jewish avoidance of uttering the name.
This is
the sacred name of the God of Israel, usually known as the tetragrammaton («the four letters»).
The revelation of
the sacred name in Exodus 3:15 has been misconstrued, for instance, as God's refusal to be named, an indication of the ultimate unnameability of God, rather than God's act of naming himself.
The «theological pattern» centers on the God of Israel,
his sacred name, and the many ways of not uttering it aloud.
What is more sacrilegious is when they address Jesus with
the sacred Name.
They erased the first letter of
the sacred name from its forehead, and it died.
Can't think of another Jesus whose name was so Holy that it was abbreviated with a special abbreviation known as a nomen sacrum, or
sacred name.
Now it may well be, as a matter of fact, that God was worshiped in the south (J's provenance) by the name Yahweh long before the Moses - Joshua group entered Canaan bringing with
them the sacred name which only then became normative in the north.
As far as anyone knows, out of all the Jesuses back then, only the name of one of the was so holy as to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or
sacred name.
In the earliest manuscripts words were not separated and «
sacred names» were abbreviated.
«Rabodonampoinimerina (that is
the sacred name of the queen) is our God and not yours.»
Once it became alright to name your child using one of
these sacred names the fashion for «Caly» died out and along with it the use of such lovely names as Calybrid.
Before this time it was considered unacceptable to use
a sacred name, such as that of a saint, for your child so using Caly, or «servant of» in front of the name made it okay.
Miss Dior, Diorama, Diorissimo which were created during Dior's life, have in their names
the sacred name «DIOR»...
Did the early Christian believers use the Tetragrammaton,
the sacred name of God?