Sentences with phrase «sacred name of the god»

This is the sacred name of the God of Israel, usually known as the tetragrammaton («the four letters»).

Did the early Christian believers use the Tetragrammaton, the sacred name of God?

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For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

If that is so, then our nation must be seen by the worshipers of Yahweh not as any more sacred, any more holy, or any more righteous than any other nation or people, and our propaganda that would try to convince us otherwise must be countered in the name of the oneness of God.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

You slowly yet ultimately turn all of your attention to the things in other people that you're certain really tick God off, and you make it your sacred business to modify their behavior in the name of Jesus.

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

The Church of the Holy Communion has come to understand itself as «the sacred center» of Memphis, where God's presence is palpable, where people serve in Jesus» name and where spiritual growth is a communal hope.

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.

The incarnation is only truly and actually real if it effects the death of the original sacred, the death of God himself... What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the sacred in the contingency of a particular moment of time: in this name the sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history [The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), pp. 54, 57].

Additionally, they made the choice to use the name of their god in their sacred language say the belief is a myth.

According to a medieval legend the Rabbi of Prague once molded a statue of clay and brought it to life by placing the sacred and unspoken name of Almighty God on its forehead.

This was a violation of something very sacred in the minds of the people; so it is little to be wondered at that soon after his own early death a reaction against the reform developed, and that finally his own name and the name of the god Aton, whose name he had incorporated in his own when he had it changed from Amen - hotep to Akhnaton, were likewise erased from public monuments.

A faith that names Jesus either as the Son of God or as the prophet of God must be a backward movement to a disincarnate and primordial form of Spirit, a movement annulling the events of the Incarnation and the Crucifixion by resurrecting Jesus either in the form of the exalted Lord or as the proclaimer of an already distant and alien majesty of God: hence an orthodox and priestly Christianity is inevitably grounded in the sacred authority and power of the past.

When the name of their tribal god became so sacred that they refrained from saying it aloud, they substituted the equivalent of our word «Lord».

We had enslaved ourselves to an endless cycle of sacred violence and the spilling of blood in God's 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.

The probable pronunciation is Yahweh, although in Israelite - Jewish tradition this specific and particular name of God was commonly deemed too sacred to be pronounced.

The: sacred mountain, «the mountain of God,» is called Horeb, a name used less than twenty times in the Old Testament, but it is called Sinai — quite apparently the same mountain — about forty times.

The Hebrew people, in their incredible insight and genius in understanding human life, seemed to understand this, and so into their most sacred Ten Words from God they have enjoined us in the name of God to rise above the inner conflicts and give honor to those who have given us the gift of life.

«Rabodonampoinimerina (that is the sacred name of the queen) is our God and not yours.»

The Huichol Indians of the past considered the mountain to be sacred and went there to make offers to their gods — their clay figurines (the monos that give the mountain its somewhat misleading name, since this is also the Spanish word for monkey) dot the slopes, along with mystical petroglyphs.