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_________________________________________________________________________________ On the NAME of the ONE GOD (October 1, 2009) Here is something about the nature of "The One God" that students and scholars of the Words of God, including the modern Jewish Bible commentators, may have missed. Pious Jews believe that the Name of "The One God" is "God." In most of their publications, they write God as "G-d" for fear of pronouncing it. But "God" is not the Name of God. Neither is/was YHWH, Yahweh, or Jehovah, or "I am who I am" or Trinity. God allows us the use of such names to identify Him from all other names, BUT THAT IS NOT HIS NAME. The one inviolable nature of God is: The "One True God" in His "Oneness" is UN-SEEABLE, UN-KNOWABLE, AND UN-NAMEABLE by HIS creations, angelic and human. For His creations to see, or know, or name Him is for that creature to become equal, if not above, "The One True God." Recall the meaning of the naming of the animals by Adam. Christian churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, declare the TRINITY as the deepest and greatest mystery of our Faith. As I stated in my post on "On the Trinity," it is not. The greatest, deepest, unfathomable mystery of True Christianity is the very "ONE TRUE GOD" Himself. The TRINITY explains the "One True God" to us through His workings in spirit, in man, and in history. The Trinity allows us to accept as truth that: "The Father is greater than the Son" or that "Blasphemy against the Son is forgivable here and in the hereafter but never forgivable against the Holy Spirit" without leading us to conclude that One Person in the Godhead is "more God" or "less God" than the other two. If prophets/founders/pastors/theologians/etc. of the various church denominations use the "one inviolable nature" of the One God as the foundation of their Theology, there will be no Oneness or Unitarian "Christian" churches. There wiill be no witnesses of Jehovah or Yahweh. We all will be Trinitarian in our understanding of the One God, and Unitarian in our worship of the One NAME God has given us - JESUS! There is one and only One NAME that God has given mankind for his salvation, and that is the neme of JESUS. Thus, BIBLICAL-CHRISTIAN TRUTHS DEMAND OUR UNITY "IN THE ONENESS OF THE GODHEAD, HIS TRINITARIAN REVELATION OF HIMSELF IN HIS WORKINGS IN SPIRIT, IN MANKIND, AND IN HISTORY AS TRINITY - FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT (Matthew 28:17-19) - AND IN "ONE LORD, ONE SAVIOR, ONE NAME - WHO IS JESUS, THE CHRIST." AMEN! Isabelo S. Alcordo, Ph.D. In Service to the "Lay People of God" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||