( 3.3 ) The Names of God. Since THE TRIUNE GODHEAD is but One GOD & He has no need of a Name to Distinguish Him.

Since

THE TRIUNE GODHEAD

is but One GOD,

&

He has no need of a Name

to Distinguish Him.

…

GOD is GOD

AND

THERE IS NONE ELSE.

…

IN GOD’S REVELATION

TO MANKIND,

OUR ONE AND ONLY

TRUE AND LIVING

CREATOR GOD

GIVES US THESE NAMES

SO THAT WE MAY

LEARN ABOUT

and

KNOW HIM.

…

From all

The Names of God

we learn that God is

The Eternal, Immutable,

and

Almighty Being,

The Being of beings,

Self-Existent, and Self-Sufficient,

and

the Object of Religious Worship

and

Adoration.

…

As we begin to Consider God,
and

The Things of God,
it may be proper
to begin with His Names:
…

The Names of Persons
and things are usually the first
that are known of them;
…
and if these are not known,
it cannot be thought that much,
if any thing,
is known of them;
…
And

so where the Name of God
is not known,
He Himself cannot be known;
…
Therefore
the consideration of God’s Name,
or Names,
is Worthy of Regard,
because

THE NAMES of GOD

Serve to lead us
into some Knowledge of God’s Nature
and Perfections;
…
Exploring

THE NAMES of GOD,

then

is a proper introduction
to such a subject,

as

GOD.

…
Indeed, properly speaking,
since God is Incomprehensible,
He is not nominable;
…
and being but One GOD,
He has no need of a Name
to Distinguish Him;
…
and therefore Plato12 says,
He has no Name;
and

hence Plato commonly calls God
το ον, “Ens”,
“The Being”.
…
So when Moses asked the Lord,
what he should say
to the children of Israel,
should they ask the Name of Him
that Sent Moses to them,
God Told Moses to say,
…

“I Am

that

I Am”;

…
that is,
The Eternal Being,
…

The Being of beings;
…

which His Name Jehovah
is expressive of:
…
nevertheless,
there are Names of God
in the Scriptures
taken from one
or other of GOD’S Attributes,
which are worthy of consideration.
…
The names of God,
as Zanchy13 observes,
some of them respect Him
as the Subject,
as Jehovah, Lord, God:
…
others are predicates,
what are Spoken of Him,
or Attributed to Him,
as Holy, Just, Good, etc.
…
Some Respect the Relation
the Divine Persons in the Godhead
Stand in to Each Other,
…

as

Father,
Son,
and

Spirit:
…

Others the Relation of God
to the Creatures;
…
and

which are properly said of Him,
and
not them,

as Creator, Preserver,

Governor, etc.

…
Some are common
to the Three Divine Persons,
as
Jehovah, God, Father, Spirit;
…
and

some Peculiar to Each,
as the epithets of Unbegotten,
Begotten,
Proceeding from the Father
and the Son:
…
Some are figurative
and metaphorical,
taken from Creatures,
to whom God is Compared;
…
and others are Proper Names,
by which GOD either Calls Himself,
or is Called by the Prophets
and Apostles,
in the books of the Old
and New Testament;
…
Adapted from

Doctrinal Divinity~Book 1

Of the Names of God

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