No one pre-dates the true God, Jehovah.
How
do you know what his name is? Did you read nothing I wrote about it?
Genesis takes us back to creation and the history of mankind from the beginning. The fact that is was not committed to writing until some 1500 years befor the birth of Christ does not discount its authenticity. God gave that history to his people, who did not exist as a nation until their release from Egypt, under the leadership of Moses, who was privileged to provide that information, which could only have come from God.
Yeah, ok. That's about all I can say to that because geology, archaeology, paleontology and anthropology would vehemently and provably disagree with you.
If you view life from the perspective of the Creator, rather than from a limited human standpoint, you will understand why he could eliminate whole cities whose inhabitants were incorrigibly wicked. Abraham's conversation with God over the inhabitants of Sodom was revealing. (Genesis 18:20-33) What God sees is not what man sees.
No excuse or justification
whatsoever. That picture of a murderous, vengeful, petty, warlike God was painted by desert nomads for control purposes. No enlightened Christian in this modern day believes that is literal, or believes that is God. Or rather, they
shouldn't. That is not the God Jesus spoke of. That is not the God of the New Testament. In fact, I think the Bible speaks of two different Gods... the murderous, vengeful, petty, warlike God that was a deity of the Semitic pantheon, co-opted by the early Hebrews. Who actually weren't "Hebrew" at all. They were Sumerians. "Ur of the Chaldees" was a Sumerian city, and Abra(ha)m was a Sumerian who worshiped the Sumerian gods. All right in the archaeology.
You missed that one little word...."until". The Law was to stay in force "until" Jesus had completed his mission. His death ended the Law. (Romans 10:4; Romans 6:14)
Jesus introduced a "new covenant" on the night before his death and affirmed that the new arrangement would also have a simplified set of laws.
No, no, no, non, nuh uh, nyet, nein, ohi, eeay, You're suggesting he contradicted, reversed himself from Matthew 5:18-19. Can't he make up his mind? His work included returning to establish his kingdom. I ain't see no coronation procession yet. Btw, Paul is not a credible source... he usurped Peter's primacy, and started teaching things Jesus never said, and I dare say never meant to say. Tl;dr.. Paul put ****-talk in Jesus's mouth. And the people then and today gobbled it up. Why does Jesus need a mouthpiece when what he said was recorded?
Matthew 22:35-40....
"And one of them, versed in the Law, tested him by asking: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 He said to him: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 The second, like it, is this: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets.”
He never used the name Jehovah. He never used any name for God. Every Bible translation I've ever seen, and I've seen plenty, uses the phrase “‘... love the
Lord your God ... ".
When was the last time you saw Jews stoning their children?
Maybe their children are so well-behaved it's a moot point.
See, that's the thing... Jews (and our Jewish friends here correct me if I'm wrong) don't use the Tanakh when it's convenient. It's funny how Christians pass themselves off as knowing more about it than Jews do!
Gentiles are not under the Mosaic Law and never were. (Romans 2:14-16)
But Lev. 18:22 is intact. I see! Cherry-picking at its finest.
Since there is only one true God and one fake one, any god who has a name that is different from Jehovah (Yahweh) is not the true God. It matters greatly what you call him. He answers to no other name....satan answers to all of them.
"Allah" is the Arabic version of "Lord"....that ambiguous title given to the many nameless gods.
So Muslims worship a fake God? Oy vey, the fat's in the fire now!
Or is it that they're worshiping "Jehovah" but calling him by the wrong name? Is God that passive -aggressive that he won't answer to any name other than Jehovah?
Can you see how silly that all looks?
Not true. According to the Tanach, God has never been called "I Am". His name YHWH means "I Will Be What I Will Be" which is not a statement of his existence, but a confirmation that he will BE whatever he needs to be in order to accomplish his will.
From my readings, it's a matter of interpreting the tense of the verb "to be". We can say in English "That would/will be me" and we do say it. It still means "that's me" (that is I" or "it is I" are grammatically correct but a little pretentious and stuffy even for me).
So yeah,
"And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you." Exodus 3:14
But that's just grammatical bickering, because it doesn't change that he is self-existing.
Jesus rightly called his Father what any son calls his father. The term "Abba" means "papa"...an intimate term of endearment. But he said he had come to make his Father's name known. (John 17:25-26)
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[a] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” John 17:25-26
'Scuse me, I didn't catch your name?
Exodus 3:15....Moses was told.....
“This is what you are to say to the Israelites, ‘Jehovah the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation."
Peter, quoting Joel 2:32, told his fellow Jews “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” (Acts 2:21) The Tanach has God's name in the Hebrew text.
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,[a] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is my name forever,
the name you shall call me
from generation to generation.
Footnotes:
- Exodus 3:15 The Hebrew for Lord sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for I am in verse 14.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3:15&version=NIV
Unless you 'call on the name of Jehovah' in faith (i.e. Not just using his name as some kind of formality, but in genuine worship directed at "the only true God" as Jesus acknowledged in John 17:3) there will be no salvation. No other God can save us from what is coming.
That is how I see it, according to what the Bible teaches.
- Well, the basic issue is I don't need salvation. No one does.
- You still haven't given any credible basis for the name Jehovah. I'm sorry, it just ain't there. However, it's probably more likely to be yehovah or yehovih. To the best of my knowledge Hebrew has no 'J' "dzh" phoneme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah#Vowel_points_of_יְהֹוָה_and_אֲדֹנָי
Hair-splitting? Yeah, maybe. But the point as I see it is that the name you use for God is no less fake or false than the fake one you say I use for my "fake God".
So maybe you should just stop telling people that their interpretation of God and his name(s) are wrong and only yours is right? I think that's a good idea.