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Love For All, Hatred For None

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I respectfully disagree, But... you already know that.

I would be interested to know how Love can not contain justice? Please explain further, or are you offering a different frame of reference, if so please explain?

My thought would be justice can only be maintained and served by Law and at times the law must constrain actions against anothers free will. Any change must come about by free will and Law should also contain education based corrective actions.

If we do not have law, then we have anarchy.

Regards Tony
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
I would be interested to know how Love can not contain justice? Please explain further, or are you offering a different frame of reference, if so please explain?

My thought would be justice can only be maintained and served by Law and at times the law must constrain actions against anothers free will. Any change must come about by free will and Law should also contain education based corrective actions.

If we do not have law, then we have anarchy.

Regards Tony
It's a toughie. I don't want to go too deeply off topic. But, I think the key to this is:

If you notice, in this reply and the last:

Hatred is no longer being discussed. Now the words used are: "Law and Justice".
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
What is hatred?

From my point of view:

Hatred is taking action or the desire to take action to change some one or some thing against their will. Hatred is like a closed fist swung in anger.

What is love?

From my point of view:

Love is taking action or the desire to take action to nurture some one or some thing in harmony with their will. Love is like an open hand offering assistance.

( generally speaking )
Most certainly it's in action, not in words. If someone declares they treat everyone equally, then go out and treat people differently by gender, sexual orientation, race, etc, then actions don't match with words and we have hypocrisy.
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
It's a toughie. I don't want to go too deeply off topic. But, I think the key to this is:

If you notice, in this reply and the last:

Hatred is no longer being discussed. Now the words used are: "Law and Justice".


Law and justice can be filled with hate. Countries that have laws that allow capital punishment for gays are an extreme example.
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
Most certainly it's in action, not in words. If someone declares they treat everyone equally, then go out and treat people differently by gender, sexual orientation, race, etc, then actions don't match with words and we have hypocrisy.
Yes I agree... 100%.

The distinction is: I was speaking about desire. You are speaking about words.
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
Law and justice can be filled with hate. Countries that have laws that allow capital punishment for gays are an extreme example.
A perfect example demonstrating why a discussion about love / hate is much much different than a discussion about law / justice .
 

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
A perfect example demonstrating why a discussion about love / hate is much much different than a discussion about law / justice .

Yes we differ, I see that Love and Justice go hand in hand.

The most loving king (Queen, Ruler) is also the most just king (Queen,Ruler).

Negative hate has no place, hate of injustice, can be used in a positive way.

Regards Tony
 

usfan

Well-Known Member
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all JUST get along? ~Rodney King

For every peacenik, there are dozens of aggressors, ready to exploit him.. :shrug:
 

usfan

Well-Known Member
Yes we differ, I see that Love and Justice go hand in hand.
The most loving king (Queen, Ruler) is also the most just king (Queen,Ruler).
Negative hate has no place, hate of injustice, can be used in a positive way.
Regards Tony
If you want peace, work for justice. ~Pope Paul VI
 

Deeje

Avid Bible Student
Premium Member
So far, forgive me, I think that Buddhism does the best job at living up to: "love for all, hatred for none." But I think most religious systems have the components necessary to achieve this.

It's when the chips are down that people's true colors emerge.
It's usually when religion and state get muddled in the minds of men....that the human emotional element always seems to blur the line. Myanmar is a classic example. :(
Buddhism and violence - Wikipedia

I also think that people of non-belief live up to this too. I have met a few Atheists here on RF and many many non-believers in real life who hate none. They are role models for me.

Indeed, there are many very good humanitarians in the world. But Christians are also encouraged to be good humanitarians....it's why we are to exhibit this quality that is important.
The first requirement of a Christian is to love God with every fibre of our being and then to love our neighbor as ourselves.

If we don't fulfill the first requirement then we are not good Christians, just good humanitarians.....but is that what God requires? The first command naturally results in us complying with the second. It's about motivation as much as it is just being a good person.
As much as Christians need to be "good people"...that is not what results in salvation. We have to genuinely love God first. Most people who identify as "Christians" don't do that. They have a surface knowledge of things and basically accept everything the church teaches them without question. Ignorance is never a good foundation for anything important. Unless we really "know" God, we cannot truly love him. (John 17:3)

I don't fault you for your beliefs that Christ is the only way. I find great value in your conviction to maintain the accuracy of the texts. But I cannot ignore how I feel in my heart that everyone is working together, building a bridge into the future.

Would it surprise you to know that this is indeed the vision of the new world. It appears as if you believe that man can accomplish this on his own......but please consult his track record and see that the Creator has given humankind ample time to show that he is capable of managing his own affairs....but here we are, with thousands of years of failed human rulership, seeing leaders of powerful nations again talking of war....even a nuclear exchange. How much time do we need to figure it out? Humans are not designed to exercise power over other humans....it totally corrupts them.

The Bible says that God will step in and rectify the situation by bringing his own rulership back to mankind....not by their choice, but by his positive action to bring an end to the squabbling and hatreds that are as rife today as they ever were. (Daniel 2:44) The only thing standing in the way of world peace is us, thinking that we don't need God's guidance or instruction. It's the definition of insanity....why do we keep expecting a different outcome, when our thinking doesn't change?

Mankind rejected God's sovereignty over them in the beginning in favor of making their own decisions about what is good and what is evil....
It was never going to be a permanent arrangement, but God allowed humans to see where their own decisions would lead them...and here we are.

God's Kingdom will come, and his will has to be done on earth if we are ever going to see the peace and security that most of us long for. It is no coincidence that we have a collective desire for that cohesion that results in true brotherhood, working together, shoulder to shoulder to make this earth into the paradise that God intended it to be all along.


Nice sentiments......but it is God who builds the bridge, not men. Humans do not have the materials needed. Their will is weak and good intentions can be altered on a whim of ego. We have already proven that we are hopeless without our Maker guiding our steps.....haven't we?

Do we just need more time? Really?
 

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
If you want peace, work for justice. ~Pope Paul VI

Then we see that Justice needs to be defined and agreed upon.

We then need to consider if it is God that is the Most Great Source of love and thus likewise, the Most Great Source of justice.

Regards Tony
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Religious folk may never agree on what justice is. It's such a volatile term. In some faiths it's far less important, not talked about much.
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
If you want peace, work for justice. ~Pope Paul VI
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
@Deeje ,

I very much appreciate your reply. I do not know what is needed. I do not know anything.

I feel like God is guiding us and that nothing is outside of God's dominion.
 

Deeje

Avid Bible Student
Premium Member
Christ has many sheep. Christ Love covers all humanity.

Yes, Christ died for all of them, yet not all will benefit from his sacrifice. Life was always conditional, right from the beginning....it depended on obedience to God's commands.....it always has.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-9...
"This takes into account that it is righteous on God’s part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for you. 7 But you who suffer tribulation will be given relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8 in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance on those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. 9 These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength".

Those who do not know God (because they don't want to) and do not obey the teachings of his son (because they don't like them) will not benefit from the ransom paid by Jesus Christ. "Everlasting destruction" awaits those who treat the Creator and his laws with contempt.
A ransom is the price paid to free a captive.....but only those who acknowledge the captivity actually want freedom. Those who don't see that they are captives have no desire to be free....they already think they are.

When Jesus said he will separate the "sheep from the goats", he made a clear distinction between only two categories of people.....we are all either in one camp or the other....there is no fence to sit on between those two.

Jesus consigns the sheep to life and the goats to death. It is important to understand which category we are in from God's perspective...not just our own. Apparently there will be "many" who think that they are "sheep", but Jesus considers them "goats". (Matthew 7:21-23) There is a reason for the judgment to come and the final result will be just as Jehovah purposed it. (Isaiah 55:11)

False worship could be thinking one has a faith surperior to others. We are all in this life to help each other, as Christ has many names.

Its not a case of being "superior" or even "right"....its a case of searching for the truth and when we do, helping others find it by sharing the good news about God's Kingdom.
God is the one who sees to it that the sheep hear the voice of his appointed shepherd. (John 6:65)

The names that Jesus is given all reflect the roles he is assigned in the outworking of Jehovah's purpose.
The angel’s instructions to Mary (“you are to call his name Jesus”) and Isaiah’s prophecy (“she will certainly call his name Immanuel”), are examples of the meaning of names being more important that the name itself.
It must be remembered that Messiah was also to be called by other names as well. (Luke 1:31; Isaiah 7:14)
For example, Isaiah 9:6 said concerning this one: “His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” Yet none of these names were given to Mary’s firstborn as personal names, neither when he was a baby nor after he took up his ministry. Rather, they were all prophetic title-names by which Messiah would be identified. Jesus lived up to the meaning of these names in every respect, and that is the sense in which they were prophetically given, to show his qualities and the roles he would play toward all those accepting him as Messiah. So also with his title Immanuel. He measured up to and fulfilled its meaning.

Philippians 2:5-11
"Keep this mental attitude in you that was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although he was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God. 7 No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form and became human. 8 More than that, when he came as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, yes, death on a torture stake. 9 For this very reason, God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name, 10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend—of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground— 11 and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father."

There is so much in those few verses. Because of carrying out his mission flawlessly, Jesus was given a new name...one that was above all others. But it is noted that Jesus fulfilled his mission to glorify his Father...not himself.

It is the Glory of God, the Father, that makes all those Names One and allows us to have 'Love for all and hatred for none'

Yes, we are not to hate anyone but to treat all as potential brethren. It doesn't mean that we are free to believe whatever we wish, if it falls outside of what Christ taught.....false ideas were to be rejected along with the person promoting them.

2 John 9-11...
"Everyone who pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God. The one who does remain in this teaching is the one who has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. 11 For the one who says a greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works."

So unless our beliefs are firmly founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, we have no share in the kingdom to come because we accepted lies as truth.

The Apostle Paul's warning is there for all of us....
"But the lawless one’s presence is by the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and wonders 10 and every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth in order that they might be saved. 11 That is why God lets a deluding influence mislead them so that they may come to believe the lie, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness." ( 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)

Its not about humans bringing humanity together....because of what drove us apart. Unless we all believe the same things, worship the same God and adhere to the teachings of his son, there can be no harmony or agreement or peace between the different religions of mankind. (1 Corinthians 1:10) Unity is the mark of God's true worshippers.....not division. There is nothing in the Bible to even hint that adopting the beliefs and practices of false worship is remotely acceptable. We cant mix it all up as if the truth doesn't matter, because we personally have to choose what is acceptable to God, not just to ourselves.

That is the way I see it.
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
Trailblazer said: There is no such thing as "the God of the Bible." There is only One God, the God of all the religions, the God who sent all the Prophets. The spiritual teachings of all the Prophets are the same as the teachings of Jesus. They are renewed in every age.

Deeje said: Then this God of yours speaks with a forked tongue....deliberately confusing people with teachings that contradict those who you claim are his own messengers in another age. Is he just capricious?
There is nothing confusing if you read and adhere to the religious teachings of ever age during that age, as God intended us to do. The confusion happens when people cling to teachings of past dispensations that were not intended to apply to future dispensations.

What, do you think God's hands are tied from revealing any more truth after the Bible? that would have to be a really wimpy God. :rolleyes: Besides that it would be a really uncaring and unloving God who would leave humanity alone with no guidance for over 2000 years.

I know all about the verses in the OT and the NT that say you cannot add to the scriptures... The misconception that Jews and Christians have is that the Qur'an and the Writings of Baha'u'llah are additions, when in fact they are "new" Revelations from God.... No scriptures should ever be added to after they have been completed. The Baha'i Faith is not "another Gospel." There is only one Gospel, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Yahweh tells us who he is. He has one name, not many. He has one Christ, his "only begotten son"......Jesus Christ lived and died once...not twice.
Why should it matter what name God has? God is God by whatever name we refer to Him... Allah is just as much God as is Yahweh, just as I am still the same Trailblazer even if I change my name. ;)
God does not have a biological son because God cannot have offspring. Jesus was the Son in the sense that He was born of the substance of God, but not in a physical sense, in a spiritual sense.
Yes, Jesus lived once and died once.
How on earth can you squeeze all those beliefs into one religion when the God of the Bible never did?
When God revealed the Bible those beliefs did not exist yet, not in the human time zone, so why would they be in the Bible? o_O God of course knew they would be revealed later because God is All-Knowing so God has foreknowledge.
You have to ignore so much of what the Bible teaches to even remotely accept what Baha'i's believe.
The Bible teaches that there was one Messiah, who came through Jacob and Isaac...Jesus said that the Jews were God's people, not the Muslims who did not even exist until 600 years after Christ founded Christianity.
Again, why wouldn't the Bible teach about Jesus, it was scripture that applied to the Dispensation of Jesus, and the Old Testament was about Moses and other Prophets who came before Jesus. The Bible prophesies Muhammad, the Bab and Baha'u'llah but it is not about them.... They have their own scriptures.
Allah is not Yahweh.
Who do you think He is then, a figment of the Muslim's imagination? o_O
Jesus Christ died once, and he was never to return in the flesh, having sacrificed his perfect body, once for all time for the sins of mankind.
I fully agree with that, Jesus sacrificed Himself for our sins and then His work was done... Now go tell the Christians who believe that Jesus in the same body is going to drop down out of the sky, with trumpets and angels and do more work.

John 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

There is no universal religion that is all things to everyone. The various religious systems are not even remotely compatible with each other. They teach completely different doctrines and worship different gods.
The different religions do teach different doctrines because those doctrines are man-made, not from God. They also have different teachings, because different social teachings are needed in every new age. But the spiritual teachings of all the great religions are essentially the same and they are renewed in every new age when a new religion is revealed. The essence of religion is the spiritual teachings and the spiritual teachings of all religions are compatible since they are the same.
I simply cannot understand how your religion can claim to respect the teachings of Jesus Christ when you apparently just pick and choose what suits you and ignore the rest. Do you have to ignore a lot of what other religions teach too? What is the point?
What is it that Jesus actually taught that you think we ignore? o_O I do not know of anything.
 

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Yes, Christ died for all of them, yet not all will benefit from his sacrifice. Life was always conditional, right from the beginning....it depended on obedience to God's commands.....it always has.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-9...
"This takes into account that it is righteous on God’s part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for you. 7 But you who suffer tribulation will be given relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8 in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance on those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. 9 These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength".

Those who do not know God (because they don't want to) and do not obey the teachings of his son (because they don't like them) will not benefit from the ransom paid by Jesus Christ. "Everlasting destruction" awaits those who treat the Creator and his laws with contempt.
A ransom is the price paid to free a captive.....but only those who acknowledge the captivity actually want freedom. Those who don't see that they are captives have no desire to be free....they already think they are.

When Jesus said he will separate the "sheep from the goats", he made a clear distinction between only two categories of people.....we are all either in one camp or the other....there is no fence to sit on between those two.

Jesus consigns the sheep to life and the goats to death. It is important to understand which category we are in from God's perspective...not just our own. Apparently there will be "many" who think that they are "sheep", but Jesus considers them "goats". (Matthew 7:21-23) There is a reason for the judgment to come and the final result will be just as Jehovah purposed it. (Isaiah 55:11)



Its not a case of being "superior" or even "right"....its a case of searching for the truth and when we do, helping others find it by sharing the good news about God's Kingdom.
God is the one who sees to it that the sheep hear the voice of his appointed shepherd. (John 6:65)

The names that Jesus is given all reflect the roles he is assigned in the outworking of Jehovah's purpose.
The angel’s instructions to Mary (“you are to call his name Jesus”) and Isaiah’s prophecy (“she will certainly call his name Immanuel”), are examples of the meaning of names being more important that the name itself.
It must be remembered that Messiah was also to be called by other names as well. (Luke 1:31; Isaiah 7:14)
For example, Isaiah 9:6 said concerning this one: “His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” Yet none of these names were given to Mary’s firstborn as personal names, neither when he was a baby nor after he took up his ministry. Rather, they were all prophetic title-names by which Messiah would be identified. Jesus lived up to the meaning of these names in every respect, and that is the sense in which they were prophetically given, to show his qualities and the roles he would play toward all those accepting him as Messiah. So also with his title Immanuel. He measured up to and fulfilled its meaning.

Philippians 2:5-11
"Keep this mental attitude in you that was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although he was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God. 7 No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form and became human. 8 More than that, when he came as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, yes, death on a torture stake. 9 For this very reason, God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name, 10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend—of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground— 11 and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father."

There is so much in those few verses. Because of carrying out his mission flawlessly, Jesus was given a new name...one that was above all others. But it is noted that Jesus fulfilled his mission to glorify his Father...not himself.



Yes, we are not to hate anyone but to treat all as potential brethren. It doesn't mean that we are free to believe whatever we wish, if it falls outside of what Christ taught.....false ideas were to be rejected along with the person promoting them.

2 John 9-11...
"Everyone who pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God. The one who does remain in this teaching is the one who has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. 11 For the one who says a greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works."

So unless our beliefs are firmly founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, we have no share in the kingdom to come because we accepted lies as truth.

The Apostle Paul's warning is there for all of us....
"But the lawless one’s presence is by the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and wonders 10 and every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth in order that they might be saved. 11 That is why God lets a deluding influence mislead them so that they may come to believe the lie, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness." ( 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)

Its not about humans bringing humanity together....because of what drove us apart. Unless we all believe the same things, worship the same God and adhere to the teachings of his son, there can be no harmony or agreement or peace between the different religions of mankind. (1 Corinthians 1:10) Unity is the mark of God's true worshippers.....not division. There is nothing in the Bible to even hint that adopting the beliefs and practices of false worship is remotely acceptable. We cant mix it all up as if the truth doesn't matter, because we personally have to choose what is acceptable to God, not just to ourselves.

That is the way I see it.

Now one has to consider if it is applicable to themselves.

Regards Tony
 

Deeje

Avid Bible Student
Premium Member
There is nothing confusing if you read and adhere to the religious teachings of ever age during that age, as God intended us to do.

How do you know that? Why would God confuse us with each religious teaching in one age that contradicted the last? This to me, is nonsense. He punished his people for adopting false religious teachings and practices. He warned them not to adopt the foul spiritistic and immoral practices of the Canaanites, but they did not listen. Their worship became unacceptable to their God because of it.

The confusion happens when people cling to teachings of past dispensations that were not intended to apply to future dispensations.

Since there is no mention of future dispensations, I would like to know how its not confusing to have a rabble of different religions all crammed into a one size fits all belief system? The God of the Bible never borrowed ideas or practices from religions outside of the one he prescribed....it was humans who did that. It corrupted his truth and he was not happy about it. There can only be one truth. All roads do not lead to Rome.

What, do you think God's hands are tied from revealing any more truth after the Bible? that would have to be a really wimpy God. :rolleyes: Besides that it would be a really uncaring and unloving God who would leave humanity alone with no guidance for over 2000 years.

If that is what you think then you have no idea what God has been doing all this time. He has one instruction manual and one "Christ" who lived and died just once, not twice. If you think Christ was to come again in the flesh, and then die from some disease, then I am not sure what kind of Christ you imagine Jesus to be?

If you know about Jesus' parables, then you would also know that "weeds" of false Christianity were to be sown by the devil after the death of Jesus and his apostles. These "weeds" were to grow along with the "wheat", in the same field (the world) right up until the end of the current system of things. It was then that a final separation was to be made and God would send his angels to gather the weeds up and dispose of them permanently. Only then would the genuine wheat be gathered. (Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43)

The last 2,000 years have been used to evaluate humankind as to their faith and loyalty to the teachings of Jesus Christ. They have for the most part, failed miserably. The 'weeds' of Christendom all but choked the 'wheat' out of existence, and invaded the world as only weeds can.

I know all about the verses in the OT and the NT that say you cannot add to the scriptures... The misconception that Jews and Christians have is that the Qur'an and the Writings of Baha'u'llah are additions, when in fact they are "new" Revelations from God.... No scriptures should ever be added to after they have been completed. The Baha'i Faith is not "another Gospel." There is only one Gospel, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ummmm....who said?
You sure do put a lot of faith in a man who made claims that he could never back up.
The Christ of the first century had impeccable credentials.....and he fulfilled hundreds of prophesies about his lineage, his place of birth and the manner of his death. Baha'u'llah had nothing in the Hebrew scriptures to indicate that another "Christ" was even necessary, let alone had other 'scripture" to write.

Where is it written that Ishmael or Islam would have anything to do with the second coming of the Christ?
Baha'u'llah has no credentials....nothing to identify him as one that was expected to come. The Bible completely contradicts his claims because as it says in John 17:11 that you quoted..." And now I am no more in the world".....In a little while the world will see me no more'. (John 14:19)

Christ was never coming back in the flesh. When mankind was to see Jesus again it was to be at the end of this age, with an angelic army to exact vengeance on those who misrepresented his God and led the majority of people down the wrong track. (Matthew 7:13-14) The trouble is, they went willingly.

Why should it matter what name God has? God is God by whatever name we refer to Him... Allah is just as much God as is Yahweh, just as I am still the same Trailblazer even if I change my name. ;)

Exodus 3:13-15 from the Tanach....
"And Moses said to God, "Behold I come to the children of Israel, and I say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?"

14 God said to Moses, "Ehyeh asher ehyeh (I will be what I will be)," and He said, "So shall you say to the children of Israel, 'Ehyeh (I will be) has sent me to you.'"

15 And God said further to Moses, "So shall you say to the children of Israel, 'The Lord God of your forefathers, [ יְהֹוָ֞ה Yahweh ] 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 should be mentioned in every generation."


God has one name that is his alone....forever. He has no need to change his unique name. If you have to ask "Why should it matter what name God has?" then you clearly have no idea of its importance. Allah is not Yahweh.
 
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