Post by Malcolm on Jul 24, 2013 18:03:31 GMT -5
Hosea 2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
Nehemiah 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Exodus: 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Some names have been removed from the KJV such as 'Elohim' which has been translated as 'Almighty or simply 'God'.
There were many more names for God which have been entirely forgotten by today's bible scholars.
Origen:
"For we too, desired both to learn and set forth these things in order that sorcerers might not, under pretext of knowing more than we, delude those who are easily carried away by the glitter of names. And I could have given many more illustrations to show that we are acquainted with the opinions of these deluders, and that we disown them, as being alien to ours, and impious, and not in harmony with the doctrines of true Christians, of which we are ready to make confession even to the death. It must be noticed, too, that those who have drawn up this array of fictions, have, from neither understanding magic, nor discriminating the meaning of the holy scripture, thrown everything into confusion; seeing that they have borrowed from magic the names of IALDABAOTH, and ASTAPHAEUS and HORAEUS, and from the Hebrew scriptures him who is termed in Hebrew IAO or JAH, and SABAOTH, and ADONAEUS, and ELOAEUS.
Now the names taken from the Scriptures are names of one and the same God; which not being understood by the enemies of God, as even themselves acknowledge, led to their imagining that IAO was a different God, and SABAOTH another, and ADONAEUS, whom the scriptures term ADONAI, a third besides, and that ELOAEUS, whom the prophets name in Hebrew ELOI was also different." (From "Against Celsus" Chapter XXXII).
The name of the Moon God IAO, IAH, JAH, YAH, and LAH were well known for thousands of years in every Middle Eastern country.
Not only is that remembered by Origen, but also the Greek Name for the Egyptian ATEN, namely Adonaeus.
Even more startling is that Origen reminds us that Hor - Greek Horus - was one of the names for God.