This is because a name is nothing more than a label and a label not only defines what something is, it also defines what something is not.
Exactly. The distinctive name of Jehovah immediately calls to mind that Jehovah is not a trinity. He is not Jesus. He is not Allah. He is not Khrisna. He is not Buddha, etc.
Thus when you state that an object is a book, for instance, you can produce instantly an image of a book. And you know also instantly that the named object isn't a vase, or a tree, or whatever.
Without a doubt, this is some of the goofiest "reasoning" that has ever emanated from a human mind. According to your reasoning, so-called, the generic names of God and Lord would also "instantly" produce a certain forbidden image of, dare I say---God. If your empty-headed reasoning ever became a reality we would not utter the words God or Lord either but merely motion with our finger heavenward when we wished to bring up the unspeakable. Even that though would "instantly" produce an image in the mind of those whom you wish to stupify with your nonsense.
So when you say that God's name is Jehovah, it limits that god to a certain set of characteristics; a set of definitions of his nature, his makeup - essentially his being is defined.
Exactly. The name Jehovah literally means "he that causes to become." Only the Eternal Creator can rightly bear that name. All the other would-be gods are frauds because none of them can cause anything to become, or impose their will upon all creation as can Jehovah.
The point here is that if you can define god, that's not him. God is infinite, eternal, and absolute. He cannot be captured in words.
How true the apostle's words about those who had become "empty-headed in their reasonings," and who do "not approve of holding God in accurate knowledge." God is quite knowable. Obviously you chose not to know him for your own transparently selfish reasons. You make god into your own twisted image and glorify ignorance.
It is impossible to obtain an absolute verbal knowledge of god, the real one, because a name, a label, is a limit and a limited god is not God at all.
That is just stupid and satanic. You are obviously bias against the name that God has given himself. God invented the human mind with the capacity to understand languages in order to transmit thoughts. While God's thoughts are obviously higher than man's thoughts, they are not unknowable. Humans were created with the desire and ability to think God's thoughts. Righteous people are drawn to him and he teaches them who he is. Obviously wicked individuals are repelled by him and wish to distort the truth about God.
Thus, when the Hebrews used "YHWH" for their god, they could only be describing their local, tribal god; not the infinite God of the universes.
What utter nonsense! Jehovah was no local or tribal god. The tribal gods that were common among the peoples were completely different from Jehovah. No god had ever claimed to be the sole diety and Creator of the universe. The revelation that Jehovah made of himself through the Hebrew prophets was the most startling and awesome truth ever given to mankind.
The minor prophets also attempted to upstep the Hebrew's concept of God, calling him the god of the universe. But maintaining the use of the tribal name Jehovah.
Jehovah revealed himself as the God of the universe from the very beginning. In fact, that's how the bok of Jehovah begins by saying: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." It don't get any more universal than that.
And Jesus. Another attempt to expand the conscious awareness that God was not only the majestic and eternal creator of the universes, but also a loving heavenly father. There is NO record of Jesus having ever used the tribal name of god for his father.
Jesus quoted Isaiah 61:1 the says that "The spirit of Jehovah is upon me, for the reason that Jehovah has anointed me..." Jesus would not have followed the Jewish superstition of not pronouncing his own Father's name. In fact the name Jesus, as a derivation of the Hebrew name Joshua, means literally---"Jehovah is salvation." Clearly, at this point, your ignorance is limit down. LOL
The god that you can name is not the eternal god.
That's true. Men didn't name God Jehovah. He named himself and revealed his name to mankind. / You Know
