Names of God in Judaism
The name of GOD most often used in the Hebrew Bible is
the Tetragrammaton (YHWH). It is frequently anglicized (to
become English in form) as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in
most English editions of the Bible as "the Lord" owing to the Jewish
tradition viewing the divine name as increasingly too sacred to be
uttered.
It was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew
word Adonai (“My Lord”), which was translated as Kyrios (“Lord”)
in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures.
The God that Abraham worshipped went under various names:
El - One of the oldest names of a monotheistic God, dating at least as
early as tablets found in Syria 2300 BC)
Elohim- "Strong One" or "Lord Almighty"
Adonai- "My Lords", plural form of Adon (Lord)
Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh- "I am that I am", Name of God revealed to
Moses (Exodus 3:11-12)
Other Popular Names Of God In Christianity:
YHWH - the Tetragrammaton
Shaddai-"Almighty" According to Exodus 6:2, 3, Shaddai was the
name by which God was known to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Zebaot - "Heavenly Host"
El Elion- “God Most High”
El Olam- “God Eternal”
El Ro’i - “God All-Seeing”
YHWH-Yireh — "The Lord will provide" (Genesis 22:13-14)
YHWH-Rapha — "The Lord that healeth"
YHWH-Niss’i — "The Lord our Banner"
YHWH-Shalom — "The Lord our Peace"
YHWH-Ra-ah — "The Lord is the Way, my Shepherd"
YHWH-Tsidkenu — "The Lord our Righteousness"
YHWH-Shammah — "The Lord is the Light, ever present"
The Ten Commandments are known as the Decalogue.
This is from the Greek words deka which means ten, and logoi,
which means words.
In the Bible, the book of Exodus 20:1-17 gives an account of how
God gives the Ten Commandments to Moses.
The Biblical book of Deuteronomy (5:6-21) also lists the
Commandments that were given.
These commandments mostly give instruction on what we should
not do.
The rules prescribe acceptable behavior with respect to God, as well
as within one's family and society.
The Ten Commandments or God’s Law is not some hard or ,
legalistic code: It is a mainspring of LOVE.
God’s Law is balanced. Love for God must be followed by love for
our fellow men and women. Love people that is not based on
love for God is not True Love.
Love for God and People is not some sentimental feeling: it is an
attitude of heart and will that shows itself in behavior and
action.
THE FIRST FOUR COMMANDMENTS
OF THE DECALOGUE
DUTY TO GOD
EXODUS 20: 2 – 3 and DEUTERONOMY 5: 6 - 7
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the
land of slavery.
YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER gods BEFORE ME.
Major False Gods of the Old Testament:
Ashtoreth/Astarte
goddess of the Canaanites who is connected with fertility and
maternity.
Baal/Bel
was the supreme god among the Canaanites, worshiped in many
forms, but often as a sun god or storm god.
He was a fertility god who supposedly made the earth bear crops
and women bear children.
Rites involved with Baal worship included cult prostitution and
sometimes human sacrifice.
Worshiping Baal was a recurring temptation for the Israelites, as
noted in the book of Judges.
Chemosh
was the national god of the Moabites and was also worshiped by the
Ammonites.
Rites involving this god were said to be cruel also and may have
involved human sacrifice.
Solomon erected an altar to Chemosh south of the Mount of Olives
outside Jerusalem, on the Hill of Corruption. (2 Kings 23:13)
Dagon
This god of the Philistines had the body of a fish and a human head
and hands in its statues.
Dagon was a god of water and grain.
Egyptian Gods
Ancient Egypt had more than 40 false gods, although none are
mentioned by name in the Bible.
Oddly, the Hebrews were not tempted by these gods during their
400+ years of captivity in Egypt.
The Ten Plagues of God against Egypt were humiliations of ten
specific Egyptian gods.
Golden Calf
Golden calves occur twice in the Bible: first at the foot of Mount
Sinai, fashioned by Aaron, and second in the reign of King
Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:26-30).
In both instances, the idols were physical representations of
Yahweh and were judged by him as sin, since he commanded
that no images should be made of him.
Marduk
This god of the Babylonians was associated with fertility and
vegetation.
Milcom/Moloch/Molech/Molek
This national god of the Ammonites was associated with divination,
seeking knowledge of the future through occult means,
strongly forbidden by God.
Child sacrifice was sometimes connected with Milcom. He was
among the false gods worshiped by Solomon at the close of his
reign.
DUTY TO GOD
Exodus 20: 5 – 6 and Deuteronomy 5: 8 – 10
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in
heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your
God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of
parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me,
But showing steadfast love to a thousandth generation of those who
love me and keep my commandments.”
IDOLATRY
- comes from the Greek word eidololatria (εἰδωλολατρία)
which itself is a compound of two words: eidolon (εἴδωλον “image”)
and latreia (λατρεία “worship”.
The word eidololatria thus means “worship of idols”
IDOLATRY
- literally means the worship of an idol, also known as a cult
image, in the form of a physical image, such as a statue or icon.
- In Abrahamic religions, namely Christianity, Islam and
Judaism, idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone
other than God as if it were God.
- In these and several other monotheistic religions, idolatry
has been considered as the worship of false gods and is forbidden.
In many Indian religions, such as theistic and non-theistic forms of
Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, idols are considered as
symbolism for the absolute but not the absolute, or icons of
spiritual ideas, or the embodiment of the divine.
OLD TESTAMENT
Worship in the OT is presented as bowing down before a statue of a
king or a god.
Worship is presented as recognizing some objects as idols and
burning incense or offering gifts to them or worship also means to
serve Baal.
All these types of worship do not give the correct notion for in the
Book of Exodus 20: 1-4 and Deuteronomy 5: 6 - 9, God clearly tells
his people what it means to truly worship Him.
“I am the Lord, your God, you shall not have other God’s before
me… you shall not bow down before them or worship them”
WORSHIP
WORSHIP IS DUE TO GOD ALONE. When we worship Him, we
adore, pay homage and reverence to Him.
THE PROPHETS insisted on true worship which consists not in the
words of lips but in deeds from the heart.
Worship of God should come from our hearts and not simply from our
mouths.
NEW TESTAMENT
In the New Testament, Christ presented an entirely new and different
notion of worship.
For Jesus, our entire life should be one of true worship to God.
Jesus’ entire life was marked by His obedience to the Father.
By submitting Himself to the will of the Father, even if it meant
suffering and death, Jesus showed us what true worship means – it is
a life lived for God alone.
WORSHIP
Jesus also revolutionized the notion of worship by insisting that it
should not be distinct and separate from daily moral living.
(Catechism of Filipino Catholics, 1498)
The authentic meaning and the essence of worship is humbling
down our heart, and bending of our wills to God. It should also
be accompanied by acts of charity.
Authentic Worship necessarily includes both an inner attitude of
reverence and homage before the Divine Majesty, and an outward
expression in signs of words, actions, songs, and dances, usually
enacted in public ritual. (CFC, 1497).
Veneration (Latin veneratio or dulia, Greek δουλεία, douleia), or
veneration of saints, is the act of honoring a saint, a person
who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or
holiness.
Angels are shown similar veneration in many religions.
Philologically, “to venerate” derives from the Latin verb,
venerare, meaning to regard with reverence and respect.
Veneration of saints is practiced, formally or informally, by
adherents of some branches of all major religions, including
Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism.
Within Christianity, veneration is practiced by groups such as the
Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic, and Eastern Catholic
Churches, all of which have varying types of canonization or
glorification procedures.
In the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, veneration is shown
outwardly by respectfully bowing or making the sign of the cross
before a saint's icon, relics, or statue, or by going on pilgrimage to
sites associated with saints.
In general, veneration is not practiced by Protestants, with some
denominations considering these practices heretical.
DUTY TO GOD
Exodus 20:7 and Deuteronomy 5:11
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God,
for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name (takes his
name in vain).
Names of the Lord our God
Exodus 3: 13 - 15
I am who I am.
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
YHWH (not pronounced by the Jews)
Names of the Lord our God
EL ELYON
(GOD MOST HIGH)
TRANSCENDENT GOD
 EL ROI with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first
(GOD WHO SEES ME) commandment.”
OMNIPRESENCE GOD
EL SHADDAI Reasons in loving God
(GOD ALMIGHTY) 1. God designed and made us. (Genesis 1:26)
OMNIPOTENT GOD 2. He is interested in us. (Psalm 44:21)
3. He wants to give us all that we need to be happy and satisfied
EL OLAM in life. (Romans 8:31-32, John 3:16)
(THE ETERNAL GOD) 4. God Commands us to love Him. (Deuteronomy 6:5
Creator God 5. Christ suffered to save us from our sins. (1 Peter 3:18)
God the Provider 6. He is always there with us. (John 14:16)
God the Healer 7. He first loved us. (1 John 4:9 – 10)
God the Lord and Master 8. We cannot please God without love. (1 John 4:8)
Over People
Over death Benefits in Loving God
Over His enemies Abiding in his Love. (John 15:10)
Over His Creation Known by God. (1 Corinthians 8:3)
Over all gods and lords Grace being with you. (Ephesians 6:24)
Blessings. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10)
The “name” speaks of the nature of the bearer.
Tri-unity or three-ness of God
The second commandment prohibits visual representations of God, ‘Holy Trinity’ is the foundational teaching of the Christian faith. All
the third focuses on verbal representations. other teachings flow from this teaching.
The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity is strictly monotheistic (one God).
Any bad words you know related to God’s Name? One of the mysteries in the Christianity
Maybe, some of them are… We can only believe in the Holy Trinity through the light of faith (the
GADDIMMIT (God Damn it) gift of faith).
OH MY GOSH (oh my God is Shit) God being one divine existing in three divine persons; The Father,
SUSMARYOSEP (Jesus Mary Joseph) The Son and The Holy Spirit
DUTY TO GOD Who is God the Father?
God the Father is the first Person of the Holy Trinity, from whom the
Exodus 20:8 and Deuteronomy 5:12 Son is eternally begotten and the Holy Spirit eternally proceeds.
Observe the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy, as the Lord your God (John 1:1, 14; 14:16-17,26; 15:26)
Commanded you What do we mean when we call God “Father”?
When we call God “Father”, we acknowledge that we are created by
Matthew 22:35 - 37 God for relationship with Him, that God made us in His image,
And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question to test him. that we trust God as our protector and provider, and that we put
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said our hope in God as his child and heir in Christ.
to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
Who is Jesus Christ? The Trinity is not teaching that there are three gods, but that there are
Jesus Christ is the eternal Word and Son of God, the second Person of Three Persons that comprise one God.
the Holy Trinity. He took on the Human flesh to be the Savior “The Tri-unity of God is like a sound:
and Redeemer of the world, the only Mediator between God God is the source or speaker (Isaiah 55:11), Jesus is the word spoken
and fallen mankind. (Hebrew 1:2) and the Holy Spirit is the way God continues to speak
What does “Jesus” and “Christ” mean? (John 16:13)”
Jesus means “God saves” and is taken from the Hebrew name Yeshua
or Joshua. In Jesus, God has come to save the us from the
power of sin and death. (Matthew 1:21).
Christos is a Greek word meaning “Anointed One.”
Why is Jesus called the Father’s “only Son”?
Jesus alone is God the Son, co-equal and co-eternal with God the
Father and God the Holy Spirit. He alone is the image of the
invisible Father, the one who makes the Father known. He is
now and forever will be incarnate as a Human, bearing his God-
given human name. The Father created an now rules all things
in Heaven and earth “through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Who is the Holy Spirit?
God the Holy Spirit is the third Person in the one Being of the Holy
Trinity, co equal and co-eternal with God the Father and God
the Son, and equal worthy of our honor and worship.
Jesus name the Holy Spirit “Paraclete” (the one alongside). This
signifies Comforter, Guide, Counselor, Advocate, and Helper.
Other names for the Holy Spirit are Spirit of God, Spirit of the
Father, Spirit of Christ and Spirit of Truth.

What are the particular ministries of the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit imparts life in all its forms throughout God’s
creation, unites believers to Jesus Christ, indwells each believer,
convicts believers of sin, applies the saving work of Jesus to the
believer’s life guides church into truth, fills and empowers
believers through spiritual fruit and gifts given to the church
and gives understanding of the Scripture which He inspired. (2
peter 1:21; John 14:26; 15:26; 16:7-15)
The fruit of the Holy Spirit is the very character of Jesus developing
in us through the work of the Holy Spirit: “love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self
control” (Galatians 5:22-23)
The doctrine of the Trinity is strictly Monotheistic -- ONE God.