God Called and Spoke to Moses
God Called and spoke to Moses Exodus 3: Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro… The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; …. When the LORD saw that he turned … God called to him … and said, “Moses, Moses!” …. And he […]
Names of God in the Bible
To Whom am I to pray? To whom am I to communicate? With whom am I to commune? Islam prays to الله Allāh, Judeo Christians to YHWH/God, Christians to Jesus, Hinduism to Shiva, Brahma, and Indra, The list of names used to address God is longer than the total number of languages which have existed. […]
Adonai: Lord or Master
Adonai (Lord/Master, ad-o-noy’, אֲדֹנָי) plural The singular form means “master, owner.” implying Authority, Provider Adonai ( = “Lord”), The MT has replaced the tetragrammaton (יהוה) YHWH with Lord
Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love
In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man. In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature. In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif. Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.