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This article was nominated for deletion on 16 May 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

Divine name was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 11 January 2024 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Names of God. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Comment by Word1 (talk · contribs)

{{So, does the christian god have a name? No...and Jehovah is not a name but comes from the jewish translation of Yiddish to english "I am". Read on... In Exodus 3:13-14, the christian god is reported to have answered that question saying "I AM WHO I AM". However, some people say that the name of God is Jehovah or Yahweh. [[[Exodus 3:13 - King James Version (KJV) (13) And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? (14) And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.]]] The reason is that in Hebrew (the Book of Exodus was written in Hebrew) the word for “I AM” is a Hebrew word translated as YHWH. This is why a lot of English translations will say that the name of God is Jehovah or Yahweh. It is an English-styled version of those four letters. It is an English, from the Hebrew, mistranslation of "I AM WHO I AM", and unlike any of the other gods down through recorder history, the christian god is the only "god" that does not have a name.}}

Moved from main article by --Auric talk 21:43, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Christ Pantocrator Suggestion

Should Christ Pantocrator be included in this article? the eloquent peasant (talk) 00:18, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Confused title

The article's title implies there is some kind of monotheistic consensus that the Abrahamic and Indian deities are the same god. While both branches of belief refer to their supreme being as 'God', clearly they are not the same. Obscurasky (talk) 20:12, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Religion of the Israelites distinct from Judaism

The Bible is quite clear in many ways that the religion of the Israelites was changing over time, and that it was not monotheistic, but rather henotheistic, that God was localised geographically (Yhwh "went forth from Seir" and "marched out of the field of Edom" [Judges 5:4], "God came from Teman" [Habbakuk 3:3]), etc. The article disregards all that and sticks to modern rabbincal Judaism. Arminden (talk) 08:55, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bad merge

The Western monotheism taint in this article is sad. The concepts of a name of God and of divine names are fundamentally different. Their scholars and fields of study are distinct. I'm moving the poorly-merged Divine name article back into existence. I will do this on my own authority because the erasure via POV problem is clear. Temerarius (talk) 03:28, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For the sake of clarification: Name of God deals more with the connotations and significance of the name of any deity within their respective religious systems. Information on just the name of a god is/should be located at Theonym. As for the “Western monotheism taint”, numerous non-Western polytheistic religious systems, both ancient and modern, are discussed at length in this article. If you have ideas for improving these areas in the article, you’re obviously more than welcome to implement them, but please adhere to WP:AGF. Sinclairian (talk) 14:43, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]