Names of God
forms of address or reference to the deity of a religion
Names of God are personal (e.g. Elohim, Yahweh, Jehovah), attributive (e.g. Wisdom, Logos, Truth) and relational (e.g. Father, Lord, Creator, Christ).
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Quotes
edit- Neither, therefore, is one name sufficient alone to articulate all the glories of God, nor is each name accepted in its full extent without danger. For, if someone says, "God," this does not connote the notion "Father," and by "Father" is left out the notion of "Creator." In these, moreover, is wanting Goodness, Wisdom, Power, and the rest of the things conveyed in the holy Scriptures. Likewise, if we apply the term "Father" to God in its full extent according to our usage, we are impious. For this connotes passion and emanation and ignorance and weakness and other such things. Similarly, the term "Creator"; for with us this implies time, matter, instruments, help—from all of which the pious conception of God must be purged insofar as this is humanly possible.
- Saint Basil the Great, On Christian Ethics (c. 360) as translated by Jacob N. Van Sickle (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press: 2014), p. 77.
- The creative mind as the center of this universe is known as "Lord", "King", and "Redeemer".
- James J. Hurtak: The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch
- Of all the names by which God the Father is known throughout the universes, those which designate him as the First Source and the Universe Center are most often encountered. The First Father is known by various names in different universes and in different sectors of the same universe. … Near the center of the universe of universes, the Universal Father is generally known by names which may be regarded as meaning the First Source. Farther out in the universes of space, the terms employed to designate the Universal Father more often mean the Universal Center. Still farther out in the starry creation, he is known, as on the headquarters world of your local universe, as the First Creative Source and Divine Center. In one near-by constellation God is called the Father of Universes. In another, the Infinite Upholder, and to the east, the Divine Controller. He has also been designated the Father of Lights, the Gift of Life, and the All-powerful One.
