But putting the name of each member of the Trinity in quotation marks or derisive parentheses is a mockery of God, or a denial, but again all that stuff is already in the Bible too. There is nothing new under the sun. And I believe God can handle our need to pour out ourselves when it seems that the awfukness is too much.
Brian,
When your wrote 'aw-fuk-ness' you did mean awfulness, didn't you..... ;=
Thanks, BTW, for your response to my question regarding your statement in one of your last posts in the now archived last 500 pages, wherein you'd mentioned your 10 year old nephew.
In your response to me you stated that you'd 'read every word' of my response.
There were other issues in your post that I'd brought up, that you did not address in your response to me, that I would have enjoyed reading, but, for whatever reason, you chose not to respond to them....., and that's just gotta be OK....!!
Regarding the first boldened sentence in your quote, that I know was addressed to me, though obliquely so, in response to a post I'd put up for Rance, I have the following to say:
"God - The Lord", "The Holy Spirit" and
"Jesus" called
"The Christ",
are not, and have never been the
actual 'names' of each member of theTriune Deity.
First, the Hebrew word for God consists of four letters pronounced
yod, he, vov, and
he,
that is transliterated consonantly, usually as
YHVH, and that is pronounced at present as
Adonai or
Elohim,
in substitution of the original, now forbidden pronunciation!, so to say, or write the words "God, and "the Lord", is by no stretch of the imagination to 'name' it/him....!
Second, We first hear about The Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, in
Matthew 3:16 where immediately upon the one we call "Jesus" was baptised,
".....he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him". Certainly, Matthew (Levi) himself could not have been an eyewitness to this event, for he doesn't appear in that Gospel until we read of his calling in
Chapter 9:9.....!
Who is the 'he' that sees and then identifies the 'dove' with 'the Spirit of God'....??
Furthermore, it wasn't until the
Council of Constantinople in 381 A.C.E., that the definition of the Holy Spirit as a divine 'person' equal in substance to 'the Father' and 'the Son', was proclaimed and officially installed a place in the divine triplicity.
Does speaking or writing the phrase 'the Holy Spirit', so utterly, nebulously non-descript in and of itself..!,truly represent the
real name of this entity...? I say not!
Third,
Y'shua is the real name of the one we call 'the Christos', 'the annointed one'
Y'shua is the Hebrew version of the name
Joshua.
We would be closer to
the truth if when refering to the carpenter from Nazareth, we would call him
Joshua Christ..!
To attempt to inhibit anyone engaged in writings that appear in a public forum from using gramatical signs and symbols in connection with names or phrases, and associating their employment with a 'mockery of God' and/or 'a denial' (of God) is ludicrous!
peace out dude!
Zad 
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