Yes, I suppose "Dad" might be a little better than "Daddy." It must surely have seemed somewhat informal and perhaps silly to people accustomed to hearing God referred to using names like "Lord of Hosts" and "King of this world" and the like.
OM-Abba: I like that.
But God has many names and each name is a way of access and there can be and must be finally perhaps one particular name for each person to discover as well as those which are for all.
That is an excellent point. The author of the Gospel of Truth wrote that when one obtains acquaintance it is like hearing your true and secret name spoken for the first time. It would not surprise me in the least if hearing one's own secret name corresponded with learning a new name of God...
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Re: Names of God
Date: 2003-03-24 06:16 am (UTC)Yes, I suppose "Dad" might be a little better than "Daddy." It must surely have seemed somewhat informal and perhaps silly to people accustomed to hearing God referred to using names like "Lord of Hosts" and "King of this world" and the like.
OM-Abba: I like that.
But God has many names and each name is a way of access
and there can be and must be finally perhaps one particular
name for each person to discover as well as those which
are for all.
That is an excellent point. The author of the Gospel of Truth wrote that when one obtains acquaintance it is like hearing your true and secret name spoken for the first time. It would not surprise me in the least if hearing one's own secret name corresponded with learning a new name of God...