What's the True Name of God?

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(12-30-2008 10:09 PM)carl37 Wrote:  Great question. As already noted I have no idea. I am ashamed that I don't know that. Although I don't pray to them or believe in them, I know that Zeus is the greek god of war and that Jupiter is supposed to be the king of the gods.

Well actually Zeus is the King of the Greek Gods and Jupiter King of the
roman Gods, so they may be seen as essentially the same thing, more or less In the Greek the letter Z was pronounced ZD hence ZDEUS. We see the Z drop and we get DEUS the latin word for God (Divus, as the title of the Emperorrs meant demigod.

THe Greek God of war was Ares (well one of them, Athena was also involved in war)

pagans were very good at taking an aspect of a deity and making a separate god out of it, hence polytheism is the degenerate devolved form of monotheism not the evolutionary basis for it as modern scholars like to claim

the following is a little wimsy. I recall the full latin form of Jupiter is
IOVI PATER - its old english equivalent is Jove.

I wouldnt be surprised if the name came from a garbled hebrew source after all IOVI pater sounds like YHWH Pater

I'm not saying the name Jesus came from the pagans, im suggesting the reverse. Not that this means they worshipped Him in spirit or truth, after all the Hebrew Ba'al meant LORD but they did not worship the ONE Lord when they chased after Ba'al (which we pronounce here in NZ as Bahl rhyming with Dahl, not bail ), but that they took the true name, or a true aspect and made an idol of it.