Pendahuluan penjelasan makna nama Allah oleh orang Yahudi sendiri (audio)

 

What was God's Name in Ancient Israel?

As Isaiah said:
Isaiah 55:8-9 "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways...for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." 

Yesaya 55:8,9

(8) Sebab rancangan-Ku bukanlah rancanganmu, dan jalanmu bukanlah jalan-Ku, demikianlah firman TUHAN.	(8) TUHAN berkata, "Pikiran-Ku bukan pikiranmu, dan jalan-Ku bukan jalanmu.	(8) For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.
(9) Seperti tingginya langit dari bumi, demikianlah tingginya jalan-Ku dari jalanmu dan rancangan-Ku dari rancanganmu.	(9) Setinggi langit di atas bumi, setinggi itulah pikiran-Ku di atas pikiranmu, dan jalan-Ku di atas jalanmu.	(9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

 

Prov 18:10 "The name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous run to it and are safe."

Amsal 18:10

10) Nama TUHAN adalah menara yang kuat, ke sanalah orang benar berlari dan ia menjadi selamat.

(10) TUHAN itu seperti menara yang kuat; ke sanalah orang jujur pergi dan mendapat tempat yang aman.

(10) The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the [consistently] righteous man [upright and in right standing with God] runs into it and is safe, high [above evil] and strong.

 

What name could fully describe God? Anything that we can think of poses some form of limitation, he is this and not that, or he is here and not there. But the God of the Bible is revealed as someone that the heavens cannot contain. He is beyond limitation, and no man can fully describe him. The Bible indicates that the prophets only knew in part. But it is a full word of God, his full revelation from beginning to end that can give us a faith and an understanding of God and his purposes. Apart from his word we are in darkness and there is no knowledge of God, of who God is.

This is 5 minutes audio introductioon regarding of the names of God revealed to ancient Israel, taken from an interview with Shahar from Jerusalem.