Moving into another topic that comes up rather often when digging deeper into the Bible: The Name of God. There will be a lot of things we will cover in this topic. I wanted to start off with my experience when it came to the Name. During the time I was looking into the Sabbath, my pastor had done a sermon on the Names of God in the Bible. He printed off a sheet and passed them out. One Name stood out to me on that sheet. He said that this was the Name of God and what was the word behind every LORD when reading. That Name was Adonai.

I had been a Christian for almost 30 years at this point. I had never been taught that there was a Name behind LORD. Sure, I had heard the usual "El Shaddai" and "Jehovah Jirah" and the like. I had never heard the word Adonai. I thought it sounded beautiful. I started praying to God asking: is this your Name? I started looking for a Bible that used Adonai instead of LORD and got one.

Let me give a little history of myself for some context. Names were important to me. All of my life I had been on guard about my name. From a very early age I had been told to not let people call me "Josh", my name was "Joshua". Later on as I observed how people interacted with each other, I learned that people who respected each other tried to say each other's names as correctly as they could. Especially if the name of one of the people was something foreign to the other. As a late teen and onward, if someone would in fact call me "Josh", I would correct them. If they got flippant about it, I would find a way to shorten their name. No matter how ridiculous it sounded.

So, when I found out that I had been calling God by something that wasn't His Name my whole life, it hit me hard. I then went and studied to confirm. These next comics on this topic will be the results of that study.

https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/566

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