Another shout of praise goes up to Jehovah!, page-491

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    As you wish.
    No use trying to point out that all names or titles for the Creator of the Universe are symbolic, nor how inappropriate it is to impose a personal name on such. That is nothing but an attempt at ownership.

    It's like microbes claiming to know you exist and what your personal name and motives are.
    It is diminishing the Creator to your own level of Cosmic insignificance by assigning a "personal" name and using that as some sort of claim of being specially chosen.
    Isn't that disrespectful ?
    Is it any different to what is known as "name dropping" ?

    Would you regard "Sol" as the personal name of our Sun without which life here would not be possible ?
    Is "Earth" the personal name of this planet ? Is "Jupiter" the personal name of that great planet ?
    No, these are names used for identification.

    How much more inappropriate is it to claim that the name(s) used by OT writers to identify and differentiate their particular God is the personal name of the endless Creator of All.

    God is not the author of the Bible. That is a fabrication.
    Men and women are the authors of the Bible. The often undesirable fruit of the Bible over 1500 yrs or more proves it could not possibly be authored by God.
    It contains thoughts, ideas, stories and experiences of humans. In some cases remarkable and unusual humans, inspired by contact with "higher" influence beyond ordinary ordinary human experiences, but not beyond all human experience.

    Surely that is what should be respected and makes some of the contents remarkable.
    However, to claim that God is the author diminishes and is disrespectful to both God and the authors.

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