Let the debate begin-Round One

[John 15:18]

The question is:


With God, what has he told us that his name is? If Jesus was going to say that he was God to a group of Jews, well versed in the Torah, what would he have called himself?


Would he have said "I am God, so worship me?"


Or would he have used the name that God Himself promised he would use? Would he use the name that God explicitly said would be his name for generations in dealing with his people?


He used that name, and you deny that he did. But, that's the way it goes, I suppose. Thank goodness we have the rest of the New Testament, which clarifies the issue for those of us who are gentiles, and who are not first century Jews, but even then:


Jesus uses the name God gave himself. period. And for future reference, unlike yourself, I have actually read the New Testament in Greek, and it seems pretty conclusive there, as well as in the English. Now, you may not think that "I AM" is God's name (even though he said it was in the Old Testament). That's fine, and you are entitled to it. But, it doesn't lessen the fact that Jesus made sure to call himself by that very name, which really angered the Jews who saw it as blasphemy.


This debate is an awful lot like if God showed up and called himself Allah to you, and you told me about it, and I said, "okay, but when did he call himself God?"


Different language, different terminology, etc.