The progression of philosophy

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Thoughts on the origin of worldview

"Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and, actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors. We call our children and our lands by their names. Their names are wrought into the verbs of language, their works and effigies are in our houses, and every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of them. The search after the great man is the dream of youth and the most serious occupation of manhood. We travel into foreign parts to find his works, -if possible, to get a glimpse of him. But we are put off with fortune instead."
Uses of Great Men, Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is it about man that we find it so easy to obsess over ourselves? The biggest obstacle a man will ever face is the confines that he will impose on himself. The irony is that man's greatest self-imposed confine is himself. The depths of man inherently know that a higher power is omnipresent in his domain, and he tends to loathe it. On the one hand, we refuse to submit to anything attempting to claim lordship of our innermost thoughts and subtle actions, but on the other, we sell our souls for the permission to identify with certain thought processes and popular sociological trends. A particular rocket scientist could reject all thoughts of a creator or god in an attempt to “liberate” his mind, and simultaneously fall prey to the same social restrictions that ensnare high school girls when selecting an outfit and brand names to wear for a night out.
Every culture adopts and raises a distinct cornucopia of principles and ideas with which they choose to identify. These principles govern all who find themselves enveloped within its jurisdiction. For Europeans before the reformation, this social order was constructed around the dictations of God mainly through the Pope. Their lives were simple, and they relied on God for everything. A farmer would come to the dinner table with his sons after a long day at work in the fields, and he would bow his head to pray for rain for the crops they just planted, and continued health and protection for the members of his family. For the people of his era, life was completely out of human control or prediction. It rained only when God made it rain and for however long He saw fit. Disease was prevalent, but He bestowed protection on whom He wanted to when He wanted to. Life was extremely matter of fact. Imagine the implications to such a society when someone starts predicting the weather. Weather patterns become charted, germs get discovered, preventative measures are concocted, and God’s job description gets redefined. The situation snowballs, and mankind’s dependence on its progenitor is obliterated during a hectic rapid development of a society spawned by trust in man.
Corrupt Popes fused with advances in technology propelled thoughts away from God and into outer space or on massive ships surveying the globe. Mankind was unstoppable. Instead of demonstrating this vertically like their previous attempt to build a tower to touch heaven, they expressed this notion horizontally. Ideas and inventions spread like fire through mentally dry lands. Was man limitless?

It is ironic that the corruption of a few religious leaders served as a catalyst to corrupt human thought in general on the opposite side of the pendulum. It seems that when human nature and philosophy interact the consequent irrational actions produced are often followed by harsher reactions. We are a people that travel between scarlet letters and complete sexual perversion without any contemplation of the existence of a middle ground. In any case, religion dispersed as kings and popes faced off against each other. With mankind’s advancement, and subsequent self-reliance, the power of the church cracked. Man no longer needed a pope to bridge the gap between God and man and felt confident enough to interpret the Bible for himself. Denominations were born as a result of people feeling like they could say and think what they wanted. In Germany, Luther declared that the Eucharist was the actual body of Christ, and is later excommunicated from the church after writing a divisive paper called the “Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms.” In Switzerland, massive amounts of people started following John Calvin’s interpretation of the Bible. Erasmus declared himself a humanist Christian (today an explicit oxymoron) and started criticizing doctrines, even re-writing certain sacred texts. The Christian order was in disarray. Catholicism faced off against the Protestants, and the church of England at the time adopted a crossbreed of the two. True Humanism had its foothold and the notion of an absolute truth was dealt a fatal blow, although it would take a few more centuries to bleed out. Today, Europe is agnostic and atheistic in its values.

*to be continued*

Biblical Evidence for the Nature of Saving Faith (Including Assent, Trust, Hope, Works, Obedience, and Sanctification)

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Written by DAVE ARMSTRONG

Topics Include:
I. Trust as an Aspect of Faith and Discipleship
II. Believing God: Implying Trust or Hope, and Faith
III. Faith in God, In the Sense of Implying Trust or Hope
IV. Hope in the Lord and in Salvation
V. Confidence in God, In the Sense of Implying Trust and Faith
VI. Waiting for God, Implying Trust and Faith
VII. The Lord as a "Rock": Implying Trust and Faith
VIII. The Lord as "My Strength" or "My Stronghold"
IX. The Lord as a "Refuge": Implying Trust and Faith
X. Absence of Fear as an Aspect of Faith and Trust in God
XI. God as a "Shield"
XII. God as "My Help"
XIII. "Seeking the Lord" as an Aspect of Faith
XIV. "Looking to the Lord" as an Aspect of Faith

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle

Often, I find myself critiquing the actions and motives of the people God put in my life. "Sal thinks he has it so tough. The kid is a joke, his parents still pay for everything. He has no idea what life is like, I have been on my own financially since I was sixteen." Then of course there are people who in turn see my life as a cake-walk as they cuddle up under cars to grab a night's sleep. The fact of the matter is, life is about perspective and vantage. World War II, for example, left countless people homeless and fatherless, widowed and desolate, but it also made some people's fortunes and left the nations that were unscathed poised for prosperity. Different peoples inherited different situations following this catostrophic event in history. Many would ponder this and interpret that life bestowed kindness on some, and cruelty on others. Misunderstanding life in this way is a common error that we all make. Life is life. The doses may be different, but we all endure pain and hardship, happiness and triumph, dissapointment and calamity. A rich kid growing up with everything he could want being immediately handed to him is ensnared by life just as much as a poor kid who has to work to support his family and cannot go to college. Homeless people have issues, so does Donald Trump.

We need to understand this. John 13:34-35 says "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." It is difficult to love people we do not understand. In order to understand people, we must be cognizant and acceptant of the fact that "everyone you meet is fighting a battle." -Plato. (Another version of Plato's quote went "Be kind for everyone is enduring their own personal hell) People are going to have hardships, whether their life situation appears to be severe or not. I once dated a girl that would get extremely stressed and depressed whenever she did not excell on a test. Her approach to perfection made it difficult for me to respect her. It seemed absurd to me that she made school into such a big deal, especially since one of my friends had just died in a car accident. I learned that if something is truly a big deal to a person, then you should respect it for what it is. Maybe failing a test was the worse thing to happen to this girl, but regardless, that represented her pinnacle of fear and anxiety. The degree of a person's emotional state is more important to focus on than the events that transported them there. We must respect and sympathize with people according to where they see themselves.

Reflections on Psalm 95

Psalm 95

1O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
3For the LORD is a great God And a great King above all gods,
4In whose hand are the depths of the earth, The peaks of the mountains are His also.
5The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.
6Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand Today, if you would hear His voice,
8Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9"When your fathers tested Me, They tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10"For forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways.
11"Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest."

"Massah" is hebrew for "testing"
"Meribah" is hebrew for "quarrelling"
These names were given to the place God, Moses, and the Isrealites squared off, as recounted in the book of Exodus, chapter 17.

Exodus 17:1-7
1Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.
2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water that we may drink " And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"
3But the people thirsted there for water; and they grumbled against Moses and said, "Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"
4So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me."
5Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6"Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"

Notes on Wisdom

This morning I asked my pastor to define "wisdom." He replied, "wisdom is knowning how to live skillfully. You get it by fearing the Lord." He continued, "now the key to fearing the Lord is seeing God as He is, and seeing myself as I am, and respecting that gap." I found his statement interesting. Introspection is an essential part of our attempt to follow Christ. (2 Corinthians 13:5 bids us to test and examine ourselves.) If I can get to a place where I can truly comprehend the differences between myself and God, it seems I would have no choice but to fear Him... whether I had a personal relationship with Him or not. My interest is officially piqued by this. Topical study is brewing... but for now, here are a few verses to ponder concerning wisdom.

Proverbs 1:7
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:20-22
20Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square; 21At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings: 22"How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 2:3-7
3For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; 4If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; 5Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God. 6For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Psalm 111:10
10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever.

James 1:5 and Matthew 7:7-8
5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

7"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Jehovah Jireh The Accountant

The problem: Consumerism has consumed us.
Human nature is unchanging. Man's cultivation of greed and impulse of self-preservation provide the fuel to life in our modern concrete jungles in the same manner that it provided life's motive for our progenitors. Although technology changes with the times, this concoction that acts as a respirator for too many has walked with mankind since our genesis. Lets face it... life is expensive, and at times daunting. At twenty-three years of age, most people's basic bills include; rent, car insurance, health insurance, cell phone, student loans, and possibly car payments. These are considered necessities by society. One could argue that today, television and internet bills are deemed necessities as well. Then add a few credit cards, food, clothing, etc... Our lives are consumed by working and working trying to sustain and purchase. Some of us have to add a kid or two to the mix as well. It becomes mesmerizing. I believe that America today is no different than it was in our colonial stage in the sense that mankind is linked by the fear of providing sufficiency for tomorrow. Maybe a few centuries ago Indians posed a bigger threat then debt collectors and blackberry bills, but hey... anxiety is anxiety.

The problem here is that we become consumed by tinkering with our individual puzzles of how to fit which paycheck to which bill; it is pathetic. We waste our lives trying to survive, and we exhaust our energies playing in the wrong game. As individually created beings, we are called to follow Christ, and to focus on the "eternal." We are given a simple choice between submitting to this calling, and damnation. How can we be freed to follow Jesus when we are enslaved to our consumerism and consequent debts? The distraction is dangerous.

If it weren't for my unwarranted fear of Christian acronyms, here would be the point in this essay where I would post a cute picture of a frog. Seriously though, we must dig deep to find this entrenched fear of "having enough," (whatever that means) and, in faith, submit that to God.

Mathew 6:19-34 says "
19"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22"The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. 23"But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other You cannot serve God and wealth. 25"For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? 28"And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 30"But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! 31"Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear for clothing?' 32"For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

God's desire for us is that we worry about Him... that's it. Period. God calls Himself "Jehovah Jireh," which literally translates to "The Lord Will Provide." It comes from the root Hebrew word "to see" or "foresee" like a prophet. He sees our needs well before we even do. (Psalm 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.) We were made to serve and to worship Him, anything in our lives that rises to interfere or distract from our purpose is not of God. All Our Provider wants is for us to have clear access to Him. That is the entire reason that He bothered to create us. If God in His omnipotence does not have the daily contact with us that He so desires, then we are gravely amiss in the direction of our lives. Why do we sometimes feel that we are stranded in our situations? God has parted seas and wiped out nations for the comfort of His people. 1 Peter 5:7 instructs us "casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you." He wants nothing more than to help us to find our way to Him.

How can we learn to relax in God, and pursue what He wants us to pursue?
In order to solidify our dependence on Christ, we must work daily at keeping life in perspective.
In Ephesians chapter five, verses three and five states that greedy and covetous men have no place in the Kingdom of God. Verse five indicates that covetousness is idolatry. "5For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. " Do not allow yourself to want what other people may have. Greed posseses poor people in the same manner in which it possesses the rich. We need only to be consumed by God.
Hebrews 12:1-3
1Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

We cannot serve God and money. Since we were born into sin, and are stuck with our sinful human nature, we must actively fix our eyes on Jesus, because our natural tendency is to chase self satisfaction.
Proverbs 23:4-5
4Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it. 5When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

If we feel that money has too great a hold on us, we must let it go.
Mathew 18:7-9
7"Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes! 8"If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire. 9"If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

These are some serious words uttered by Jesus, the man who owned only one tunic when he died. Whatever the cost, do not bow down to money and materialistic things. The more money has a hold on your life, the more you should give away. 1Cor 9:7 says that "the Lord loves a cheerful giver," so give freely expecting nothing in return.

Please, let us not be distracted by the worries of tomorrow. Let us instead be so caught up in God that we are too distracted to feel anxiety. Tithe, even at the end of the month, and turn down that extra Sunday morning shift when it is offered at work. Trust that Jehovah Jireh will reward faithfulness with His company.

Duet 4:23-35
23"So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the LORD your God has commanded you. 24"For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 25"When you become the father of children and children's children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God so as to provoke Him to anger, 26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27"The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD drives you. 28"There you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. 29"But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. 30"When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice. 31"For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them. 32"Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? 33"Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? 34"Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35"To you it was shown that you might know that the LORD, He is God; there is no other besides Him.

Let us strive to get to a place in our lives where, like Paul, we can honestly say, "I have covered no one's gold or silver or clothes." (Acts 20:33) Pray that God will enable us to eradicate our distractions, and actively seek Him; He will take care of everything else.

What's in a name?

THE NAMES OF GOD


Isa 43:1 But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Isreal, "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!"

Names are important to God. Throughout the Bible, God plays an interactive and personal role in the selection of different peoples names, in a few instances even changing the names of people who experienced an epiphany with God. Names were often used to portray a dominant character trait of a person. The Bible provides many different names for God to help us understand some of the many different dimensions of His Character. The same God that smote cities and obliterated entire races of people, is the same God that says He personally attends to the flowers and birds of the earth. Researching the different names of God is the same as researching His different character traits and facets of His personality. Psalm 9:10 says "And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You." For me, the experience was very interesting, and at times, a form of worship. I do not understand Hebrew, and as a result, this study was fabricated by collaborating different scholars and researchers with the little I previously knew about the names of God.

Before we delve into the names of God, I figured it would be interesting to briefly visit what God says about His name.

Psalm 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

Psalm 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven.

Psalm 7:17 I will give thanks to the LORD according to His righteousness And will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Psalm 9:2 I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

Psalm 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

Meditate on His name while reading through this, and praise His name without ceasing. Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run to it and are safe.
Run to His name throughout the day. He has provided (Jehovah Jireh) a stronghold for us to escape temptation and fear, it would behoove us to learn to use it.
Enjoy.

"JEHOVAH: LORD in our English Bibles (all capitals). Yahweh is the covenant name of God. Occurs 6823 times in the OT First use Gen. 2:4 (Jehovah Elohim). From the verb "to be", havah, similar to chavah (to live), "The Self-Existent One," "I AM WHO I AM" or 'I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE" as revealed to Moses at the burning bush, Ex.3. The name of God, too sacred to be uttered, abbreviated ( . . . . ) or written "YHWH" without vowel points. The tetragrammaton. Josh., Judges, Sam., and Kings use Jehovah almost exclusively. The love of God is conditioned upon His moral and spiritual attributes. (Dan. 9:14; Ps. 11:7; Lev. 19:2; Hab. 1:12). Note Deut. 6:4, 5 known to Jews as the Sh'ma uses both Jehovah and Elohim to indicate one God with a plurality of persons." - Lambert Dolphin

• Ex 3:13-15, 1Chron 16:23-29
  
  
  

God is:

Jehovah Shammah- The Lord is There

• This name promises His presence; "where two or three come together in My name, there I am with them." Matt 18:20
• Deut 31:6, Ezek 48:35, I Cor 3:16, Isa 12:6, Matt 28:20, Rev 21:1-3

Jehovah Jireh- The Lord Will Provide

• From the root word "to see," or "foresee," like a prophet. This name tells us God is willing and able to meet every need of His people. He sees our needs before we even do.
• Gen 22:8, 13-14, Acts 14:17, Rom 8:32, II Cor 9:8, Phil 4:19, I Tim 6:17

El- The God of Power and Might, Prominant One (used 250 times in OT)

• Linguistically, it is similiar to the muslim god "allah" although the characteristics attributed to the name vary. In the Bible, El is used to describe pagan gods as well
• Exo 15:1-3,11, Deut 3:24, II Chron 20:6, Psalm 18:2-3, Psalm 89:5-8, Isa 43:10-13, Gen. 7:1, 28:3, 35:11; Nu. 23:22; Josh. 3:10; 2 Sam. 22:31, 32; Neh. 1:5, 9:32; Isa. 9:6; Ezek. 10:5

Jehovah Rapha- The Lord Heals

• He heals our bodies, but the emphasis here is that He is the healer and restorer of our spirit, our heart, and our soul.
• Exo 15:22-26, Deut 32:39, Psalm 103:1-4, Psalm 147:3, Isa 53:4-5, Matt 8:16-17

Jehovah Tsidkenu- The Lord is our Righteousness

• "There is no one righteous, not even one," (Rom 3:10) but we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense; Jesus Christ, The Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins (1John 2:1-2) the unblemished bridge between God and man.
• Jer 23:5-6, Rom 3:21-22, Rom 5:17-19, II Cor 5:21, Ezek 36:25-26, 1John 1:7,9

Jehovah Shalom- The Lord is Peace

• Rom 5:1, John 14:27, Judges 6:22-24, Eph 2:14-18, Isa 9:6, Col 1:19-20, Isa 26:3-4

Elohim- Creator, Preserver, Transcendent, Mighty and Strong (used 2,570 times in OT)

• Elohim is a plural noun (more then two; ie. reffering to The Trinity) When Daniel and Jonah write, they use Elohim almost exclusively
• Gen. 17:7, 6:18, 9:15, 50:24; I Kings 8:23; Jer. 31:33; Isa. 40:1

El Shaddai- God is all Sufficient, God is Almighty, God is Self Sufficient

• El Shaddai is used 31 times in the book of Job. I find this the most interesting of God's names, because He reffers to Himself as "El Shaddai," God self-sufficient, but refers to idols, and pagan gods as "sheddim." Sheddim simply means "not god," and later became a root for the hebrew word for demons. El Shaddai has no craftsman, no goldsmith, relies on absolutely nobody and nothing for His existance, and calls any other form of "god" Shaddim; not self-sufficient.
• Gen. 17:1, 2, Gen. 31:29, 49:24, 25; Prov. 3:27; Micah 2:1; Isa. 60:15, 16, 66:10-13; Ruth 1:20, 21, Rev. 16:7

Adonai- Master, Lord

• Adonai is plural, the singular would be "adon." It is always in plural form when reffering to God, and shows up as "Lord" in our Bibles. Not to be confused with "LORD" which is used to refer to "Yahweh" or "Jehovah." When is appears in its singular form, "adon," it is used to refer to a human lord or king. (adon is used 215 times in the OT to refer to men.)
• Gen. 15:2, Ex. 4:10; Judges 6:15; 2 Sam. 7:18-20; Ps. 8, 114:7, 135:5, 141:8, 109:21-28
• Exekiel and Daniel use the word "Adonai" alot

Jehovha Nissi- The Lord our Banner

• God on the battlefield, from word which means "to glisten," "to lift up,"
• Ex 17:15, Psalm 4:6

Jehovah M'kaddesh- The Lord Who Sanctifies

• "To make whole, set apart for holiness." The Lord says: "Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God. Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord, who makes you holy." (Leviticus 20:7-8)

Jehovah Rahi- The Lord our Shepherd

• Psa. 23, 79:13, 95:7, 80:1, 100:3; Gen. 49:24; Isa. 40:11

Jehovah Sabaoth- The Lord of Hosts

• The commander of the angels and the armies of God
• Isa. 1:24; Psa. 46:7, 11; 2 Kings 3:9-12; Jer. 11:20, Rom. 9:29; James 5:4, Rev. 19: 11-16

El Elyon- The Most High

• Deut. 26:19, 32:8; Psa. 18:13; Gen. 14:18; Nu. 24:16; Psa. 78:35, 7:17, 18:13, 97:9, 56:2, 78:56, 18:13; Dan. 7:25, 27; Isa. 14:14.