# What is God's name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 17, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036 "2003-03-17T17:07:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/61 "2003-04-08T01:17:03Z")
“Uncreated existence and non-contingency” is pretty much beyond me to translate, and I believe that phrase was in English 😉 Thankyou **Polycarp** you are a treasure. ---
**Author:** ![leechow09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@leechow09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechow09)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/62 "2003-04-08T01:44:41Z")
It’s Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/63 "2003-04-08T06:37:56Z")
In Spanish, God’s name is Soy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/64 "2003-04-08T19:22:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*\*\* but rather “I am that I am” – with the connotation of absoluteness – “That Which Has Absolute Existence” might be a noun-phrase way to render that Hebrew idiom. \*\* I’m not sure if you’re right or wrong, but I know (because I just read her book) that Karen Armstrong disagrees with you. In “A History of God”, she argues that the phrase is intended to be self-referential and meaningless…the same way that you could answer the question, “Where did he go” as “He went where he went.” Ultimately an answer like that means “Don’t ask me that question, I’m not going to tell you the answer”. She says that later on, though, people interpreted the answer as a metaphysical one touching on the nature of God, as you’ve suggested. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/65 "2003-04-09T06:31:13Z")
Michael Jordan ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/66 "2003-04-09T10:00:27Z")
I’m sorry I was away from my desk when you called. I took a long lunch. Now, what was it that you wanted? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/67 "2003-04-09T23:20:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jehovah68 \* > \*\*I’m sorry I was away from my desk when you called. I took a long lunch. Now, what was it that you wanted? \*\* Sorry, but your version of the Name is now considered a solecism. But while I’ve got your attention, would you please do something about the offensive attitudes of your Witnesses? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/68 "2003-04-11T22:25:37Z")
\*Billy, Billy Bo, illy Banana, Fanna, Foe. Filly Fee, Fie, Moe, Milly Billy - a handy link for the goys, ‘splains’ the name much better than i would -[Cite](http://www.jewfaq.org/name.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/69 "2003-06-23T23:00:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thudlow Boink \* > \*\*What is the name of our Universe? \*\* [Earth-R](http://www.io.com/~woodward/chroma/atminor.html#Earth-Reality) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036/70 "2003-06-24T00:57:08Z")
Seeing as how this thread got resurrected anyway, [a link to discussions in GQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=3605981#post3605981) might be appropriate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gods-name/162036.md?page=3)