Cheryl Schatz

Mark,

You asked:

Kay and CHeryl answer this…did God lie in Exodus 6:3- your view said he did…thats a big problem. If we cant get this right how do we expect to get Gen 1-3 right?

Exo 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.

I already dealt with this, but since you don’t appear to understand me I will try again. I admitted my error in thinking that Eve could not have known God’s name or else Abraham would have known it. It was my error not God’s. Moses came after Abraham so his inspired writing about Eve’s knowledge of YHWH was done after Abraham.

Exodus 6:3 then shows that indeed God did not reveal to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob His own name – not by word of by His written word.

Genesis 1 – 3 is accurate as well. Anything that we do not understand completely is not God’s error but ours. God did not add His own name into Eve’s quote just as He did not add it into Genesis 1. It is a moot point. God is just fine with us calling Him God, LORD God, LORD of Hosts, etc. He did not discipline Moses for getting it wrong by not putting LORD in chapter 1 of Genesis. This does not prove an error in Genesis. It proves your theory wrong.