ContradictionsReading order 519Bible context 5 min read
What is God's name?
The passages use multiple divine names and descriptive titles, but they do not generally claim that only one designation can apply.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Multiple divine names and descriptive titles do not conflict without an assertion that only one designation can apply.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
God was known to the ancestors as God Almighty
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.
Exodus 6:3
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Exodus 6
God identifies his name as the Lord
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 42:8
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Isaiah 42