Did you know that God's name is so sacred that Catholics aren't allowed to say it in certain contexts?

So in today's episode, we'll examine the 3,000-year-old mystery of God's name when it can and can't be said,

and which religious groups still misunderstand God's name and identity today.

Now, right off the bat, you should know God's personal name isn't God, just as the president's personal name isn't

Mr. President. The word God comes from an old German word meaning the invoked one. Now, a believer

can use the title God as a kind of name and refer to God in that way, such as in the liturgy

of the hours when we pray, oh God, come to my assistance, oh Lord, make haste to help me. But scripture reveals God's personal name in Exodus chapter 3, when it describes Moses encountering God in the burning bush. It says, then Moses said to God, if I come to the people of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, his name what shall i say to them god said to moses

i am who i am and he said say this to the people of israel i am has sent me to you the phrase i am who i am is

a a in hebrew in verse 15 the word rendered i am comes from four consonants rendered Y H-W-H in English.

Most scholars believe this word NAA come from the same root haya, which means to be.

In John 858, Jesus uses the divine name to describe himself because he says,

Truly, truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am, or in Greek, Ego

A me. In earlier parts of the Old Testament, God's personal name was spoken frequently,

but after the Babylonian captivity, Jewish people became much more hesitant to say God's name

for fear of breaking the Second Commandment. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God

in vain, for the Lord will not hold the name of the Lord your God in vain,

for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

The Talmud records a tradition that the high priest only uttered God's name

once a year during Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek,

the word Curios, or Lord, was often used in place of the divine name. By the time of

Jesus' ministry, this was a widespread practice with the Hebrew word for Lord, Adonai, replacing God's

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