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Chaim
I asked What is this "one name" worthy of worship?
Aad answered:
The Name is: the Name of the Father, the Word and the Spirit. That Name is 'I am there for you'.

................I've never heard such a thing ............Are you serious that this is the "one name worthy of worship"? Aad, are you usually this cryptic around other people?


Chaim, What I answered you is ABC of Christian Catechism. Christians are baptised in the Name (not Names) of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Ghost : that One Name is worthy of worship. And His Name is: I am; or I am there for you, or I am who I am: the probable meaning of the four letters. This cannot be new to you? (I don't know what kind of Christianity you met, but I'm afraid it is the American dominant evangelical/pentecostal/chiliastic kind of Christianity).

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Chaim
Aad: I don't think one is required to pray to God through Jesus. Although: what is meant by 'through Jesus' or 'in the name of Jesus' ? Is it not: in accordance with the Will of God(righteousness and mercy)?

Aad, what does that mean? Are you required to worship only the father? How do the holy ghost and Jesus fit into your worship?


IMV (in my view) worship is equally directed towards the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
There is an ancient prayer:
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit....
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Because Jesus, from Christian perspective, is the 'incarnation' of Gods Righteousness, praying in His Name means the prayer should be in accordance with Him, that is with Righteousness. It is not a matter of the 'magic' words "in Jesus name". In themselves the words are irrelevant: one can not simply pray for 'a mercedes benz' in Jesus name, and then expect results.

Aad