The God is not the Name of The God

‘The God’ is not The God’s name and in the book of Genesis chapter 4, verse 26 reads, ‘At that time, men began to invoke the Lord by name.’ The ‘time’ being referred to occurs after Eve gave birth to her son, Seth, a name meaning Granted for as she said, ‘God has granted me another son in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.’ When Seth had a son, he named him Enosh and at this time according to the mentioned verses, the name of the Lord began to be invoked.
However, according to Islam, the earliest mention of the name of God is found in the Koran Sura 2, The Cow: “When your Lord said to the angels: ‘I am placing on the earth one that shall rule as My deputy,’ they replied: ‘Will You put there one that will do evil and shed blood, when we have for so long sung Your praises and sanctified Your Name?” It would appear that the angels held some reservations about this proposal and it would seem likely that in responding to this suggestion only a response with significant gravitas would be offered. If this conclusion is valid then the angels immediately considered the declaration of the Name of God of paramount importance.
It is only fairly recently that it’s been determined that life on earth probably exceeds 3.4 billion years. If there is any likelihood that the creation of the angels predates the creation of life, then the phrase ‘so long’ becomes a rather amazing
understatement. However, at the time of the birth of Moses, there is no indication that mankind knew the Name any longer.
Perhaps an argument could be made that the knowledge of God’s name, mentioned so early at the inception of human life, may have been lost at the time of Noah when only he and a few of his relatives survived the flood. In any case, Moses revealed that he did not know the name of God, by asking that he be informed of it when he found himself speaking directly with God. This indicated that none of the Egyptians had knowledge of it either, since Moses was educated by the teachers and scholars of the royal family of Pharaoh and, were the Name known, he would have been informed of it.
Well before of the birth of Moses the Egyptians, as well as other societies, were attempting to record spoken language with the use of materials to preserve ideas in a permanent form. The earliest records of these attempts are considered to be the etchings on cave walls, but the Egyptians had advanced well beyond those primitive efforts.
The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek adjective (hieroglyphikos), a compound of (hierós ‘sacred’) and (glýphō ‘\: carve, engrave’; see glyph) essentially ‘sacred carving’, in turn a loan translation of Egyptian mdw•w-nṯr (medu-netjer) ‘god’s words.’
The Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty II) is often combined with Dynasty I under the group title Early Dynastic Period. It dates approximately from 2890 to 2686 BC. In the era of the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom, about 800 hieroglyphs existed. The first full sentence written in hieroglyphs, so far discovered was found on a seal impression found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen at Umm el-Qa’ab, which dates from the Second Dynasty.
The Egyptian hieroglyphic script contained 24 uniliterals (symbols that stood for single consonants, much like letters in English). It would have been possible to write all Egyptian words in the manner of these signs, but the Egyptians never did so and never simplified their complex writing into a true alphabet.
In the latest chronology it is Khaneferre Sobekhotep IV who was the Pharaoh at the time of Moses’ birth (he began his reign about 1529 BC). Somehow over these many hundreds of years, the concept of the possibility of this simplification never occurred, and it was Dudimose who was Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus of Moses beginning his reign somewhere between 1457 and 1444 BC. Hieroglyphics remained the Egyptians’ only manner of writing and their number of symbols would continue to grow to over 5,000 making general literacy pragmatically impossible.
Within the lifetime of Dudimose, Moses gained knowledge of the Name of God and would succeed in writing it down. While leading a flock along the side of the wilderness he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of God appeared to him in the flame of a burning bush and told him that He was sending him to Pharaoh so that he could bring Israel out of Egypt.
As recorded in Exodus Moses said to God, ‘If I go to the Israelites and tell them that the God of their forefathers has sent me to them, and they ask me His name, what shall I say?’
God answered, ‘A E I O U that is who I am. Tell them that A E I has sent you to them.’ And God said further, ‘You must tell the Israelites this that it is A E I O U, the God of their forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, who has sent you to them. This is my name for ever; this is my title in every generation.’ God spoke to Moses and said, ‘I am A E I. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai. But I did not let myself be known to them by my name A E I.”
When Moses attempted to pronounce A E I ’s name he realized that due to his condition which was described as a harelip, he was not able to do so correctly. He said, ‘Allah, I have never been a man of ready speech, never in my life, not even now that thou hast spoken to me. I am slow and hesitant of speech.’
A E I said to him, ‘Who is it that gives a man speech? Who makes him dumb or deaf? Who makes him clear-sighted or blind? Is it not I, A E I ? Go now; I will help your speech and tell you what to say.’ But Moses still protested, ‘No, Lord, send whom thou will.’
At this, A E I grew angry with Moses and said, ‘Have you not a brother, Aaron the Levite? He, I know, will do all the speaking. He is already on his way out to meet you, and he will be glad indeed to see you. You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; I will help both of you to speak and tell you both what to do. He will do all the speaking to the people for you, he will be the mouthpiece, and you will be the god he speaks for.’
After this, Moses with Aaron, came to Pharaoh and said, ‘These are the words of Allah, the god of Israel: “Let My people go so that they may keep my pilgrim feast in the wilderness.”
‘Who is Allah?’ asked Pharaoh, ‘that I should obey Him and let Israel go? I care nothing for Allah, and I tell you I will not let Israel go.’ None of the Egyptians including Pharaoh had ever heard of any god by this name before.
Moses repeated these words to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him; they had become impatient because of their cruel slavery. Then A E I spoke to Moses and said, ‘Go tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to set the Israelites free to leave his country.’ Moses made answer in the presence of A E I , ‘If the Israelites do not listen to me, how will Pharaoh listen to such a halting speaker as I am?’
Thus A E I spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them their commission to the Israelites and to Pharaoh, namely that they should bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
Then A E I said to Moses, ‘One last plague I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt. After that he will let you go.’
Moses then said, ‘These are the words of Allah: “At midnight I will go out among the Egyptians. Every first born creature in the land of Egypt shall die : the first born of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, the first born of the slave girl at the hand mill, and all the first born of the cattle. All Egypt will send up a great cry of anguish, a cry the like of which has never been heard before, nor ever will be again. But among all Israel not a dog’s tongue shall be so much as scratched, no man or beast be hurt.” ‘Thus you shall know that Allah makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. Then all these courtiers of yours will come down to me, prostrate themselves and cry, “Go away, you and all the people who follow at your heels.” After that I will go away.’
Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, ‘God at once and get sheep for your families and slaughter the Passover. Then take a bunch of marjoram, dip it in the blood in the basin and smear some blood on the lintel and the two door posts. Allah will go through Egypt and strike it, but when he sees the blood on the lintel and the two door posts, He will pass over that door and will not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.’
The people bowed down and prostrated themselves. The Israelites went and did all the A E I had commanded Moses and Aaron; and by midnight A E I had struck down every first born from Pharaoh on his throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and the first born of cattle. Before night was over Pharaoh rose, he and all his courtiers and all the Egyptians, and a great cry of anguish went up, because not a house in Egypt was without its dead. Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron while it was still dark and said, ‘Up with you. Be off and leave my people, you and your Israelites. Go and worship Allah as you ask.’ Due to the universal catastrophe, all of the Egyptian survivors became aware of the name Allah as Moses had declared.
In the third month after Israel had left Egypt, they came to the wilderness of Sinai. Then He said to Moses, ‘Come up to AEI, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel. While you are still at a distance, you are to bow down; and then Moses shall approach A E I by himself, but not the others.’
A E I said to Moses, ‘Come up to me on the mountain, stay there and let me give you the tablets of stone, the law and the commandment, which I have written down that you may teach them.’ Moses arose with Joshua his assistant and went up the mountain of God; he said to the elders, ‘Wait for us here until we come back to you. You have Aaron and Hur; if anyone has a dispute, let him go to them’. So Moses went up the mountain and a cloud covered the mountain for six days; on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the cloud. The glory of A E I looked to the Israelites like a devouring fire on the mountain top. Moses entered the cloud and went up the mountain; there stayed forty days and forty nights.
When He had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, A E I gave him the two tablets of the Tokens, tablets of stone written with the finger of God. But A E I said to Moses, ‘Go down at once, for your people, the people you brought up from Egypt, have done a disgraceful thing; so quickly have they turned aside form the way I commanded them. They have made themselves an image of a bull calf, they have prostrated themselves before it, sacrificed to it and said, “These are your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from Egypt.”’
Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Tokens in his hands, inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the handiwork of God and the writing was God’s writing, engraved on the tablets.
Joshua, hearing the uproar the people were making, said to Moses, ‘Listen. There is fighting in the camp.’
Moses replied, ‘This is not the clamor of warriors, nor the clamor of a defeated people. It is the sound of singing that I hear.’
As he approached the camp, Moses saw the bull calf and the dancing, and he was angry; he flung the tablets down, and they were shattered to pieces at the foot of the mountain. In little more than an instant the key to a functional alphabet and the evidence of the disclosure of the Name of A E I O U was reduced to worthless stones.
A E I spoke to Moses: ‘Come, go up from here, you and the people you have brought up from Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give to their prosperity. I will bring you to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not journey in your company, for fear that I annihilate you on the way, for you are a stubborn people.’
Moses used to take a tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. When Moses entered it, the pillar of cloud came down, and stayed at the entrance to the tent while  A E I spoke with Moses. As soon as the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would all prostrate themselves, every man at the entrance of his tent.
A E I said, ‘Here is a place beside me. Take your stand on the rock and when my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.’
A E I said to Moses, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you broke in pieces. Then in the morning go up Mount Sinai; and stand and wait for me there on the top.’ So Moses cut two stone  tablets like the first,  and he rose  early in the  morning  and went up Mount Sinai as    A E I had commanded, taking the two stone tablets in his hands. And A E I came down in the cloud and took his place beside him and pronounced the name A E I.   Moses made haste, bowed to the ground and prostrated himself.
A E I said, ‘Here and now I make a covenant. You shall not prostrate yourselves to any other god. For A E I O U the name of a jealous god, and He is a jealous god. Write these words down, because the covenant I make with you and with Israel is in these words.’ So Moses stayed there with A E I forty days and forty nights, neither eating nor drinking, and wrote down Ten Commands, on the tablets. At length Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two stone tablets in his hands and restored the evidence of a fully functional alphabet and conveyed the eternal key by which mankind could open the door of literacy and impart the skill of reading and writing to the entire human race.
By the time the Israelites were allowed out of the wilderness about forty years later, the new generation possessed the gift of literacy and had become the ‘People of the Book.’ The Egyptians would be left waiting till the time of Christ thousands of years later for a functional alphabet
Most of the Jews refused to interact with the people of the region but gradually dialog occurred to the extent that the Phoenicians adopted the full alphabet from the people of the book along with the missing key which continued to evade Egyptian society. In fact ultimately it was the Phoenicians who were given most of the credit for developing the concept of the alphabet which allowed infinite creation of words using vowels, the essence of God’s name.
The Egyptians had only been exposed to the pronunciation Allah as expressed to them publicly by Moses and the calamity associated with the introduction of Allah secured its use and memory until the present day. The pronunciation ‘IAH’ and the vowel representation of ‘a e i o u’ was conveyed and explained by Aaron and the Levites but only to the Jews. So the Egyptian culture stagnated while the Israelites came to possess the first book in history and of course the only one at that time using phonetics, thereby earning the title ‘People of the Book.’
There is no indisputable evidence to suggest exactly when and why the Jews determined that they would not convey God’s name. The writer of Psalms in Chapter 8 begins by stating, ‘O, A E I our sovereign how glorious is Thy name in all the earth. Thy majesty is praised high as the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes, of infants at the breast Thou hast fashioned praise for Thyself,’ and here confirms the prophets now knew how A E I had secured praise beyond the knowledge of the angels who wondered about mankind’s creation.
It had been written that, ‘Thou shall not possess the name of A E I your God in vain. A E I will not leave unpunished he who exposes His name to abuse.’ It is a certainty, however, that they did omit all of the vowels from all their scripts replacing those vowels with apostrophes, dashes, or nothing at all. Eventually the Jews began to regard writing down the name of God or even any element of it not only as a possible offense to God but more importantly as an offense to their priestly position. By the time Solomon’s Temple was complete the Jewish priests were able to restrict the mention of God’s Name to a member of their class and to only a single time each year. Estimates indicate King Solomon’s Temple was constructed a bit less than 1,000 years before the life of the Messiah.
Nevertheless, many Jewish families had already begun to incorporate the name of God into their daily life by giving their children names such as Jeremiah and Nehemiah and many of the Jewish prophets were named with the same technique. These various names continue to be found commonly everywhere today.
All the while the Phoenicians, as they traveled by sea, slowly exported knowledge of the full alphabet including the vowels to their clients at the various distant ports of the Mediterranean Sea. There is no evidence that these sailors had any particular interest in the name of God, they merely desired the advantages of written communication and literacy began to take hold.
Ultimately, the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their own language. The letters of the Greek alphabet are the same as those of the Phoenician alphabet, and both alphabets are arranged in the same order. Several varieties of the Greek alphabet developed. One, known as Western Greek or Chalcidian, is found west of Athens and in southern Italy. The other variation, known as Eastern Greek, was used in present-day Turkey and by the Athenians, and eventually the rest of the world, that spoke Greek, adopted this variation. At first imitating the Phoenicians who wrote as did the Jews from right to left, the Greeks eventually chose to write from left to right and this version is the source for all the modern scripts of Europe.
During the life of Nebuchadnezzar who reigned 605 BC – 562 BC the Jews were dispersed into Egypt and in chapter 44, the prophet Jeremiah declared, ‘These are the words of A E I the God of Israel, “I have sworn by my great name, says A E I, that my name shall never again be on the lips of Judah; they shall no longer swear in Egypt, ‘As A E I lives.’”
Nearly another six hundred years would go by until the last prophet, Yahushua, son of Mary, was sent to the Jews. By this time the larger Jewish society was in a state of near complete decay. Aramaic was the predominant spoken language while both Hebrew and Greek were used by the literate people inhabiting the region.
Once again there was nowhere on earth where the name of A E I was sanctified. Before his ascension, however, the Messiah is quoted as saying in John 17, ‘I have made Thy name known to the men whom Thou hast given me out of the world. They were thine and Thou gavest them to me, and they have obeyed Thy command. . . Although the world does not know Thee, I know Thee, and these men know that Thou didst send me. I made Thy name known to them, and will make it known.’
Although the literacy rate among Jews was the highest on earth, none of the other societies showed evidence of a rate of literacy for men much above 25 per cent. It may be that the percent for women would have been roughly a quarter of that. Recorded history for the masses is considered essentially to have begun during the lifetime of Yahushua. From that point literacy was promoted slowly and the process advanced although the Chinese notably continue to attempt to relay on a vast mosaic of symbols which has not yet been replaced.
Before he left the Messiah also stated, ‘I tell you the truth; it is for your good that I am leaving you. If I do not go, your Advocate will not come, whereas if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will confute the world, and show where wrong and right and judgment lie. There is still much that I could say to you, but the burden would be too great for you now. However, when he comes who is the Essence of truth, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but will tell only what he hears; and will make known to you the things that are coming.’
So with the passage of yet another six hundred years the final conversation from God to mankind began with the words to Muhammad, ‘Recite in the name of your Lord who created, created man from globules. Recite! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful One, who by the pen taught man what he did not know.’
Here then is the start of the guide to all the truth, beginning with the reminder of the creation of the Stone Tablets written by A E I himself conveying His name which for the previous billions of years had left the angels in awe. ‘This is my name for ever; this is my title in every generation.’ A E I O U akbar.