Does God care what we choose to name ourselves

[pierhogunn]

Just looking at an earlier post by DUD where he gives his brother's name, while asking for prayers, and that got me to thinkning

The name that we use is the name that our parents saw fit to give us upon our birth, or a name we chose...

Does this name mean anything to God, when God thinks about me, does he think, "Gee, I wonder why Dan thought he could get away with that"

I do understand that there are those who do not believe in a Supreme being, or what not, but I am sorta tired today, and my mind wandered onto this topic, and I thought, why not let the Stand Up Philosophers over here take a swing at this one...

[Knottscott]

It seems that whenever God did have a specific name in mind he let the parents know ahead of time, and if they got it wrong, Jesus corrected it in the 2nd half.

[ironhat]

It seems that whenever God did have a specific name in mind he let the parents know ahead of time, and if they got it wrong, Jesus corrected it in the 2nd half.

!!

[Ed62]

Hi 999,098,752,099,167,983,

Maybe God just goes by numbers. But you'll have to wait a while till you can ask him yourself.

Ed

[DonHo]

Well I haven't had any burning bush conversations with God and I don't know if he thinks of me as Don or not, however I'm quite sure when someone uses my name to lift me up in prayers he knows who they are praying for. In the same way, I'm sure when I ask for prayer for an "unspoken" reason, he knows what I need. He is God after all.

DonHo

[Knottscott]

Well I haven't had any burning bush conversations with God and I don't know if he thinks of me as Don or not, however I'm quite sure when someone uses my name to lift me up in prayers he knows who they are praying for. In the same way, I'm sure when I ask for prayer for an "unspoken" reason, he knows what I need. He is God after all.

DonHo

Yeah...afterall, omnipotence does have some benefits!

[dkhoward]

hmmm . . . I guess I don't really care what God calls me, as long as he calls me home when the time is right!

[billwmeyer]

Number is right

Numbers must be right, because when your number is up its all over.
Bill

[mater]

hmmm . . . I guess I don't really care what God calls me, as long as he calls me home when the time is right!

Amen to that.

[DonHo]

Yeah...afterall, omnipotence does have some benefits!

Well I'm sure omnipotence does have a lot of benefits but in this case I think it's omniscience that would be of more use

DonHo

[Knottscott]

Well I'm sure omnipotence does have a lot of benefits but in this case I think it's omniscience that would be of more use

DonHo

Ha! That was the word I was looking for, but couldn't spell it to look it up and check the definition!

[scorrpio]

I'll answer from a programmer's standpoint. When you write a program, you might call a given variable 'X', in order to have convenient reference to it. But when said program is compiled into a binary executable, all those names are discarded, and are replaced with physical memory addresses.

God operates on machine language level. Every soul has its physical memory address, and whatever referral aliases we use for the sake of convenience are of no consequence.