Genesis 12.8, Exodus 6.2-3.
Here’s a bible difficulty which tends to stymie a number of
Genesis 12.8 ESV - From there [Avram] moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the L
ORD and called upon the name of the LORD . Exodus 6.2-3 ESV - 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the L
ORD . 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.”
God, the Creator, is identified as the L
Genesis 2.4 ESV - These are the generations
- of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
- in the day that the L
ORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Throughout that book, the author of Genesis calls God “the L
But in Exodus, this specific God tells Moses that Abraham, and all the Hebrews since, didn’t know him by that name Y
Despite all the many, many instances of Y
But biblical literalists insist, on the contrary, it was revealed. It’s in Genesis, after all. People called the L
Genesis 4.26 ESV - To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the L
ORD .
Seth was the son of Adam, the very first human; so all the way back then it looks like people identified the name of their Creator as Y
Yes of course literalists have an answer. It’s that the L