Is Father a name?

Originally Posted by mfblume

Nice try. Who never heard of someone speaking "Father, what is your name?"?

God is not 'someone' he is soverign and is entitled to take titles, verbs or even weird words for his name if he want's to. His covenant name is 'I AM that I AM' (Exodus 3:14-15), well nobody is called that are they, but you see MF, God isn't just anybody, HE'S SOVERIGN and neither you nor I have the right to tell him that he can't take a verb for his name. Yahweh by the way is derived by I AM that I AM. At Isaiah 9:6 'wonderful' is a name as is 'comforter' well, I'd agree with you that in our culture such words can't be names, but you see God is soverign and we're not to stand over him and command him telling him what he can or can't do. he has taken these names because they tell us something about himself. Father and Son are as you say titles, but God is soverign, and if he wishes to use such titles as names, because they help us to understand something about him, then he have to be teachable and humble. We're not to stand over God and tell him that he can only bve what we understand him to be, God is not limited by our knowledge, culture and brainpower.