Friday, May 4, 2012

The Vulnerability of Names

When Moses first met God, he asked his name.  God replied, "Yahweh," an evasive response meaning, "I am who I am," which conveys the notion, "Don't ask."  Maybe God thought by having his name they might want to possess him.  He did not want them to have that access, but his son was different.  He was named and called.  He sought, rather than hid, an identity.  He tried to move beyond the limit into touchability, accumulating names as though they were titles.  He was Jesus, and Jew, and man.  He became vulnerable, by choice.  We might wonder did he thereby become more God than God had thus far been.

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