What are the
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Question: What are the names for God? Where can I get the best information on the different titles?

Answer: God is a generic name meaning deity. It can refer to the REAL God or false gods. Jesus told us to be very careful that we do not worship the wrong Christ with false doctrine.

"For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." (Matthew 24:24)

"For false christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." (Mark 13:22)

Most of the names given to us in the Bible are not personal names but titles or functions. Even the unpronounceable YHVH translates as the Eternal One who preserves what he creates as Frank T. Seekins shows us in his little booklet Hebrew Word Pictures published in 1996. Other variations of this title are I AM or I AM who I will be. A personal name does not always show a person's function and we will not likely be aware of his true personal name until the resurrection.

"He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more.  And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God.  And I will write on him My new name. " (Revelation 3:12)

Remembering that Jesus the Christ or Messiah of the New Testament is the same being as YHVH or JHVH of the Old Testament who created Adam and Eve and spoke to Abram and Sarai and their family etc. we know this is the only God with whom humans have become acquainted since Creation. Until Jesus came, no one knew the Father. References to him are oblique in the Old Testament as the ‘Ancient of Days’ or even YHVH as well.

"All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him." (Matthew 11:27)

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. . . .

"He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

"As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. Both were God and both were Eternal Ones with out father or mother, beginning or ending." (John 1:1-2, 10-14, 10:15)

The below names, titles and references come from Nave's Topical Bible. You can add to the below list the following references to God's name:

"If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you." (Exodus 15:26)

Another missing reference in the below list is the El Shaddai title which means "God of my Provision" or "Almighty God."

"When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, 'I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.' " (Genesis 17:1)

Thank you for your question about the names for God.