I once studied various world religions and learned that the Muslims have 99 names for God, or Allah as they call Him. They beleive that if they know these names, they will enter paradise. At the time, I thought 99 names was a bit excessive, but recently, I've been noticing the names that we use for Christ. There are a lot. Just think of Christmas songs alone, and there are probably a few you cannot list without singing them (ex, Wonderful Counselor).
So, as an activity for Family Home Evening last night, I decided to see if we could list a name or title of Christ for each letter of the alphabet. It started out like that, but as we were enjoying the activity and trying to find names for the hard letters, we ended up with a list of 100 names. And that wasn't listing all of the names listed in the Bible Dictionary. Here's our list:
- Advocate
- Atoning One
- Almighty God
- Anointed One
- Author of our Salvation
- Author and Finisher of our Faith
- Alpha and Omega
- Bright and Morning star
- Eldest Brother
- Bridegroom
- Bread of Life
- Branch
- Beloved Son of God
- Chosen of God
- Consolation of Israel
- Christ
- Creator
- Cornerstone
- Captain of our Salvation
- Carpenter
- Deliverer
- Divine Redeemer
- Everlasting Father
- Emmanuel
- Father
- Fountain of Living Waters
- Fountain of Everlasting Life
- Foreordained
- Firstborn
- Governor
- Great Jehovah
- Good Shepard
- God of the whole Earth
- Heir
- Head of the Church
- Holy Infant
- Most high Priest
- Holy One
- Hope of Glory
- I am
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus of Galilee
- The Just one
- Judge
- Jehovah
- Jew
- King of Kings
- King of the Jews
- Lord
- Lord of hosts
- Lord of the Saboath
- Lord of Lords
- Living bread
- Lamb of God
- Light of the World
- Messenger of the Covenant
- Messiah
- Mediator
- Master
- Meek and Lowly
- Nazarene
- Newborn King
- Only-Begotten Son
- Prince of Peace
- Prophet
- Judge of the Quick and the Dead
- Redeemer
- Rabboni
- Rabbi
- Rock
- Ressurection and the Life
- Savior
- Shepard
- Son of God
- Son of Man
- Son of Abraham
- Son of Mary
- Son of David
- Seed of the woman
- Shiloh
- Stem of Jesse
- Wondrous Stranger
- Servant
- Teacher
- Undefiled
- Lord of the Vineyard
- One true Vine
- Wonderful Counselor
- Word
- the Way, the Truth and the Life
- Exemplar
- the same Yesterday, Today and Forever
- Yaweh
- King of Zion
- Light
- Seed of Abraham
- Seed of David
- Counselor
- Holy Anointed One
It was really interesting to look at this list and see how much He has done, is doing and will do for us. And how broad the scope, from humble Carpenter to Creator of the world. From Holy Infant to Redeemer. It's really amazing, and something worth pondering. I'm thinking of making this into a quiet book for my kids to use during Sacrament meeting. Can you think of any more names we missed?
