Is There MAGIC in The NAME? - Clint C Zimmerman - November-December 1972

Clint C Zimmerman

Without realizing it, the Hebrew names advocates may be falling into an ancient error which led the pagans into superstition and magic! THERE was a primitive belief that to know a name gives power over its bearer - even when it was God Himself. The superstition prevailed that when a man uttered the name of a god and then demanded or asked something, it would be fulfilled because he spoke the name. "Men can have this magical power over the god only because. . . the name is essentially linked with the one who bears it. Of both men and gods it is finally true that the name contains mana (supernatural force or power). The name is thus a power which is very closely associated with the bearer and which discloses his nature. Pronouncement or invocation of the name sets in operation the energy potentially in him" (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, vol. V. p. 243). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library