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Puritan Board Post-Graduate
In Exodus 6:3 (ESV), God said, "I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them." But in Genesis 15:7 (ESV), "And he [God] said to him [Abraham], 'I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.'"
In the former verse, God states that He did not reveal Himself to Abraham by the name YHWH, but in the latter, He clearly did. What's the traditional interpretation of these two verses in light of each other?
In the former verse, God states that He did not reveal Himself to Abraham by the name YHWH, but in the latter, He clearly did. What's the traditional interpretation of these two verses in light of each other?