(June 5, 2016 at 4:40 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: I'm not really sure that you've told us why names are important.
Names are just a praise of God and then knowing that when you are praising him with that praise, that praise exists in a way that unites all other praises.
The praises of God are always done in a way that we know that which is praised unites all other praises. That is why his names are said to be all-beautiful. Because they all unite all beauty.
They are important in this discussion, in that, we can recognize the following the two: Names as attributes and characteristics, or names as functions or ways of God. For example, "God guides to the truth" is a praise of God, and God is the guide to the truth, and that which is manifested in that praise, when applied to God, and God is recognized through it, we always remember that ultimate source of all praise and greatness, that unites all praise and greatness.
This also essential to recognize in that all creation rights are then derived from God's truth and everything is created by the truth of God's holy names and attributes.
The form we take and our uniqueness is all relative, and our value and worth and measurement, depends on the extent of the descent of his names and what level we have of them and our degrees of knowledge of them.
They have been called "Signs of God" more then they have been called "Names of God" in Quran, but essentially the face of God or the name of God unites all names and signs of God.
