What does God want to be called?

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has just approved a new phrase to describe the Triune God. Along with “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” the PCUSA has voted to use the phrase “compassionate mother, beloved child, and life-giving womb.”

Other contestants such as "Rainbow, Ark and Dove," "Speaker, Word and Breath," "Overflowing Font, Living Water and Flowing River," “Sun, Light and Burning Ray," "Giver, Gift and Giving," "Lover, Beloved and Love," "Rock, Cornerstone and Temple," "Fire that Consumes, Sword that Divides and Storm that Melts Mountains," and "The One Who Was, The One Who Is and The One Who Is to Come” put up a good fight, but in the end they couldn’t match the creativity and genius of “compassionate mother, beloved child, and life-giving womb.”

The concept of the Trinity has been a major doctrine of orthodox Christianity since the beginning. It deals directly with the nature of God, and the Gospel can’t be understood fully without it. It teaches that they are not three separate Gods, and that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not secondary or created gods that are subordinate to the Father. It teaches that God has always existed as a Trinity, and that each are distinct but inseparable persons that are fully and equally God.

These new names for the Trinity don’t do a good job at conveying the nature of God. Most of them don’t make a lick of sense and the others do a good job of confusing you and can give you the wrong idea about God’s nature.

Take "The One Who Was, The One Who Is and The One Who Is to Come” for example. It can give you the idea that they are separate gods that exist at different times, instead of the three persons of the Trinity that are coexistent and coeternal. And how can anyone believe that "Rainbow, Ark and Dove" is a reference to the Trinity.

It seems that some women somewhere were offended by God being portrayed as male, or maybe it was some men who were concerned that women could get offended. Anyway, so what do they do? They give Him a new name since the Bible was written long ago and our society is different from the society back then, forgetting that God has called himself Father, and that the language He used to describe himself was not feminine but masculine.

I am not saying that God is a male. I am just saying that God has the right to name himself, not us. Everything that we know about God has been revealed to us by Him, not something we have made up or come up with.

Anyway here is an article you can check out, and their website.