What Is Man That God Cares For Him? O LORD; Children Praising Jesus; He Ordained The Stars; the Son of Man; God or Angels; Who Rules?

1. Psalm 8
What Is Man
That God Cares For Him?
O LORD; Children Praising Jesus; He
Ordained The Stars; the Son of Man;
God or Angels; Who Rules?
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2. First Bible Verse On The Moon
• In July 1969, Apollo 11 carried the very first
Bible passage to the moon. The Vatican chose
it;
Psalm 8
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3. Let’s stand and read it;
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4. • ESV Psalm 8:1 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of
David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You
have set your glory above the heavens.
• 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established
strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
• 3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and
the stars, which you have set in place,
• 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you
care for him?
• 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and
crowned him with glory and honor.
• 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have
put all things under his feet,
• 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
• 8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes
along the paths of the seas.
• 9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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5. Psalm 8
What Is Man
That God Cares For Him?

7. What Is Man That God
Cares For Him?
• NAU Job 7:17 "What is man that You magnify
him, And that You are concerned about him,
• 18 That You examine him every morning And
try him every moment?
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8. “O LORD, our Lord …”
• NAU Psalm 8:1 For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm
of David. O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all
the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the
heavens!
• Psalm 8:1… “O LORD, our Lord”…
• A.W. Tozer has described the “Oh” as, “an exclamatory sound
that is hardly a word at all and that scarcely admits of
definition.” Tozer also said, “We Christians should watch lest
we lose the ‘Oh!’ from our hearts”. Let’s not lose the ‘Oh!’
from our adoration of God!…”
• “O LORD” = Awe, wonder, reverence
• “our Lord” = Personal (caring, providing)
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9. “O LORD, our Lord …”
• Psalm 8:1… “O LORD, our Lord”…
• NAU Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the
riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God! How unsearchable are His judgments and
unfathomable His ways!
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10. Psalm 8:2, Children Praising
• Psalm 8:2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes
You have established strength Because of Your
adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
• Has “the enemy and the revengeful cease” happened yet?
• “infants and nursing babes” established what?
• "Hosanna to the Son of David," …children are saying?”
• It also reminds me that God took a “nursing babe” and
established Him as “King of kings, and Lord of lords”

11. Psalm 8:2, Children Praising
• NAU Matthew 21:15 But when the chief priests and the scribes
saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children
who were crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the
Son of David," they became indignant, 16 and said to Him, "Do
You hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes;
have you never read, 'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing
babes Thou hast prepared praise for Thyself'?" 17 And He left
them…
• Wow! Hardened hearts
• Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who
substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who
substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

12. Psalm 8:3, He Counts The Stars
• NAU Psalm 8:3 When I consider Your heavens, the
work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which
You have ordained;
• Psalm 147:4 He counts the number of the stars; He
gives names to all of them.
• “He who counts the stars and calls them by their
names, is in no danger of forgetting His own
children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you
were the only creature He ever made, or the only
saint He ever loved.” C. H. Spurgeon

13. Psalm 8:3, He Ordained The Stars
• NAU Psalm 8:3… which You have ordained;
• <03559> ‫ּכּון‬kun )465c…
• Meaning: to be firm
• Usage: …appointed(1)… determined(1),
direct(3)… established(52)… formed(1)…
installed(1), made it ready(1), made
preparations(1), made provision(1),
made...preparations(1), made…,
prepared(37),…provided(5)

14. Psalm 8:4, “Son of Man?”
• NAU Psalm 8:4 What is man that You take thought of
him, And the son of man that You care for him?
• NAU Psalm 139:13 For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother's womb.
• NAU Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I
knew you, And before you were born I consecrated
you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
• NAU John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
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15. Psalm 8:4,
“What is
man?”
Why do we
place such a
high price on
human life?
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16. Psalm 8:4, “Son of Man?”
• NAU Psalm 8:4 What is man that You take
thought of him…?
• NAU Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood,
By man his blood shall be shed, For in the
image of God He made man.
• NAU 2 Corinthians 4:4 in whose case the god
of this world has blinded the minds of the
unbelieving so that they might not see the light
of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the
image of God. 16

17. Psalm 8:4, “Son of Man?”
• NAU Psalm 8:4 What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
• NAU Daniel 7:13 "I kept looking in the night visions, And
behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man
was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And
was presented before Him. 14 "And to Him was given
dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples,
nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His
dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass
away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.
• NAU 2 Corinthians 4:4 …the glory of Christ, who is the
image of God.
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18. Psalm 8:4, “What is man?”
The Cost Analysis
• What did it cost the Lord to create the heavens
and Earth?
• How much did it cost to redeem mankind?
• NAU 1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not
redeemed with perishable things like silver or
gold from your futile way of life inherited from
your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as
of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood
of Christ.
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19. Psalm 8:4, “What is man?”
The Cost Analysis
• If saving humans is that important to God, how
do you think he must feel about the over 3000
babies we murder in the womb every day?
• There is an appropriate quote, originally
spoken by Billy Graham, "If God doesn't judge
America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and
Gomorrah."
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20. Psalm 8:5, God or Angels?
• NAS NAU Psalm 8:5 Yet You have made him
[Christ] a little lower than God, And You crown him
with glory and majesty!
• KJG LXE NKJ KJV …the angels…
• NIV NIVO NET ESV …the heavenly beings…
• YLT Psalm 8:5 And causest him to lack a little of
Godhead…
• NJB …little less than a god…
• Well, which is it?
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21. God or Angels?
• NAS NAU Psalm 8:5 Yet You have made him a
little lower than God [elohiym], And You crown
him with glory and majesty!
• 0430 ‫ים‬ ִ‫ֹלה‬ֱ‫'א‬elohiym {el-o-heem'}
• Meaning: 1) (plural) 1a) rulers, judges 1b)
divine ones 1c) angels 1d) gods 2) (plural
intensive - singular meaning) 2a) god, goddess
2b) godlike one 2c) works or special
possessions of God 2d) the (true) God 2e) God
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22. Psalm 8:5, God or Angels?
• LXX Psalm 8:5…a little lower than angels [aggelos] …
• NAU Hebrews 2:5 For He did not subject to angels [aggelos] the world to come,
concerning which we are speaking. 6 But one has testified somewhere, saying,
"WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM? OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT
YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIM? 7 "YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE
WHILE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS [aggelos]; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH
GLORY AND HONOR, AND HAVE APPOINTED HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR
HANDS; 8 YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET." For in
subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now
we do not yet see all things subjected to him. 9 But we do see Him who was
made for a little while lower than the angels [aggelos], namely, Jesus, because of
the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of
God He might taste death for everyone. 10 For it was fitting for Him, for
whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons
to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.
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23. Psalm 8:6, Who Rules?
• NAU Psalm 8:6 You make him to rule over the works of
Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
• NAU 1 Corinthians 15:27 For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN
SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when He says, "All things
are put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who
put all things in subjection to Him. 28 When all things are
subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be
subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so
that God may be all in all.
• NAU Ephesians 1:22 And He put all things in subjection
under His [Christ] feet, and gave Him as head over all things
to the church,
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24. Psalm 8:6, Who Rules?
• NAU Hebrews 2:5 For He did not subject to angels the world to
come, concerning which we are speaking. 6 But one has testified
somewhere, saying, "WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM?
OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIM? 7
"YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN THE
ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR,
AND HAVE APPOINTED HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS; 8
YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET." For in
subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to
him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him. 9 But
we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the
angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned
with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste
death for everyone.
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25. Psalm 8:8, Fish
A shark guides migrating salmon
into the shallows off Baxter Cliffs
in Australia, April 1995.
PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ABELL,
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
NAU Psalm 8:8
The birds of the
heavens and
the fish of the
sea, Whatever
passes through
the paths of the
seas.

26. Psalm 8:9,
Majestic Is Your Name
• NAU Psalm 8:9 O LORD, our Lord, How
majestic is Your name in all the earth!
• NAU Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in
the name [singular] of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Spirit,
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27. THE
END
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29. God or Angels?
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 Bible Accuracy
• God or Angels?
• Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 Bible Accuracy
• Q. I have heard many teachers claim that in Psalm 8:5 and Hebrews 2:7 the word “angels” is mistranslated and
should be God resulting in the text reading: “… a little lower than God” with the idea being to bolster man’s
dominion status. The notion that there’s an error always generates in my mind thought of well if this translation is
wrong what else is wrong and that leads to the doubt of the Bible being infallible, the breathed, and inspired Word
of God. Others I have heard say that you have to be a Hebrew/Greek scholar because God spoke to his man using
these languages and translators have taken liberties. I would like your opinion. Thanks.
• A. The Hebrew word “elohim” in Psalm 8:5 is almost always translated “God” or “gods” depending on whether it is
speaking of deity or not (it’s a plural word), although it can mean “angels”. Psalm 8:5 is the only time it’s translated
that way in the Old Testament and then only in some English translations.
• But the Greek word “aggelos” in Hebrews 2:7 is almost always translated angels. This could be due to the fact that
it is an accepted meaning of the Hebrew word and the context of Hebrews 1-2 is the superiority of Jesus over
angels. The writer was using the phrase “son of man” to refer to Jesus and worded the Greek translation of Psalm
8:5 so it could be read, “You made him for a little while lower than the angels”. This is confirmed in Hebrews 2:9
where he mentioned Jesus by name. Some study Bibles carry this alternate translation in a footnote.
• His point was when Jesus became man, He became lower than the angels for a little while, but he was then crowned
with glory and honor, implying that after His resurrection He was raised above them again. You can see how this
changed the focus of Psalm 8:5 from man in general to the Son of Man in particular.
• It is true that some liberties have been taken with the English translations, mostly to accommodate the theological
biases of the translators. But they only become problematic in a small percentage of cases. For most people any
legitimate English translation will be more than sufficient. It’s only when someone embarks upon a serious study
that knowing the actual meanings of words in their original language becomes helpful, and there are a number of
study aids available that can help those who lack a formal education in the Bible’s original languages.
• http://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/god-
angels/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gracethrufaith+%28GraceThruF
aith%29

30. Created Moon, Young Moon
• Lunar formation—collision theory fails
• by Ronald G. Samec
• Figure 1. Stars in this cluster appear to be formed out of the surrounding nebula, illustrating the author’s ‘In-place formation’.
• A recent study of moon rocks1,2 calls into question the present lunar formation theory and may bring us back full circle to one of the earliest theories—that of George Darwin’s ‘fission hypothesis’. Other early theories included the lunar capture theory and the
condensation hypothesis.3 The fission hypothesis claims that the early earth rotated faster, as more dense elements sunk to its core. When the earth exceeded breakup velocity, the material that would become the moon tore from Pacific Ocean Basin, leaving
a scar (Ridges). The problem with this is that the initial spin or angular momentum is not conserved in the present earth–moon system (50% loss). Also, the orbit of the moon and the obliquity of the ecliptic (likewise the inclination of the earth) should
coincide, and they do not. The earth’s inclination is about 23.5° to the orbital plane (the ecliptic) and the moon’s orbit is inclined by some 5°.
• Another theory is that the moon was captured by the earth as it passed by in an earth-crossing orbit. One major problem with this idea is that capture is an extremely rare event. Even if this unlikely event took place, the moon would likely have swung by in a
parabolic or an elliptical trajectory, which is a higher-velocity orbit than that of the near-circular orbit of the present day moon. The big question is what caused the moon to slow down? Also, we would expect the present moon to have a larger eccentricity and
inclination. The resulting fantastic tidal dissipation would have also resulted in major distortions and destructiveness of the earth. Finally, if a near-collision brought the object within the Roche limit, the moon could have been shredded into rings encircling the
earth.
• The big question is what caused the moon to slow down?
• The third lunar formation hypothesis is an extension of the Laplace nebular hypotheses: the moon formed from the solar nebula. As the sun’s nebula condensed, conservation of angular momentum caused a disk to form, and within the disk, eddies or
whirlpools developed. At the centre of these, the planets formed. Secondary eddies led to satellites or moons of the planets. The earth and the moon supposedly formed in an eddy and a secondary eddy. Again, the strange earth-moon orbital inclination
would not result—the moon’s orbital plane and the earth’s equator should coincide.
• A fourth lunar formation theory is more recent.4 It involves an earth collision with a two Mars-mass planet. This seems to solve all of the aforementioned problems except for the low probability of such an event. In fact, it is much more improbable than a near
collision of a lunar mass dwarf planet as in the capture hypothesis. However, the odd orbit of the moon is easily explained by the initial orbit of the planet since it does not have to follow a particular path (except that it should be near the ecliptic). However,
Zhang et al.2 and Meier1 have now cast doubt over even this model. Zhang et al. confined their study to a rare form of titanium (using the 50Ti/47Ti ratio) which is known to occur in widely varying amounts throughout the solar system. After correcting for the
difference caused by the continued exposure of the lunar surface solar radiation, the scientists found that the abundance in moon rocks was identical to that of earth. This implies that the moon came only from the same materials as the earth and not a once-
distant alien planet that collided with the earth. There is therefore no evidence of the Mars-mass object in these data. So the collision theory has apparently failed.5
• Why should the moon and the earth be so alike? A clue to this is supplied by the following verses:
• “Let the earth bring forth grass …” (Genesis 1:11).
“Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature …” (Genesis 1:20).
“Let the earth bring forth the living creature …” (Genesis 1:24).
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground …” (Genesis 2:7).
“And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air …” (Genesis 2:19).
“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Genesis 2:22).The real explanation of the moon’s existence and orbital configuration is that God designed and created the moon and set it in place, with
a number of important purposes.
• It is possible that God formed the first living creatures, and possibly other complex objects like the first stars and planets, from already created locally available elements. Thus, sea creatures were formed from materials found in the oceans, land animals and
men were formed from elements found in the earth’s crust. Probably even the earth, the planets, and the stars were formed from local condensations of gasses and dust found in the immediate area of their formation. In the beginning, there was a ‘creation’
of elementary materials followed by in-place formation of complex forms. Today, stars found in groups called clusters are found to be of similar ‘age’ and chemical content. This could be offered as evidence for this idea. It appears that God made products
from previously created basic ‘building blocks’. I call this the ‘in-place formation’ hypothesis (figure 1). It may be an important piece to the creation puzzle.
• Regardless, the real explanation of the moon’s existence and orbital configuration is that God designed and created the moon and set it in place, with a number of important purposes. These include the gyrostabilization of the earth, cleaning of its shorelines
by tidal forces, giving light in the evening, and the revealing of the Sun’s corona and chromosphere to scientists during solar eclipses. Helium was discovered because of the last listed design feature. We read in Genesis 1:16–18 (KJV):
• “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
“And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
“And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.”
• Related Articles
• On the origin of lunar maria
• Problems for ‘giant impact’ origin of moon
• The moon: the light that rules the night
• The moon’s recession and age
• Moon madness
• Further Reading
• Solar System and Extra-solar Planets Questions and Answers
• References
• Meier, M.M.M., Moon formation: earth’s titanium twin, Nature Geoscience 5(4):240–241, 2012. Return to text.
• Zhang, J., Dauphas, N., Davis, A.M., Leya, I. and Fedkin, A., The proto-earth as a significant source of lunar material, Nature Geoscience 5(4):251–255, 2012.Return to text.
• Whitcomb, J.C. and DeYoung, D.B., The Moon: Its Creation, Form and Significance, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1978. Return to text.
• Canup, R.M., Dynamics of lunar formation, Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 42:441–475, 2004. Return to text.
• Zhang et al., ref. 2 suggest that the twin nature of lunar rocks and the earth could be explained by an “efficient impact ejection” by “exchange of material between the earth’s magma ocean and the protolunar disk”. However, it is very hard to imagine such a
thorough mixing of an alien planet and the earth’s crust.Return to text.

31. Waters Above, Solar System, Sun Moon
• Are Science and Creation Compatible?
• Think the story of creation, as described in the Book of Genesis, would hold water if subjected to scientific scrutiny?
“Our findings show that a significant fraction of our Solar System’s water, the most-fundamental ingredient to fostering life, is older than the Sun,” said
Conel Alexander of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who took part in the research.
The verses in Genesis talk about water, too—specifically, about what some say is the division between that water in space and the water here on Earth:
“And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.”
That was on Day 2—predating the sun by two days, according to the biblical order of creation. (Or so it seems at first glance.)
What are religious Jews to make of such parallels between scientific findings and the biblical account of creation? That depends on whom you ask, of
course, with answers ranging, in essence, from “nothing” to “a great deal.”
“These are totally separate things,” says Rabbi Yehoyada Amir, who heads the Israel Council of Reform Rabbis and is a professor of Jewish thought at
Hebrew Union College. It doesn’t even matter if science supports religious tenets, in his view: the Bible is here to teach us values and the role of mankind
in the world, not to give us an accurate play-by-play of how the universe began.
But Nathan Aviezer, an Orthodox physics professor at Bar-Ilan University who grew up in Detroit and has written several books about the interplay of
science and religion, argues that contemporary cosmology has gone a long way toward clarifying the previously opaque opening verses of the Torah.
Take that seemingly confusing part about water beneath the heavens and water above, for instance. In the past, Bible readers had to shrug off that
heavenly water as esoterica that was beyond their understanding. Now we know that there is water in space—or, in the Bible’s words, “above the
firmament.” The current findings provide a further boost to scientific support for a literal understanding of Day 2 of creation, says Aviezer.
“It corresponds even more strongly with what is written in the Bible,” says Aviezer. “It’s good for the Jews.”
-www.haaretz.com, 13 November 2014
The theory of evolution is now considered a scientific fact throughout the academic world. Yet when faced with real scientific scrutiny, large holes are
exposed and usually answered with one word: “time.” Those believing in evolution simply claim that the earth is millions, even billions of years old and
evolved by itself.
Will man find the answer in his desperate search for the origin of life? The answer is yes, and the record is found in Revelation 6:15-16, “And the kings
of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves
in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.” That will be the end of the religion of evolution.
(For more on Creation, read The Genesis Factor, Item 2239.)
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32. • Psalm 8:1 devotional
• Psalm 8:1 devotional
• stockxchng
• majestic
• http://creation.com/psalm-8-verse-1
• “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”—Psalm 8:1
• by Rev. Richard Pike
• “O Lord our Lord, How Excellent is Thy Name.”
• About one thousand years before the birth of Christ, King David who reigned over all of Israel, wrote Psalm 8 to
celebrate God’s glory as Creator.
• This song of praise encourages our heart and mind to contemplate the One God who alone bears the Most Excellent
Name in all the earth.
• The Authorised Version reads “How Excellent is Thy Name”. The Berkeley, Version says “How glorious”. The Revised
Standard Version, the New American Version and the New International Version all translate the text “How majestic is
your Name”. God’s Name is that by which He is known. His nature is His Name. The Name He bears is the nature of His
being; that nature by which He reveals Himself to us. Men do not give God a Name—He gives Himself one, or rather,
many names as expressions of His relationship to His creatures. In this first verse of Psalm 8 two names of God are
mentioned and translated “Lord”. The first is Jehovah (or Yahweh) LORD, and the second name is Adonai, Lord.
• Men do not give God a Name—He gives himself one, or rather, many.
• God’s revelation fixed the meaning of the word Jehovah (Exodus 3:14). The context of this passage teaches that He who
declares Himself as the “I AM” (I AM the God of your father … ) is the One who in effect can say “I WAS” (Exodus 3:6).
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33. What Is Man That God Cares For Him?,
Psalm 8, by Philippe R. Sterling
• NAU Hebrews 2:9 But we do see Him who was
made for a little while lower than the angels,
namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of
death crowned with glory and honor, so that by
the grace of God He might taste death for
everyone.
• NAU 1 Corinthians 6:3 Do you not know that
we will judge angels? How much more matters
of this life?
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