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Storks are primarily carnivorous and eat reptiles, small mammals, insects, fish, amphibians and other small invertebrates. He devours almost all living things without mercy. It is perhaps this destruction of living things that Adam saw when he named the stork "not understanding holiness and mercy". Holiness and mercy are the attributes of God, so he named it "Not understanding God". | Storks are primarily carnivorous and eat reptiles, small mammals, insects, fish, amphibians and other small invertebrates. He devours almost all living things without mercy. It is perhaps this destruction of living things that Adam saw when he named the stork "not understanding holiness and mercy". Holiness and mercy are the attributes of God, so he named it "Not understanding God". | ||
One of God's names is 'Elohim' אלהים. It means 'God אל separated from men ים (his creation י finished by the son ם) by ignorance. His name tells us that he wants us to know him. Some say you have to believe God before you can know him. But that is not what God said. He said you could know him first, then trust and understand him. <ref>{{bgw| Isa 43:10 }} Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe [trust] me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.</ref> | One of God's names is 'Elohim' אלהים. It means 'God אל separated from men ים (his creation י finished by the son ם) by ignorance'. His name tells us that he wants us to know him. Some say you have to believe God before you can know him. But that is not what God said. He said you could know him first, then trust and understand him. <ref>{{bgw| Isa 43:10 }} Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe [trust] me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.</ref> | ||
The main purpose of God is to teach us that He is Holy or different and separated. <ref>{{bgw| Le 11:45 }} For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.</ref>; He alone is God. He also teaches that He is Love. <ref>{{bgw| 1Jo 4:8 }} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</ref> | The main purpose of God is to teach us that He is Holy or different and separated. <ref>{{bgw| Le 11:45 }} For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.</ref>; He alone is God. He also teaches that He is Love. <ref>{{bgw| 1Jo 4:8 }} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</ref> | ||
