There was a BAN on saying the Name the Father in that time. It was illegal to pronounce the Name of the Father out loud in public. It was not even pronounced at the temple except by the High Priest on Yom Kippurim. However "I am" is used all over the place, as a very common phrase, even in the scripture concerning people who are not Yeshua. If the Name of the Father was the same they would never, never, have treated it with such disrespect. It would have been illegal to say "I am" no matter what you needed to say, (they would have no doubt used some other terminology). "I am" is not the Name of the Father. If you look in the Septuagint translation by Sir Lancelot Brenton you will see this to be the case when it comes to the Greek version of Exodus 3:14, ("HO ON" = "THE BEING", not "ego eimi" which is "I am"), so even the Greek ego eimi is not the Name of the Father but rather just a very common phrase used in everyday language by everyday common people. The "I am" statements have been turned into a "special pleading" argument which basically says, "Whenever Jesus says 'I am' it means he is claiming to be God; but whenever someone else says 'I am' it is the normative understanding of the basic words in common everyday usage". These are the kinds of arguments, (special pleading), which come about when there is no real solid evidence to prove a theory. This particular theory falls flat on its face when one realizes and accepts the fact that it was utterly illegal to even pronounce the Name of the Father in public in those times. There is no way that the Name of the Father was an everyday common usage expression such as "I am".
Q. "Hi, I am looking to buy a pair of bullock-hide sandals I saw here the other day."
A. "Oy vey! Call the quaternion: another foreigner just blasphemed in my store!"
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