SECRECY #15 - All Caps Name
Today is the fifteenth part in the study about "secrecy."
Have you ever noticed that your name is in all capital letters on official documents like driver's license, bank statements, and on bills? I have always thought that was strange. Well, today we are going to study "names" and find out if there is a reason for the all capital letters. We will start by studying what the world thinks about our name and then we will finish this post with a Bible study about names (God's Name and our names).
Our topic today is "All Caps Name".
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The World's View on Names
The reason why "the world" capitalizes our names is not a good thing. It is something called:
"Capitis Diminutio" (which means "diminished capacity")
This definition is taken from "Black's Law Dictionary":
- from Roman Law - the extinguishing (whole or in part) of a person's former status and legal capacity. Three levels of condition/changes of state: maxima, media and minima. Let's detail what each state means and also how a person's name would appear for each level (we will use the name "John Doe").
1. capitis diminutio maxima = loss of liberty, citizenship and family (slave status).
JOHN DOE
2. capitis diminutio media = loss of citizenship and family (still having personal liberty)
John DOE
3. capitis diminutio minima = loss of family (citizenship and liberty remain).
John Doe
According to those descriptions, if our name appears in "all caps", then that is equal to a slave status.
Here is a link to more information on all caps (copy and paste the link to get it to work):
https://www.scribd.com/document/65439156/Capitis-Diminutio-Maxima-Name-in-ALL-CAPITALS
This should not make you afraid after you read what God says about names (even if there really is a nefarious implication behind our names being in all caps).
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God's View On Names
Firstly, Let's look at Jesus' Name - it is the Name above all Names (read Scripture passage below - "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord"):
It does NOT matter what race or religion you are - all you have to do is call on His Name and you will be saved (see verses below):
What about our names? We are precious to our Heavenly Father and to Jesus! A few years ago, I did a series about who Jesus is - in Part4 we learned that Jesus is "The Good Shepherd" (click HERE to read "Jesus Is The Good Shepherd").
Look at the Scripture below - "He calls us by name"!!!! - How wonderful!!!
Look at the Bible verse below - God calls out each star by name. There are Bible scholars who believe that the stars are actually His angels (I agree with that view).
If there is a way to get our name restored to the correct status that God created us with, then I hope that correction will become apparent to us soon.
In the mean time, the most important thing to concentrate on is making sure that our name is written in the "Book of Life." (see Scripture below):
Remember that one day all of these secrets and lies will come to light.
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