I Am –
During Jesus Christ’s mortal ministry, he bore witness to the fact that he is
the great I Am. I Am connotes self-existence or eternal existence. It is the
enduring nature of God without beginning or without end. When Jesus was
challenged by the Pharisees about his divine mission he bore witness to them
that he is the God that Abraham worshipped by saying, “Before Abraham was, I
am.” The God of Moses declared himself to be I Am. When Moses entered Egypt to
deliver the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, Moses asked the following
from God, “Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel,
and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and
they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them And God said
unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.” (David P. McCash, Canaan, Babylon, and
Egypt: A Comparative Theological Analysis on Creation [Boise, Idaho: Uraeus Publishing,
2021], 105)
