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16. How did God get his new name?

The same way He got His old name; He gave it to Himself, then announced it to us. By the way, "God" is not a name, so I suppose you mean how did "Jesus" become "Baha'u'llah."

In the beginning of His Tablet to the Christians, also called "The Most Holy Tablet," Baha'u'llah speaks of His name:

In the name of the Lord, the Lord of great glory.

This is an Epistle from Our presence unto him whom the veils of names have failed to keep back from God, the Creator of earth and heaven, that his eyes may be cheered in the days of his Lord, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Say, O followers of the Son! Have ye shut out yourselves from Me by reason of My Name? Wherefore ponder ye not in your hearts? Day and night ye have been calling upon your Lord, the Omnipotent, but when He came from the heaven of eternity in His great glory, ye turned aside from Him and remained sunk in heedlessness."
Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 9

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