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Please answer this question...
Oct 11, 2008 2:05 PM
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could you please do a show where you enquire about the true name of God....it's roots, what happen to it and why people don't use it any more?
We have a name? even angels have names ...how could it be possible that our God doesn't have a name...
Satan could be considered a God. He is given the power to rule over the system of things in this world...
God = entity having power not a name
Even the Romans, Aztecs , etc....had names for their Gods...How can the Almighty -God of Abraham, Moses and Isaac not have a name?
Please do an episode on this...
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Oct 12, 2008 11:27 AM
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According to the Bible, God is a title, not a name. God's Biblical name is yud-hay-vav-hay (four Hebrew consonants), but the correct vowels are unknown. The assumption is yud-schwa, hay-holem, vav-kametz, followed by silent hay, which produces Y'hovah, but Yahvay and Yahway are also possible. According to Jewish tradition, in order to never take God's name in vain, the yud-hay-vqav-hay is never pronounced, so Jews substitute Adonai or Ha Shem (literally, the name). This information is common knowledge in Jewish synagoges, Messianic synagoges (where Y'shua/Jesus is presented as the Jewish Messiah), as well as some churches that care to explore the Judaic roots of Christianity.
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Re: Please answer this question...
Oct 15, 2008 11:17 AM
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Yes, but didn't Jesus teach his apostles and all his disciples to pray "..Sanctified be your name"?
How could anyone sanctify his name if we call him God and God is a title?
If He wants us to sanctify his name wouldn't he wants us to know his name in order to sanctify him specifically and not just any god?
For instance I'm in a room full of people and I call on a specific one by saying "Sir" but there's several men who can relate to "Sir" They would all think I'm talking each on of them but if I say "Sir, William" then Mr. William knows I'm calling him. Due to the fact that I used his name.
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Re: Please answer this question...
Oct 18, 2008 2:44 AM
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The name Jehovah did not exist until about the 1500s CE. A scribe doing a translation of the Torah did not know that the vowels placed above YHWH were to remind Jews not to say Yahweh, but to substitute other titles like Adonae.
He pulled the vowels down and placed them between the capital letters and came up with the name Yehovah.
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Re: Please answer this question...
Feb 20, 2009 9:36 PM
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Actually the conversion from YHWH to Jehovah has been traced back to 16th century German scribes. Once you remember that the German "J" is pronounced like the English "Y" (example: Jaeger (Ger) is pronounced like Yeager (Eng)) and the German "w" like the English "v", the spelling is just a close phoenetic translation of Yahweh, but in German.
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Re: Please answer this question...
Apr 6, 2009 4:34 PM
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Sun of G-d: did you read what Kattey wrote? 1500s CE is the 16th Century, just like we're in the 21st Century now and its 2009. Moreover, the rest of what you wrote is not really true:
J is pronounced "Y," and "W" is pronounced like a "v," but "v" in German is pronounced like an "f" sound, not as a "W" (as in Vater, which is pronounced "FAH-ter"). The problem here is the German pronunciation of Latin, wherein "V" makes the "w" sound. But beyond all that, even when you understand the consonants (making them YHWH, as was stated before), the vowels are still wrong, which is what Kattey was saying: the vowels from Ad-nai were inserted into the consonants for YHWH, so Jehovah is not a German transliteration of the other pronunciation; it is merely a mistake made by a scribe who was unaware of the Jewish tradition.
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Re: Please answer this question...
Aug 8, 2009 8:51 AM
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If Mr. Jacobovichi would do a show on “God’s” name, I would like to suggest he start with Tel Arad!
Today, modern Arad strikes many visitors as a typical Israeli town. With 27,000 inhabitants, it is located in the Judean wilderness to the west of the Dead Sea. However, the ancient Israelite city of Arad was located some five miles [8 km] to the west. It is there that archaeologists have carefully stripped away layers of sand, uncovering a wealth of structures and inscriptions.
These inscriptions were found on ostraca, fragments of pottery used as writing tablets. Writing in that way was a common practice in Bible times. The dig at Tel Arad yielded what has been described as the richest collection of such ostraca ever found in Israel. What, though, is the value of this archaeological dig and God‘s name?
It is of great interest that many of the about 200 ostraca recovered bear Hebrew names that are also found in the Bible, such as Pashhur, Meremoth, and the sons of Korah. Some of these secular documents are of even greater interest because they include God’s personal name. Composed of four Hebrew letters יהוה (YHWH)—often called the Tetragrammaton—this proper name is unique to Almighty God. Later, superstition led many to believe that pronouncing or writing God’s name is sacrilegious. However, the findings at Tel Arad, like many others, confirm that in Bible times God’s name was freely used in daily life, in greetings, and in blessings. For instance, one inscription reads: “To my lord Elyashib. May Yahweh [Jehovah] concern himself with your well-being. . . . He is staying in the temple of Yahweh.”
The New Catholic Encyclopedia explains what took place some time after the Jews returned from their Babylonian exile in the sixth century B.C.E. It says: “The name Yahweh [the Tetragrammaton with vowels added] began to be considered with special reverence, and the practice arose of substituting for it the word ADONAI [Lord] or ELOHIM [God]. . . . The practice led in time to forgetfulness of the proper pronunciation of the name Yahweh.” Thus, people stopped using God’s name. Eventually, the exact ancient pronunciation was lost and the divine name became ineffable to them.
Although we cannot be certain exactly how God’s name was pronounced, the important thing is that using his name draws us closer to him. Would you like your friends to call you “mister” or “miss,” or would you rather that they call you by your personal name? Even if they speak another language and do not pronounce your name exactly right, you would still prefer to have them call you by your name, would you not? The same is true of God. He wants us to use his personal name, Jehovah.
In English, the pronunciation “Jehovah” is commonly known. Would it not be appropriate for all who love God to address him by that personal name and thus draw close to him? “Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you,” says the Bible.—James 4:8.
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