Ronald David Bruno said:
The entire New Testament does not contain the name Jehovah. Look in the Greek Interliniar Bible, it's not there. Why? JESUS IS THE NAME used throughout or Lord. Any reference to our Father is Father.
It's odd, JW's insist on this name that was made up in the 16th century and never uttered by Jesus or the Apostles. The Jews were afraid to prounounce YHWH incorrectly so they used Lord, Adonai. Yaweh may be closer to the word, yet is it really a name or description of who He is, a state of being. '"I AM Who I Am" ... "Tell them, I Am has sent me to you." I am the creator, the eternal being, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Javob ... It was the preincarnate Christ, who spoke to Moses, giving him an incomplete introduction that He would later complete. "Before Abraham was, I AM"; "I AM th Bread of Life"; "I AM the Resurrection and the Life"; "I AM the Good Shepherd"; "I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life"; "I AM the Doorway"; "I AM the Vine"; I AM the Alpha and Omega" etc. Moses new He was talking to God, but He didn't quite know as much as we do now that has been revealed through Jesus. The Old Testament was Christ concealed and the New Testament was Christ revealed. God emptied Himself into a womb of Mary and was born the baby Jesus ... worshipped and adored even by angels in the midst.[/QUOTE\]
You're not being accurate concerning the name of YHWH God(Jehovah). The name of the true God was taken out of the scriptures. Imperfect men who are nothing but dust believe they are wiser and have more authority than God and because of some superstitious reason took God personal name YHWH out of Scripture and replaced it with the words like Lord and God. The fact that God had his name put in the scriptures 7000 times is meaningless to these people. Oh something else you don't understand, when the apostles were inspired to write the new testament, those original inspired writings, not the copies of those inspired writings, but the original inspired writings, had God name YHWH in those inspired writings. It was those people who said they were Christians after the apostles had all died that took God name YHWH out of Scripture.
Another thing, the Septuagint Bible that existed in Jesus Christ time that he was on the earth, had God's name YHWH in it, so whenever Jesus read from that Bible and he came across the name YHWH in a scripture he was reading he would read the name YHWH.
Also when you say that Jews were afraid to pronounce YHWH so they used words like Lord instead of YHWH you're saying that men's reasoning is more important than what God said. God has always wanted his name YHWH known throughout all the nations.
At some point I agree a superstitious idea arose among the Jews that it was wrong even to pronounce the divine name YHWH. Just what basis was originally assigned for discontinuing the use of the name is not definitely known. Some hold that the name was viewed as being too sacred for imperfect lips to speak. Yet the Hebrew Scriptures themselves give no evidence that any of God’s true servants ever felt any hesitancy about pronouncing his name.
Another view is that the intent was to keep non-Jewish peoples from knowing the name and possibly misusing it. However, Jehovah himself said that he would ‘have his name declared in all the earth’ (
Ex 9:16;
1Ch 16:23, 24; Ps 113:3; Mal 1:11, 14), to be known even by his adversaries. (
Isa 64:2) The name was in fact known and used by pagan nations both in pre-Common Era times and in the early centuries of the Common Era.
Another claim is that the purpose was to protect the name from use in magical rites. If so, this was poor reasoning, as it is obvious that the more mysterious the name became through disuse the more it would suit the purposes of practicers of magic.
Many have suggested that the name ceased to be used by about 300 B.C.E. Evidence for this date supposedly was found in the absence of the Tetragrammaton in the Greek
Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, begun about 280 B.C.E. It is true that the most complete manuscript copies of the
Septuagint now known do consistently follow the practice of substituting the Greek words
Kyʹri·os (Lord) or
The·osʹ (God) for YHWH. But these major manuscripts date back only as far as the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. More ancient copies, though in fragmentary form, have been discovered that prove that the
earliest copies of the
Septuagint did contain YHWH
One of these is the fragmentary remains of Deuteronomy, listed as P. Fouad Inventory No. 266. It regularly presents the YHWH, written in square Hebrew characters, in each case of its appearance in the Hebrew text being translated. This manuscript is dated by scholars as being from the first century B.C.E., and thus it was written four or five centuries earlier than the manuscripts mentioned previously.
Many modern scholars and Bible translators advocate following the tradition of eliminating the distinctive name of God. They not only claim that its uncertain pronunciation justifies such a course but also hold that the supremacy and uniqueness of the true God make unnecessary his having a particular name. Such a view receives no support from the inspired Scriptures, either those of pre-Christian times or those of the Christian Greek Scriptures.
The name YHWH occurs 6,828 times in the Hebrew text. The very frequency of the appearance of the name shows its importance to the Bible’s Author, whose name it is. Its use throughout the Scriptures far outnumbers that of any of the titles, such as “Sovereign Lord” or “God,” applied to him.
