I have to believe if it were that important the Lord would've said so in scripture.
Well, in Exodus 3:13-14 Yahweh (Jehovah in English) was the name given to Moses when he asked the name of the God who was going to liberate the Israelites.
”But Moses said to the true God: “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your forefathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What should I say to them?” 14 So God said to Moses: “I Will Become What I Choose to Become.” And he added: “This is what you are to say to the Israelites, ‘I Will Become has sent me to you.’” 15 Then God said once more to Moses:
“This is what you are to say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh (Jehovah) the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation.”
If we read this passage from the Jewish Tanakh, we see that the divine name is there in the text……but pause for a moment and consider the background to this scripture….
Moses had fled Egypt 40 years earlier after killing an Egyptian slave driver who was mistreating one of his kinsman (a capital offense)…..so the people asking the question of Moses “what is his name” may well have been testing him out because they knew who Jehovah was, but did he? Did he come in the name of their God?
The meaning of God’s name is also in question since most translations render “I Am” as the meaning of God’s name….but again, the Jews knew the meaning of his name, but now there was a new facet to it….not what he was, or that he exists, (they already knew him as Jacob’s descendants) but what he would “become” in order to fulfill his promises to them, and his prophesies about them, with regard to their forefather, Jacob.
Then consider the last sentence in his reply….
”This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation.”…..
The Jewish Tanakh renders that as….
“This is My name forever, and this is how I should be mentioned in every generation.”
So the Jews had no divine right to eliminate God’s name from their speech because to “mention” something is to speak about it…..and this was for all generations to come…..did the Jews ever obey their God continually? Should we also adopt their disobedience?
Since all language is created by God, then he knows his name in all languages…..it makes no sense to quibble about the name of God in English, and then to claim that Jesus is God, but using
his name in English….why the double standard?
Romans 10:13-14…
”For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 However, how will they call on him if they have not put faith in him? How, in turn, will they put faith in him about whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach?”
Who is the “Lord” referred to here? Paul was quoting Joel 2:32 which says “
And everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved”.
Is the whole of Christendom calling on the name of one who is not Jehovah? Are they calling upon the wrong name? Salvation is involved here….
When Gentiles were accepted into the congregation, Peter wrote….
”Symʹe·on has related thoroughly how God for the first time turned his attention to the nations to take out of them a people for his name.”
The Jews were already identified with their God Jehovah, so all the first Christians knew who he was but they had lost ability to know how to say his name…..so Jesus said at John 17:25
“Righteous Father, the world has, indeed, not come to know you, but I know you, and these have come to know that you sent me. 26 I have made your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in union with them.”
He also began the Lord’s Prayer with “hallowed be thy name”…..so to God and to Jesus, God’s illustrious name is who he is, and encompasses all that he has done, is doing and will do, in the future.
