StanJ said:
That didn't answer me at all, just spewed out either KJVO or JW propaganda. I'm leaning towards JW, so here is a response to your false teaching.
http://www.bible.ca/jw-YHWH.htm
You are definitely not the first to attack the name of Jehovah and won't be the last. Bible translators have been doing it for centuries, so you can find a lot company with your disdain for God's name. The Catholic church has forbidden its use among its priests. As Jeremiah wrote of the Jewish prophets: "They intend to make my people
forget my name by the dreams they relate to one another, just as their fathers forgot my name because of Ba′al (or with the use of "Lord" or "God" instead of Jehovah)."(Jer 23:27) But Jehovah says of these: "So here I am
against the prophets,” declares Jehovah, “who
steal (or remove) my words from one another.”(Jer 23:30)
I will not wrangle with you over God's name of Jehovah as rendered in English, for of the Pharisees who constantly argued with Jesus, Matthew wrote: "Then the disciples came and said to him: “Do you know that the Pharisees were stumbled at hearing what you said ? In reply he said: “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. Let them be. Blind guides is what they are. If, then, a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”(Matt 15:12-14)
The name of Jehovah will stand, despite your repeated attempts to cast it aside, like the churches of Christendom have done for centuries. As prophetically spoken of through Ezekiel, God said: "I will certainly sanctify my great name, which was
profaned among the nations, which you profaned among them; and the
nations will have to know that I am Jehovah,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, ‘when I am sanctified (or made holy) among you before their eyes."(Eze 36:23)
That day is fast approaching, called Armageddon.(Rev 16:14, 16) Jesus established that only a
few (in relation to earth's population) would be doing Jehovah's will, sanctifying his name: "Go in through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and
few are finding it."(Matt 7:13, 14)
Jesus taught his genuine disciples (which are only a few) to pray for God's name to "hallowed" or sanctified, not some nameless person, at Matthew 6:9. What name is to be used ? Lord or God ? These are
not names, but titles, and Jesus did
not say for Christians to pray: "Our Father in the heavens, let your title be hallowed", but rather "let
your name be hallowed" or sanctified, cleansed of all the reproach it has received over the centuries, including the brazen attempt to hide the name Jehovah.
Thus, the apostle Paul wrote, quoting from Joel 2:32: "For “everyone who
calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”(Rom 10:13) Jesus said just hours before his death: "This means everlasting life, their coming to
know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ."(John 17:3) Only those who have come to know God, using his personal name in their language and identifying with that name, can gain everlasting life. No one can know someone intimately unless they know their personal name.
At Matthew 12, Matthew wrote of Jesus, quoting from Isaiah 42:1, 2: "Look ! My servant whom I chose, my beloved, whom I have approved ! I will put my spirit upon him, and what justice is he will make clear to the nations.He will
not quarrel nor cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the main streets."(Matt 12:18, 19) Enough information has been presented. Thus, I will follow Jesus advice and ' let you be'.