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1 | Why is it too sacred to pronounce today? | Deut 6:5 | MAC702 | 227797 | ||
Where did this prohibition to "pronounce the sacred name of God" come from? Throughout the Bible, there are quotations of the people saying God's name, using it, not just writing it down. (Ruth 2:4) And, look! Boaz came from Bethlehem and proceeded to say to the harvesters: “Jehovah be with you.” In turn they would say to him: “Jehovah bless you.” There is no pretense that Jehovah is the correct pronunciation in Hebrew. It's not even an attempt to do so. It is simply consistent with all other English names in the Bible. If someone insists on Yahweh, there should be no problem with that, but inconsistency would seem interesting. Most use it as an excuse to not use God's name at all, probably because it sounds funny since most are using a Bible that has removed it and they are therefore not used to seeing it. Others like their God to seem more impersonal, without a name. |
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2 | Why is it too sacred to pronounce today? | Deut 6:5 | biblicalman | 227805 | ||
The ban on pronouncing the sacred name of God came about after the Exile. It is not strictly a Scriptural ban but it is noteworthy that neither Jesus nor His followers used the name YHWH to our knowledge. In the case of Jesus that was probably because to have used it would have caused great offence. However had He felt it important He would have said so. He also followed the practise of not overusing the title God, replacing it with another noun e.g 'the right hand of Power'. Using the name GOD can become blasphemous simply because we use it carelessly. However, it was a good practise to call God GOD, as it made clear that there is only one God. It was because of the Jewish practise that we do not know how God's name is pronounced. If we do not know how to pronounce it then we are not certainly using the name of God however we pronounce it so we do not need an excuse not to use it. It is just common sense. . |
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3 | Why is it too sacred to pronounce today? | Deut 6:5 | DocTrinsograce | 227813 | ||
Arguably, John 8:56-58 might be an instance where Christ used the tetragrammaton -- and certainly His hearers took it that way. "Some think that this applies simply to the eternal Divinity of Christ, and compare it with that passage in the writings of Moses, I am what I am, (Exodus 3:14). But I extend it much farther, because the power and grace of Christ, so far as he is the Redeemer of the world, was common to all ages. It agrees therefore with that saying of the apostle, Christ yesterday, and to-day, and for ever, (Hebrews 13:8). For the context appears to demand this interpretation. He had formerly said that Abraham longed for his day with vehement desire; and as this seemed incredible to the Jews, he adds, that he himself also existed at that time. The reason assigned will not appear sufficiently strong, if we do not understand that he was even then acknowledged to be the Mediator, by whom God was to be appeased. And yet the efficacy which belonged, in all ages, to the grace of the Mediator depended on his eternal Divinity; so that this saying of Christ contains a remarkable testimony of his Divine essence." --John Calvin |
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4 | Why is it too sacred to pronounce today? | Deut 6:5 | biblicalman | 227818 | ||
I must confess I fail to see how Jesus could have used the tetragrammaton in John 8.56-58 or that he used it anywhere else. He could not have said 'before Abraham was YHWH'. If He was speaking in Hebrew (which is unlikely) He used the first person as in Exodus 3.14 (EHYEH). Certainly it is based on the tetragrammaton but it was in no way the actual Name of God. It was an interpretation of that Name. Thus Jesus never taught the way to pronounce YHWH. His hearers took it as blasphemy because they gathered the inference of what He was saying, not because He used the Name of YHWH. That does not of course in any way invalidate Calvin's comments. | ||||||