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NASB | Psalm 83:18 That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth. |
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Subject: WHERE TO FIND ALL THE NAMES OF GOD |
Bible Note: Hi again, I'm sorry but any Bible scholar will tell what I'm showing you. As I already said, it depends on which language you want. For English, God’s name is Jehovah. And as you said before the “English” was then right you are again, Jehovah’s name wasn’t Jehovah because English wasn’t spoken. It depends on what language you want. I just assumed you spoke English and provided you with what God’s name is in English. If you speek Greek, I’ll show you what the Greek speeking Jews used instead of Jehovah, as I have a copy of an ancient manuscript that proves exactly that. As for no J’s in the Old Testament? Then using that reasoning, then Jeremiah wasn’t really Jeremiah’s name, and Job’s name wasn’t really Job, since there wasn’t J’s in the Old Testament times. And Jehu’s name and Jonah’s name and Jacob’s weren’t really these names. Could you please tell me what their names are today in English because I know what they are in Hebrew since I do indeed read Hebrew. Realize this though, divine blessing was conspicuously absent from that nation of the Hebrews as a whole at the time of Jesus Christ’s life and ministry on earth when God’s name had gone out of use due to the religious tradition of the Jews. The Jewish religious leaders of that day had become so alienated from God and his principles that not only did they shroud his name in secrecy but they also made themselves responsible for the death of his beloved Son. Not many years later, in 70 C.E., the Jews paid a terrible price for this when their temple and the holy city of Jerusalem were destroyed by the Roman armies. Did Jesus Christ and his disciples follow the Jewish tradition concerning God’s name? In a fearless way, Jesus condemned the tradition of the Pharisees and scribes, freeing his disciples from such spiritually deadening influences. He said to those “hypocrites”: “Why is it you also overstep the commandment of God because of your tradition? . . . You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.” Matt. 15:3-9. Did Jesus and his disciples, then, use God’s name freely? Assuredly so, for they all quoted frequently from the Scriptures that contained Jehovah’s name. They often used the Septuagint Version, a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek that began to be prepared in Alexandria about the third century B.C.E., copies of which still contained the Tetragrammaton. True, copies of the Septuagint Version made centuries later followed the Jewish tradition of omitting God’s name. But scrolls or portions of the Greek Septuagint dating from Jesus’ time on earth contain the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew characters. Jesus himself clearly indicated that he used the divine name. For instance, he said in prayer to his Father: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world. . . . I have made your name known to them and will make it known.” (John 17:6, 26) Moreover, Jesus taught his followers to pray: “Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.” (Matt. 6:9) Why would Jesus make those statements unless he had used God’s name? So God’s name was widely used by his new chosen people, spiritual Israel, the Christian congregation. (Gal. 6:16) That is why certain translations of the Greek Scriptures (the “New Testament”) do include Jehovah’s name. For example, this is true of the Greek Scriptures in Hebrew, by Franz Delitzsch (1877); The Emphatic Diaglott, by Benjamin Wilson (1864); The Christian’s Bible—New Testament, by George N. LeFevre (1928), and the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures (1950), as well as other translations. In contrast, the majority of translations have followed the tradition of the Jews and have omitted God’s name. Not long after Jesus’ day, the foretold apostasy began to corrupt the true Christian doctrine and spirit. (2 Thess. 2:3; 2 Pet. 2:1-3) As the long night of the “Dark Ages” set in, the use of the divine name faded out. For many centuries, the very knowledge of God’s name was mainly confined to the cloister—available only to such scholars as monks. Many Jewish religious leaders of the first century C.E. were strongly influenced by pagan Greek philosophy. For example, Philo, a Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, believed that Plato, the famous Greek philosopher, was divinely inspired and taught that God was indefinable and, hence, unnameable. For over 1,000 years the theology of Christendom was molded by the teachings of Plato. See A History of Europe, by H. A. L. Fisher,. p. 52; The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1964 edition, Vol. 18, p. 63. Truthseeker |