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NASB | Acts 16:31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." |
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Subject: Why LJC instead of just Jesus? |
Bible Note: Greetings everyone! Here is a piece of work on the names of God that was written by a friend of mine named Joe.. "The most common name that God is referred to in the Scriptures is the Name "YHWH", spelled Yud, Hey, Waw Hey in Hebrew. Some pronounce this name "Yahweh", some "Yahuweh". Either could be correct. Some not too familiar with Hebrew pronounce it "Jehovah", which cannot possibly be correct. For one, there's no "J" sound in Hebrew. The closest you can get to "Jehovah" is "Yehovah". But it's not a "v" either, because it's well known that the letter Waw, while pronounced like a "V" in modern Hebrew, was pronounced like a "w" in ancient Hebrew. This comes through several old writings, the most prominent might be "Sefer Yetzirah", written within a few hundred years before or after the first century AD, which describes somewhat how the sound was formed. So the closest you get to "Jehovah" would be "Yehowah". Where did "Jehovah" come from? Well, From the Babylonian captivity forward, Jews quit pronouncing God's Name. Some speculate it was because the pagans used His Name in vain, so they didn't want gentiles to hear it pronounced. So they only pronounced it in the temple, where gentiles were not allowed. So when they read the scriptures, and they got to "YHWH", they would not pronounce "Yahweh" but "Adonai" which means "Lord" or "God" or some other euphemism. Because they read it "Adonai" frequently, they often wrote the vowel markings for "Adonai" into some versions of the Tanakh between 500 AD and 1000 AD. So they took the vowels of "Adonai" - namely A,o,ai, and wrote it into YHWH yielding Yahowah. Some Christians, unfamiliar with Hebrew, pronounced the "Y" as a "J" and the "w" as a "v" and said "Jahovah" instead of "Yahowah", not realizing two things;(1) that the vowel markings went with "Adonai", not "YHWH" to begin with AND (2) how to pronounce the "Y" and "W" sounds. So "Jahovah" evolved to "Jehovah", yielding what some people use today. The worst part about this name is that "Hovah", in Hebrew, means "destruction". Thus "Jehovah" or "Yehovah" could be considered to mean "he will destroy". This is why some people not only consider "Jehovah" a wrong pronunciation, but a blasphemous one as well, in that this would actually be calling Him the destroyer - and who is it that comes to steal, kill and destroy??? You get the point. I would not recommend that you EVER use "Jehovah"....and this shows you how far off the "Jehovah's Witnesses" are in their interpretations. Now the Name "YHWH" DOES Appear in the New Testament. It's in the Aramaic version of the New Testament and in the old Greek manuscripts, they use to write "Kurios" (Lord) or "Theos" (God) with a line over the top of the word in places where "YHWH" appears in the Aramaic version of the New Testament. This is consistent with how they recorded where the Name "YHWH" appeared in the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Tanakh). In fact, this is one thing some scholars use as evidence of an Aramaic origin to the New Testament. Because if it was written in Greek, then why the line over "Kurios"? Because that was always a translational notation. Also, the Talmud tells us that the Name YHWH appears in the New Testament, because there is a debate in the Talmud about whether Jews should burn the New Testament. They were not allowed to burn any writings that had the Name YHWH in it. This posed a delimma because they wanted to burn the New Testament when they found it, but couldn't because the Divine Name was in it. But the Divine Name appears in NO copies of the Greek manuscripts. You could burn a manuscript that has "Kurios" with a line over it. But Jewish law forbade burning books with "YHWH" in it. So obviously, the manuscripts that were in circulation when that section of the Talmud was written (3rd-5th century) contained the Name "YHWH" in it somewhere." Blessings, Nolan |