is it true that New Testament Greek always uses the word "Lord," and never "Jehovah,"?

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There is proof that Jehovah's name was in the orignial writtings:

Professor George Howard of the University of Georgia wrote: “Since the Tetragram [four Hebrew letters for the divine name] was still written in the copies of the Greek Bible which made up the Scriptures of the early church, it is reasonable to believe that the N[ew] T[estament] writers, when quoting from Scripture, preserved the Tetragram within the biblical text.”—Journal of Biblical Literature, March 1977, p. 77.

“In pre-Christian Greek [manuscripts] of the O[ld] T[estament], the divine name (yhwh) was not rendered by ‘kyrios’ [lord] as has often been thought. Usually the Tetragram was written out in Aramaic or in paleo-Hebrew letters. . . . At a later time, surrogates [substitutes] such as ‘theos’ [God] and ‘kyrios’ replaced the Tetragram . . . There is good reason to believe that a similar pattern evolved in the N[ew] T[estament], i.e. the divine name was originally written in the NT quotations of and allusions to the OT, but in the course of time it was replaced by surrogates.”—“New Testament Abstracts,” 3, 1977, p. 306.


Even the NKJV has LORD in cap's (Jehovah) in the New Testament.

Matt 4:7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’”

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=4&version=50

Everyone who's studied even a little knows that LORD in cap's in their bible really means "YHWH", or in english "Jehovah"

So the NWT isn't the only newer version of the bible to contain God's name in the NT.

Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the LORD
Shall be saved.’

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=aCTS%202;&version=50;

These are just two of the many times the NKJV uses God's name.

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It is true that the tetragrammation YWHW does not appear in the greek and the JWs have added it. (Aside from jah in Hallelujah). The JWs often quote Dr. Jason Beduhn as a good source for their translation because he does indeed support it. However, I googled him and found that though he supports the NWT, he must disagree with their insertion of Jehovah into the greek for it does not once appear. This is one of, like, two scholars that support the NWT and even they know that it is simply too much and too far to actually change the greek. But the JWs do that whenever and wherever it suits their needs....Show more

Yes it is true. If you read a Greek literal version of the Bible you never find the name Jehovah used in the New Testament.

EDIT: Thomas down below is incorrect. No one but JW's claim the name Jehovah was used in the NT. In fact even when they change the word Lord to Jehovah in the NT they are not consistent. Places where it would call Jesus Jehovah they left as Lord....Show more

Yes, that is true. The Apostles quoted from the Septuagint, which rendered Jehovah (Yahweh) as Lord (Kurios)...Show more

Whether the name is Lord, that does not take away the fact that Jesus does talk about his Father. His Father God Almighty, Yehovah, Allah, Jehovah, or Lord. The name is there and is the God Almighty in the NT. Jesus put his Father there when he talks about his Father.

Introduction to Surah47---Muhammad
"No plots against the Truth or Faith will succeed:
But those who follow both will be strengthened
Be firm in the fight, and Allah will guide.
Rebellion against Allah is destruction: fidelity
Will cool the mind and feed the heart;
It will warm the affections and sweeten life.
Hypocrisy carries its own doom....Show more