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Are there people out there that don't want God's name mentioned at all. Even in the bible?
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- Anonymous2 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes and they are reprobates
- Anonymous2 years ago
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- TeeMLv 72 years ago
Only the foolish.
(Psalm 14:1) “14 The foolish one says in his heart: “There is no Jehovah.”. . .”
Concerning the ancient rabbinic (not Biblical) injunction against pronouncing the name.
A. Marmorstein, a rabbi, wrote in his book The Old Rabbinic Doctrine of God:
“There was a time when this prohibition [of the use of the divine name] was entirely unknown among the Jews . . . Neither in Egypt, nor in Babylonia, did the Jews know or keep a law prohibiting the use of God’s name, the Tetragrammaton, in ordinary conversation or greetings. Yet, from the third century B.C.E. till the third century A.C.E. such a prohibition existed and was partly observed.”
“Hellenistic [Greek-influenced] opposition to the religion of the Jews, the apostasy of the priests and nobles, introduced and established the rule not to pronounce the Tetragrammaton in the Sanctuary [temple in Jerusalem].”
Not only was the use of the name allowed in earlier times but, as Dr. A. Cohen states in Everyman’s Talmud: says:
“There was a time when the free and open use of the Name even by the layman was advocated . . . It has been suggested that the recommendation was based on the desire to distinguish the Israelite from the [non-Jew].”
“In the Biblical period there seems to have been no scruple against [the divine name’s] use in daily speech. The addition of Jah or Jahu to personal names, which persisted among the Jews even after the Babylonian exile, is an indication that there was no prohibition against the employment of the four-lettered Name. But in the early Rabbinic period the pronunciation of the Name was restricted to the Temple service.”
“The patriarch Abraham “invoked the LORD by name.” (Genesis 12:8)
(The Knowledge of God in Ancient Israel)
“Unfortunately, when God is spoken of as ‘the Lord,’ the phrase, though accurate, is a cold and colorless one . . . One needs to remember that by translating YHWH or Adonay as ‘the Lord’ one introduces into many passages of the Old Testament a note of abstraction, formality and remoteness that is entirely foreign to the original text.”
Professor G. T. Manley —New Bible Dictionary, edited by J. D. Douglas, 1985, p. 430
“A study of the word ‘name’ in the O[ld] T[estament] reveals how much it means in Hebrew. The name is no mere label, but is significant of the real personality of him to whom it belongs. . . . When a person puts his ‘name’ upon a thing or another person the latter comes under his influence and protection.”
Also
American Standard Bible Preface:
"... "Jehovah" for LORD or GOD is one which will be unwelcome to many, because of the frequency and familiarity of the terms displaced. But the American Revisers, after a careful consideration, were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament ..."
New American Standard Bible:
"There is yet another name which is particularly assigned to God as His special or proper name, this is, the four letters YHWH. This name has not been pronounced by the Jews because of reverence for the great sacredness of the divine name. Therefore, in has been consistently translated "LORD".
It is interesting that the NASB reverted back to what the translators of the ASB called "a Jewish superstition"
Strong’s Definition, Published in 1890:
H3068 יְהֹוָה yehôvâh yeh-ho-vaw'
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord.
BDB Definition, Published in 1906:
H3068 יהוה yehôvâh
Jehovah = “the existing One”
1) the proper name of the one true God
NASEC Definition, Published in 1981 revised 1998:
H3068 יהוה
Yhvh (i.e. יהוה, Yehovah or יהוה, Yahveh) (217d); from H1933b;
Interesting from 1890 to 1998, Yehovah (translated into English as Jehovah) continues to be the approved and accepted name of God.
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- 2 years ago
Not really, but don't dare try to pronounce the Holy Name of God. There are various ways, but we don't know which is right, and even if the right one is picked, beware when saying it.
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- 2 years ago
Yep and since it's the very last days there will be people that will hate God and try to kill all the GOOD Christian's
- Anonymous2 years ago
Friend take a look at the average person here how many people do you see calling God by the name Yahweh or by Jehovah? Me and a few others but for the most part they hate that name.
- Anonymous2 years ago
I don't think people care. Gods have many names. Zeus, Odin, Allah. just to name a few.
- Anonymous2 years ago
Probably
- EddieJLv 72 years ago
God's "name" is not mentioned even once in the NT.
If you want to go back to the OT, which is the Jewish Bible, then you should listen to Jews, who say that the Tetragrammaton is NOT God's #$%& -- just a placeholder for it.