How do you feel about the name Jehovah?

by JWdaughter 62 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • JWdaughter
    JWdaughter

    Do you use it anymore? Do you care? Do you cringe when you hear it?

    I am curious about the attitudes we hold about the NAME.

  • Warlock
    Warlock

    I still use it, and I still view him as God.

    Warlock

  • material BOY
    material BOY

    yeah i use it too.

  • Genesis
    Genesis

    I prefer Jehobah, it is way funnier !

  • Sirona
    Sirona

    Jehovah is a modern interpretation of an older name. It doesn't hold any power for me anymore. Being polytheistic (more specifically, that gods are aspects of divinity as experienced by human beings) I cannot deny he is "a god", however, he is a god I wouldn't care to meet.

    The God of the Witnesses "Jehovah" is a construct of their collective 6 million minds and as such is scarier than the traditional Jehovah.

    Sirona

  • Moomin
    Moomin

    I'm still very confused about it but have forced myself not to use it until I have figured out what I think I should do. Until then, I just call him 'Father' like Jesus did. Sometimes it doesn't feel right not using his name but I don't know if thats because it is all I have ever known him by.

    Moomin

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    I never use it in a reverential way. I never capitalise it when I comment on this forum.

    I use it usually when I see someone I've not met for a while, and they ask me if I'm still a jw.

  • lowden
    lowden

    At best, a fictitious god of ancient Judaism.

    At worst, a revolting foul stench of a deity that cares not for it's followers. A genocidal shit that has no sense of humanity or true love and fellow feeling.

    All that Jehovah signifies to me is evil, wickedness and pain.

    Peace

    Lowden

  • Wasanelder Once
    Wasanelder Once

    Its right up there with Santa Claus and the others. I don't have any business with them and I don't have any business with him, it, whatever.

    W.Once

  • Sirona
    Sirona
    At worst, a revolting foul stench of a deity that cares not for it's followers. A genocidal shit that has no sense of humanity or true love and fellow feeling.

    Well put! ROFL

    Sirona

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