WT Says Jehovah a mistake (page 6)

Farkel

Gary,

: , Once I asked the Rabbi what God's name was and he asked me. "If there is only one God, why is it important?".

Yes. Exactly. That's why I call him the "Creator" in my not-so-humble entreaties. There can only be one of these. Unless a committee did it. If so, we are all probably screwed, because committees screw up everything. They made a horse into a camel, didn't they?

A REAL God wouldn't bother about the proper placements of vowels OR consonants, and even if he did, he would have made darned sure we knew which was which. Only a God made in the confusion of men's minds would care about that.

That's all I have to have about that.

Farkel

Satanus

Gary

Good point from the rabbi. That you aren't concerned about the invisible is ok. I do sense a higher power, though. The nearest description of it could be the daoist way. How someone could make an issue out of putting a name on something he hasn't experienced seems petty.

Jwben

A poster pointed to a page in their interlinear where they admit that yahweh is more accurate. The wt brags about 'restoring' the divine name to their bible. They really never did that. They use the acceptance of other screwed up bible names as an excuse to use a screwed up name for their god. That would tell me that the name of their god is only as important as any other bible name. It's either that, or because they are stuck with it becuase they are named after it.

SS

Edited by - saintsatan on 18 August 2002 22:36:46

garybuss

Hi Farkel

I would have thought that the Society that wanted to claim they were appointed by God himself would have thought to have gotten his name right like Heaven says. Oh well!

I don't suppose we will be seeing any Awake! articles on this topic any time sooh huh?

gb

teejay

YK, Nice dodge from addressing the information by calling me a hypocrite. You're smooth.

Saint,

YK ain't smooth... he greasy.

His original post in this thread was a weak argument, imo. He used the argument that the watchtower could distance itself from the quote in the forward of the Byington translation simply because its authors hadn't written it but the corporation had merely acquired the copyright and (therefore) the privilege to print (and sell... uh, I mean "place") it for a while.

To that I say, bulldust. Whatever came out of those watchtower printing plants was THERE'S. So, whatever the forward said, they must've agreed with as it could then be legally, morally and ethically pinned on *them*. How could they say (or present an argument) otherwise?

They printed it (the translation), sold it, used it in the meetings. Probably still do? They, therefore, SAID IT (the quote found in the forward of the transl.).

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btw, the information presented here on the history of the name, the letter J, etc. was more than I ever wanted to know. Interesting, though.

jwsons

I just wonder why You Know tried to defend this stupid thing.

Imagine, there is a book in the market which mentions your father's name many times, but the foreword said it mentions your father's name just to prove that your father is a blunder ! And You Know tried to publish it under the name of WacoTower and Dark Society !!!!???? To promote his father in that stupid "blunder"? Hey guys come here I just published a book to promote my father is a blunder, and I'm happy, enjoy with that idea, so I multiple a heaps of copies of that book. I think You Know's picture should have a sign behind, wrote "Mental Health Ward."

jwsons

Edited by - jwsons on 20 August 2002 13:12:5

Satanus

TJ

Greasy. Yah, i think that's it.

SS

CharlesTaze

http://www.divinename.net

Usually, God's name is presented as fundamental in the monotheistic religions, but its pronunciation is controversial (YeHoWaH, Yahve, Jehovah,...). However, the key to unlock this mystery was provided by the famous Maimonides 800 years ago, when he wrote that the Name of God (the tetragram YHWH) "is read as it is written". The paradox starts and ends here with these intriguing words.

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