Why Jehovah`s Witnesses are wrong emphasising the name Jehovah.

by smiddy3 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Phizzy

  For those not familiar with the Shashu people, and the original Yahweh or Jehovah , from Wikik :

  " Regarding the name yhw3, Michael Astour observed that the "hieroglyphic rendering corresponds very precisely to the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH, or Yahweh, and antedates the hitherto oldest occurrence of that divine name – on the Moabite Stone – by over five hundred years."[7] K. Van Der Toorn concludes: "By the 14th century BC, before the cult of Yahweh had reached Israel, groups of Edomites and Midianites worshipped Yahweh as their god."

  Notice the phrase " before the cult of Yahweh had reached Israel " . Our Hebrew/Jewish friends were a little late to the Party, and similar to many peoples, borrowed their god from neighbouring peoples.

  This will come as a shock to most JW's.
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  truth_b_known

  Does is feel like arguing over whether we should say Woden or Odin, Zeus or Jupiter?
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  JW GoneBad

  It's always a blast picking apart the stupidity of this cult & it's bizarre teachings & doctrines. That said...getting back to the opening thread:

  "Why Jehovah's Witnesses Are Wrong Emphasizing The Name Jehovah"

  Forget the origin of this man-made name...the fact that Jesus himself never mentions the name nor does he spend any time correcting the then Jews and his disciples for not using the name in worship speaks volumes about how not so Divine this concoction of a name by a Spanish Monk in the 13th century is!