This is what the New World Encyclopedia wants you to believe: "Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible. Jews normally do not pronounce this name, considering it too holy to verbalize. Instead, whenever they encounter this unpronounceable string of consonants, (YHWH) they speak the name Adonai. Orthodox Jews strenuously avoid mentioning or even writing the divine name, preferring such circumlocutions as "the Holy One," "the Name," or the defective writing "G-d."
"In Christian Bibles, Yahweh is usually translated as "the LORD," a rough equivalent to the Hebrew "Adonai." The Hebrew Bible indicates this reading by inserting the vowel pointing from the word Adonai on the consonants YHWH, rather than use the actual vowels. Based on a literal reading of this pointing (יְהוָֹה), many modern Protestant Christians read God's name as Jehovah."
Jordan says, "Whenever you see the name LORD in all caps in a King James Version they're telling you that the Hebrew word is Jehovah. It's not Yahweh. You know how you know? In Exodus 6 He says, 'My name is Jehovah.' That's all it took.
"When you hear people use Yahweh that comes out of the 19th Century German rationalism, a bunch of modernists. When you hear evangelical, fundamentalist Bible conservatives use Yahweh, they've been corrupted by that.
"The reason they say Yahweh instead of Jehovah is because the Germans couldn't pronounce like an Englishman does. In English there's a J; some languages don't have it.
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"Jeremiah 10:11-12 says, [11] Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
[12] He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
"The reason these guys have to have a little 'g' as agents is because they aren't the big G.
"Genesis 1:26-27 says, [26] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
[27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
"Genesis 2:7 [7] And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
"You see how he put a name on the term God? God is a title of superiority. But the God who created everything isn't just God, He's Jehovah; the Lord thy God is God of gods."
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