STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE BIBLE
Did you know that the Heavenly Father has a name? The surprising truth is that the name of the Creator of the universe is found 6,823 times in ancient Bible text, yet it was concealed by Bible translators who believed it was too holy to use. But the Bible challenges you to discover and use the only true, personal Name of the Creator and the Name of His Son, our Savior the only name that gives Salvation! Read some startling facts right out of the pages of your Bible.
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"Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His Name, and
what is His Son’s Name, if you know it? ” Proverbs 30:4.
”I Am Yahweh; that is My name: and My glory will I not give to another,
neither My praise to graven images.” Isaiah 42:8.
”Sing unto Elohim (our Mighty One), sing praises to His name: extol Him
that rides upon the heavens by His name YAH and rejoice before Him.” Psalms
68:4.
(”YAH” IS THE LAST PART OF THE WORD ”HALLELUYAH.” HALLELUYAH
is the most ancient of all words of praise and means ”Praise YAH.”)
”You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your Elohim to bring it to naught,
for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that misuses His name to bring it to
naught.” Exodus 20: 7. (This is the third commandment.)
”And you shall not swear by My name falsely, neither shall you profane
the name of your Elohim: I Am Yahweh. ” Leviticus 19:12.
From
Bible Translators and Scholars. In the introduction to the Moffatt
Translation (pp.20- 21), James Moffatt makes it clear that he would have had
no hesitation about using the name Yahweh in his translation if he had intended
it for students of the original Scriptures.
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We find in the preface to the Goodspeed translation: ”The Hebrews called
their deity by the name Yahweh, and in shorter form Yah.” This source
admits to using substitutes for the name Yahweh.
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The Revised Standard Version says at Exodus 3:15, ”The word LORD when
spelled with capitol letters stands for the divine name Yahweh (YHWH), which
is here connected with the verb hayah, to be.”
The New Catholic Bible (Catholic Bible Press), at Exodus 3:14 notes, ”I
am who I am’; apparently this utterance is the source of the word Yahweh;
the proper personal name of the God of Israel... Out of reverence for this name
the term ’Adonai,’ ’my Lord,’ was used as a substitute.
The word Lord in the present version represents this traditional usage. The
word Jehovah arose from a false reading of this name as it is written in the
current Hebrew text.”
In the International Bible Encyclopedia of the King James Version published
by Garden City Publishing Co., we note the following under the heading ”Jehovah”:
”It is believed that the correct pronunciation of this word is ’Yahweh.”’
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Look it up yourself, in these sources, Encyclopedia Britannica (Micropedia,
vol. 10): ”Although Christian scholars after the renaissance and reformation
periods used the term Jehovah for YHWH, in the 19 and 20 centuries Biblical
scholars again began to use the form Yahweh. Early Christian writers, such as
Clement of Alexandria in the 2 century. Had used the form Yahweh, thus this
pronunciation of the Tetragrammation was never really lost. Greek transcriptions
also indicated that YHWH should be pronounced Yahweh.”
Webster’s New World Dictionary. ”Yahweh...a form of the Hebrew name
in the Old Testament.” The above information was provided by YNCA, and
shortened for the purposes of this format.
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