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Jehovah

All I know is that the Wikipedia is REALLY letting me down on this!

Facts on the name differ substantially from "The Truth" about it I was raised with.

Interesting link
Some have thought YHWH should be pronounced "Jehovah." In ad 1520, Peter Galatin, the confessor of Pope Leo X, invented this name by interjecting the vowels of Adonai (a-o-a) between the consonants YHWH. This produced the hybrid YaHoWaH, later pronounce "Jehovah." This name, contrived through human reasoning, has no biblical basis.
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And that YHWH was originally merely one of many pagan gods - in fact, a sky god (a god of thunder and lightning). He was called by enemies of Israel 'a god of the hills'. Once ancient Israel sufficiently conquered their neighboring tribes, they took to re-writing their history, and setting YHWH up as a single deity.
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
Originally posted by: exilera
Reminds me of Jehova's Witnesses, aka morons.
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Don't you just love religious intolerance?
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Religious intolerance? Hardly. I know quite a bit about their religion; I dated one for over a year. Judging by what I've learned about their hypocricy and BS, I stand by my assumption.
 
Originally posted by: dderidex
And that YHWH was originally merely one of many pagan gods - in fact, a sky god (a god of thunder and lightning). He was called by enemies of Israel 'a god of the hills'. Once ancient Israel sufficiently conquered their neighboring tribes, they took to re-writing their history, and setting YHWH up as a single deity.
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I'd like to see links to back up your "facts" here please. The word for "god" in ancient Hebrew was "El". "Elohim" is not the plural for "El", but means "the many that think/act as one." YHWH means a singular god -- the unchanging, eternal, self-existent God, the Exodus 3:14 "I am that I am" (but that "am", the "to be" verb, could be past, present, or future tense) -- similar to the Arabic word Allah. It cannot exist in plurality.

It is true that the word Jehovah has no Biblical basis whatsoever.

Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: Vic
It reminds me that there is no "J" in the Hebrew language.
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But in the Latin alphabet, "Jehovah" begins with an "I
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And in the Hebrew, it begins with a "Y". The word was never used though, and the ancient Hebrews called their God, Adonai ("Lord").

Originally posted by: exilera
Originally posted by: jumpr
Originally posted by: exilera
Reminds me of Jehova's Witnesses, aka morons.
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Don't you just love religious intolerance?
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Religious intolerance? Hardly. I know quite a bit about their religion; I dated one for over a year. Judging by what I've learned about their hypocricy and BS, I stand by my assumption.
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It doesn't matter what know about them, a sweeping derogatory generalization like that is religious intolerance no matter how you want to slice it. No matter what you think, it is fact that the most important right of all is the freedom of belief.
 
it is the name of the christian god, improperly translated
i think the proper translation is something along the lines of "iehoa," watch indiana jones and the last crusade for a good translation
 
jehovah to me means jehovah's witness'

idiots that come knocking on your door in the hope that you'll join them in their religious quest

their questions are met by a firm answer...........a slammed door to the face
 
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