Many people today ask whether Jesus spoke God’s personal name—often represented as YHWH (sometimes rendered “Jehovah” or “Yahweh”). Some religious groups, primarily Jehovah’s Witnesses, say Jesus must have used it regularly and taught others to do the same. Others say there is no evidence he did.This video brings together the historical, linguistic, and biblical evidence […]
For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” Regarding this verse the New World Translation study Bible states: “Calling on Jehovah’s name is broad in meaning and involves more than just knowing and using God’s personal name. The expression “to call on (someone’s) name” has its background in the Hebrew Scriptures. […]
When Jesus said that he made God’s name known to his disciples, they already knew the divine name. He was not giving them its correct pronunciation. Nor was he giving them a mandate to make known to the world the name of his father. But along with revealing God’s character and personality, there was something […]
In the previous post “Did the Apostles Proclaim the Name Jehovah?” a careful review of the scriptures clearly demonstrated a shift in the degree of prominence given to the divine name from the Old Testament to the New. The apostles, instead of bearing witness to the Father and emphasizing his name, in obedience to God […]
Before I begin with the subject at hand I thought it would be helpful, for those interested in technical accuracy, to make a small clarification. Since the exact pronunciation of the divine name is unknown, it is not the aim of this post nor of the one previous to this, “Did Jesus Proclaim the Name […]
In a previous post entitled: “Restoring the Name Jehovah to the New Testament?” I examined what scholars and researchers had to say about the occurrence of the tetragrammaton in the Septuagint and earliest copies of the Christian writings. That article began with comments made by governing body member Geoffrey Jackson in a 2018 JW Broadcast […]