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Offline Vladimir

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Name of God?
« on: July 29, 2009, 05:46:27 PM »
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    • I was speaking with my cousin, who is non-Catholic, and he was saying that the Catholics removed the name of God from the Old Testament and replaced it with "LORD" -- is this true? and if so, then why?
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    Name of God?
    « Reply #1 on: July 29, 2009, 10:45:17 PM »
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    • I believe he's thinking of either Yahweh, or Jehovah. As to why they're not used (until the Jerusalem version), I can only give commentary from the D-R version:

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    Exodus 6:3 That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; and my name ADONAI I did not shew them.

    3 "My name Adonai"... The name, which is in the Hebrew text, is that most proper name of God, which signifieth his eternal, self-existent being, Ex. 3. 14, which the Jєωs out of reverence never pronounce; but, instead of it, whenever it occurs in the Bible, they read Adonai, which signifies the Lord; and, therefore, they put the points or vowels, which belong to the name Adonai, to the four letters of that other ineffable name Jod, He, Vau, He. Hence some moderns have framed the name Jehovah, unknown to all the ancients, whether Jєωs or Christians; for the true pronunciation of the name, which is in the Hebrew text, by long disuse, is now quite lost.
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    2 Corinthians 4:3-4 

    And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.
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