Is it against the teachings of the Bible to name your kid Jehovah?
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No, it isn't. Consider what's in a name. Is your child the vicar of Christ? No? Then what's wrong with "Mike" which means "Who is like God?" ? Yes, the name "Mike" is a question in the Hebrew language. \n\nWhy do people feel compelled to give children strange names? When you lose him in the mall won't you feel silly yelling, Jehovah,- JEHOVAH, Where are you? And whats with all the last names as first names, like Tyler or Jordan? Anyway, no- it isn't unbiblical to name you kid anything you want. And he can change it later if he wants.
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I do not know if Christianity does this differently, but, in Judaism, we bury objects with God's name on them.  If it's respectful enough for humans, it's probably good enough for Bibles.
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to say the name of god, as is told to the jews by way of the tanakh, is to profane the creator. Hashem is "the name" with emphasis on THE.
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What you name your child is ENTIRELY up to you.  What you may want to consider when naming your child is how well it flows with your last, is there any potential for teasing, is the name too popular or really obscure. If you are into this type of thing, you may want to look into the meaning of the name and if there is any biblical connection to the name.\n\nBut really, no matter what you name your child, he/she will have to live with it the rest of his/her life, so choose wisely.
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Itis not atheist  writing God in that way,\n mostly Jews write God in that fashion. In the old testament the name of God was so Holy to the Jews that they left out the vowels when they wrote it in the hebrew. That way no one could speak the name of God. . That's why some people pronounce the name of God Jehovah and some pronounce it JHWH(pronounced Yaweh). I've also heard it pronounced JA. Since the vowels were left out, nobody knows the real pronounciation. The Jews when they write the name God in english they leave out the vowel 'O' and it is written G-d.
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Exclaiming something like “Jesus Christ! Get the hell out of my way!” while driving on a highway has nothing whatsoever to do with the admonishment in the Bible about taking God’s name in vain. First of all, the name of God was lost many centuries ago because of the prohibition against speaking it aloud and writing it down. We know many substitutes for it today, but do not know the actual name. Even if we did know the name today, using it as a word of profanity still would not be the admonishment in question. What the Bible does caution against is, after learning the name, not calling upon that name in everything you say or do. That would be taking the name in vain (or for nothing).
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Yeshua used to be a common Jewish name, but I have not known this to be a common thing today.  Jews do not take the names of what they would consider to be a false God, and since Christians worship Yeshua (Jesus), then they do not take that name, and some will not even pronounce it!  They will say "Yoshke" or "Yoshkele" or something like that.\n\nThe rest of those are not Jewish names.  But some may have Hebrew equivalents.  For example, if I'm not mistaken, James = Jacob - Yaakov.  There are PLENTY of Jewish Yaakov's.
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The reason there are so many false religions is that Satan is working to confuse mankind and deny God the worship which the Almighty deserves:\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:3,4) If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through\n\n\nIt is very surprising that most people do not use any form of the divine name. It's not exactly wrong to call the Almighty by the impersonal "God", just as it's not wrong to call one's offspring "Child". If we want a familiar and close relationship, however, it makes sense to use the personal name of someone we love. The Scriptures encourage us to use God's personal name.\n\nThe Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) seems to accurately pronounce the divine name. Just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English.\n\nThe important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! The name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God” or “Lord”. If you speak English, feel free to use the name "Jehovah".\n\n(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth\n\n(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them\n\n\nThat last Scripture helps self-described Christians understand that they also should be working to make known God's name by means of house-to-house preaching. Which religion is doing that?\n\nJehovah's Witnesses.\nhttp://watchtower.org
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becuase the most bible were re-written by some people who called themselves scholars and  thought it is too sacred and that they strictly followed the commandment not to take his name in vain so they reverted to titles such as lord, god and as such.\n\nbut the truth is, are we going to desecrate god's name if we use? even jesus his son, in his model prayer urged us to sanctify his name, so then how can we sanctify it if we are too afraid to use it?\n\nits not becuase you are not one of the Jehovah's Witnesses taht would prohibit you to use his name\n\nanother reason to use his name specially if youre praying, is that it would identify WHICH god you are talking to!! hello!! are you not aware that even satan was called god? god of evil for that matter, that even in rome... a lot of god and goddeses exist!!
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Why do many Bible translations not use the personal name of God or use it only a few times?\n\nThe preface of the Revised Standard Version explains: “For two reasons the Committee has returned to the more familiar usage of the King James Version: (1) the word ‘Jehovah’ does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew; and (2) the use of any proper name for the one and only God, as though there were other gods from whom he had to be distinguished, was discontinued in Judaism before the Christian era and is entirely inappropriate for the universal faith of the Christian Church.” (Thus their own view of what is appropriate has been relied on as the basis for removing from the Holy Bible the personal name of its Divine Author, whose name appears in the original Hebrew more often than any other name or any title. They admittedly follow the example of the adherents of Judaism, of whom Jesus said: “You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.”—Matt. 15:6.)\n\nTranslators who have felt obligated to include the personal name of God at least once or perhaps a few times in the main text, though not doing so every time it appears in Hebrew, have evidently followed the example of William Tyndale, who included the divine name in his translation of the Pentateuch published in 1530, thus breaking with the practice of leaving the name out altogether.\n\nWas the name Jehovah used by the inspired writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures?\n\nJerome, in the fourth century, wrote: “Matthew, who is also Levi, and who from a publican came to be an apostle, first of all composed a Gospel of Christ in Judaea in the Hebrew language and characters for the benefit of those of the circumcision who had believed.” (De viris inlustribus, chap. III) This Gospel includes 11 direct quotations of portions of the Hebrew Scriptures where the Tetragrammaton is found. There is no reason to believe that Matthew did not quote the passages as they were written in the Hebrew text from which he quoted.\n\nOther inspired writers who contributed to the contents of the Christian Greek Scriptures quoted hundreds of passages from the Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. Many of these passages included the Hebrew Tetragrammaton right in the Greek text of early copies of the Septuagint. In harmony with Jesus’ own attitude regarding his Father’s name, Jesus’ disciples would have retained that name in those quotations.—Compare John 17:6, 26.\n\nIn Journal of Biblical Literature, George Howard of the University of Georgia wrote: “We know for a fact that Greek-speaking Jews continued to write ???? within their Greek Scriptures. Moreover, it is most unlikely that early conservative Greek-speaking Jewish Christians varied from this practice. Although in secondary references to God they probably used the words [God] and [Lord], it would have been extremely unusual for them to have dismissed the Tetragram from the biblical text itself. . . . Since the Tetragram was still written in the copies of the Greek Bible which made up the Scriptures of the early church, it is reasonable to believe that the N[ew] T[estament] writers, when quoting from Scripture, preserved the Tetragram within the biblical text. . . . But when it was removed from the Greek O[ld] T[estament], it was also removed from the quotations of the O[ld] T[estament] in the N[ew] T[estament]. Thus somewhere around the beginning of the second century the use of surrogates [substitutes] must have crowded out the Tetragram in both Testaments.”—Vol. 96, No. 1, March 1977, pp. 76, 77.\n\nWhich form of the divine name is correct—Jehovah or Yahweh?\n\nNo human today can be certain how it was originally pronounced in Hebrew. Why not? Biblical Hebrew was originally written with only consonants, no vowels. When the language was in everyday use, readers easily provided the proper vowels. In time, however, the Jews came to have the super
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I am one of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses.  We are more familiarly known as Jehovah's witnesses, but we are Christian as we believe in what Jesus said. Jehovah is God's name.  The Tetragrammaton (There is no font to write the actual 4 lettered name) appears in the original bible text more than 7000 times but has been removed from most translations as it is supersticiously thought to be too holy to utter.  Jesus is God's first and only begotten angelic son, created untold ages before man.\n\nWe believe that man's home, the Earth, is where we were meant to be all along.  The free gift we recieve if we want it is everlasting life on Earth, not in heaven - although some do go there to rule with Jesus as kings and priests.  There are many other things we believe - it's from the Bible, ask one of us for more information.
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I'm sorry to have to take issue with the rabbi, but "John" is derived from Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning "Yahweh has been gracious [or 'has shown favor']." (The German name Johann is a bit closer to the original.)   It is NOT the same name as "Jonathan" (except for those who in more recent times have created the name "Jon" AS a nickname for Jonathan).  \n\nNote that "Jo" is not "God" (for which the Hebrew uses El or the "plural of majesty", "Elohim").  It is from "Ja/Yah/Yahu", the short form of the personal name of God in Hebrew (widely thought to be "Yahweh", traditionally considered very sacred and so replaced by "the LORD" [Hebrew, "Adonai"] to avoid speaking it).\n\nA related Hebrew name in that of the prophet Samuel's mother - "Hannah" [ḥānā], "gracious"(see 1 Samuel 1-2).  The name John also points to one of the most important proclamations of the Old Testament, that the LORD (Yahweh) is a "gracious" God who has shown his people grace/favor (see especially Exodus 34:6, whose expressions are echoed in many other places).  \n\nIncidentally, Hebrew names like Jonathan ["Yahweh has given"] and John ["Yahweh has been gracious"], and many others are "sentence names".  They make some confessional statement about God, and/or may be related to the circumstances of the child's birth.  These two names, for instance, would be very appropriate for a LONG-awaited child.  It is, in fact, precisely the circumstance of the birth of John the Baptist to the elderly Zechariah and Elizabeth [Luke 1]\n\n------------------\n\n"William" (as already noted) is originally a Germanic name, meaning something like "valiant protector".  Its popularity in English owed much to "William the Conqueror" (1066).  Actually, the Conqueror's name (and so our "William") does NOT come directly from the Germanic form of the name (which would be "Wilhelm")but from the Norman French form (from Old French) Guillaume.   Also, the "helm" part is related to the word "helmet" and might more literally refer to that object used for protection rather than just the abstract idea of protection.   At any rate, it is a name given to a warrior-leader who is regarded as the helmet/protection of a group of people.\n\nThe addition of an -s to form a surname is a common practice in English to indicate a "DESCENDANT of William" (In other words, adding an 's' to form a surname is essentially the same as adding "son" as in "Williamson", etc.)
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Jehovah's Witnesses are an exemplary group of Christians who are working hard to follow the example and commands of their Head Jesus Christ and the Almighty Jehovah God.\n\nA respectful nickname for an adherent of the religion is "a Witness". Referring to a Jehovah's Witness as "a Jehovah" is both ignorant and disrespectful. It ignores the fact that "Jehovah" is the divine name of the Almighty.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses are unsurprised by bigotry and hatred from this world. Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:\n\n(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.\n\n(Luke 6:22) “Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.\n\n(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.\n\n(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.\n\n\nIt seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”
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because they told me the truth, jesus is God's son and not God as believed by many christian religions, noer his he part of a trinity. Jehovah is God's name whether it is taken out of the bible or not.\n\nthe first contact I had with witnesses, was when my mother said close the curtains and turn off the TV them bible bashers are here again, well that made me curious to know what they had to say, I had a freind who's parents studied, and bought a book printed by the witnesses in a charity shop, after reading it cover to cover, it touched a nerve.\n\nbut a few years went by and me and my partner moved in together, he worked for a JW and came home with stories I could not believe about the world ending and some dragon or other, but after our first christmas in our new house we decided to contact the witnesses and because we knew some of they're beliefs we took down all the decorations so we would not offend them.\n\nthe couple that came were an older married couple whos child went to school with my husband and who he had known for some time, and the main thing I remember from that meeting was the love that they spoke of within the congregation, so we started to study, within 3 months we got married because we were living together, my husband got baptised and I got pregnant, thats over 18 yuears ago now, we had some hard times as non of our families share our beliefs and we went from our first christmas to understand how wrong it is to celebrate that.\n\nI am not and have never been brainwashed into thinking what I beleive, I have struggled with it at times and we are encouraged to study the bible avidly. I now spend most of my time sharing the things I have learned with others in the door to door ministry.\n\nand just to let you know hiding behind closed curtains only means we will call back at another time!\nif you really don't want us to call, ask for your house to be put down as a DO NOT CALL at your local congregation then you will not be called on.
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The term "Allah" simply means "the [one] god", implying a single Almighty deity reminiscient of the Judeo-Christian "Yahweh" / "Jehovah". However, it is significant that "Allah" is clearly NOT a personal name, while the Hebrew Tetragrammaton clearly *IS* a personal name for Almighty God.\n\nIt's not exactly wrong to call the Almighty by the impersonal "God", just as it's not wrong to call one's offspring "Child". Faithful men of the Holy Scriptures used both "God" and a form of "Jehovah" when they referred to and addressed the Almighty. However, the term "Allah" seems intended specifically to reject Judeo-Christian spiritual heritage.\n\nIf we want a familiar and close relationship, it makes sense to use the personal name of someone we love. The Scriptures encourage us to use God's personal name.\n\nThe Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) does seem to accurately pronounce the divine name. Just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English.\n\nThe important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! The name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God” or “Lord”, especially if you speak Hebrew. If you speak English, feel free to use the name "Jehovah".\n\n(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth\n\n(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/na/index.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/na/
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Very different.\n\nPsalm 83:18 (King James Version)\nKing James Version (KJV)\nPublic Domain\n\n    18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
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We believe in the Bible as much as others do in their 'holy' books. But our God is one of "LOVE" not hate.\nWe  put God first in our lives, not hatred. Even though many disagree on how to do it, or what name to use.\nIn my case it's Jehovah, the name God Gave HIMSELF that some religons are so busy takeing out of the new bibles.\n\nBy the BY, my favorite link;\nhttp://watchtower.org