I am talking about pronounciation. The name of the Lord as you write it is not in the Old Testament over 6000 times (except in some modern “translations” where it has been added by force): instead, the *tetragrammaton *is. However, due to the fact that it was considered, both by the Jewish and by the Christians, as a holy name, the Jewish themselves employed words such as Adonai, HaShem, Elohim, and the Christians employed Kurios (Greek), Dominus (Latin), Lord (English), Signore (Italian), et cetera. This is not something that the modern Church did: this is something that the very apostles did in their letters, as an instruction for us.
The Bible does not state that we are to literally call upon His name. It states instead:
thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain
We are to
know His name (which, again, all Christians do) and
teach it to our children, and we are to
praise His name (“
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”), but such name is too worthy to be written down and pronounced in accordance with our will.
Now consider that the name of Christ,
ישוע, includes the ineffable name of God (“
Yahweh saves”) and the apostles, by the light of the Holy Spirit, wrote that "
at the name of Jesus all knees shall bend in heaven, on earth, and under the earth". Christ Himself has been given “
the name over all other names”, and it is to the name of Christ that the Scriptures refer when commanding to
call upon the name of the Lord for salvation.
I say unto you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. …] for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Consider that not even Christ pronounced out loud the name of the Father, but rather called Him with the kindest of all names,
abba’, dad…
I have known of only one community so far that, contrary to a millenary tradition that goes back not just to the beginning of Christianity but throughout Jewish history as well, insists in taking the ineffable name of God as often as possible, without any solemnity or reverence, particularly as a sign of their refusal of the divinity of Christ. You wouldn’t be a member of this community, by any chance?
