JW's came to visit me today

[VWcrazy]

I guess I will need to pray to God to please lead Sklemetti out of the confusion of the Falsetower and back into His Church.

 

[cascherman]

Thank you for your question. I would recommend you will find your answer in the following brochure:

The Divine Name That Will Endure Forever

Apparently you object to using “Jehovah” as God’s personal name in English, because it’s not the exact way it was written or spoken in the original Hebrew.

Do you also object to the following list of names, all based on the same English version of Jehovah and found throughout Catholic Bibles? If so, have you expressed your concern to the Catholic translators that all these names are incorrect?

Jeho-addah [possibly, Jehovah Has Decked Himself]
Jeho-addan [Jehovah Is Pleasure]
Jeho-addin [Jehovah Is Pleasure]
Jeho-ahaz [May Jehovah Take Hold; Jehovah Has Taken Hold]
Jeho-ash
Jeho-hanan [Jehovah Has Shown Favor; Jehovah Has Been Gracious]
Jeho-iachin [probably, Jehovah Has Firmly Established]
Jeho-iada [May Jehovah Know]
Jeho-iakim [possibly, Jehovah Raises Up]
Jeho-nadab [Jehovah Is Willing]
Jeho-nathan [Jehovah Has Given]
Jeho-ram [Jehovah Is High (Exalted)]
Jeho-shabeath [Jehovah Is Plenty]
Jeho-shama [Jehovah Has Heard (Listened)”]
Jeho-shaphat [Jehovah Is Judge]
Jeho-shua [Jehovah Is Salvation]

Please show me where each of these is used in a Catholic Bible. Or show me a few examples.

 

[BibleSteve]

Please show me where each of these is used in a Catholic Bible. Or show me a few examples.

Just google any of these names (without the - ) and you will find they are names of people in the Bible who’s names are translated into English using the same form of the divine name “Jehovah”.

For example:

Jeho-addah (just google: Jehoaddah)

To find specific Catholic mention of each person, just google their name along with Catholic.

For example:

Google: Jehoaddah Catholic

 

[sklemetti]

I guess I will need to pray to God to please lead Sklemetti out of the confusion of the Falsetower and back into His Church.

Then begin.

But first go to www.jwproclaimers.org and listen
to the teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses so you will
know what you are talking about.

And forget the Watchtower. Just listen to JWs.

 

[VWcrazy]

And forget the Watchtower. Just listen to JWs

Listening to JWs encourages all Christians to increase their prayers that the JWs be freed from their false religion and to return to the one Church Christ established.

 

[cascherman]

Just google any of these names (without the - ) and you will find they are names of people in the Bible who’s names are translated into English using the same form of the divine name “Jehovah”.

For example:

Jeho-addah (just google: Jehoaddah)

To find specific Catholic mention of each person, just google their name along with Catholic.

For example:

Google: Jehoaddah Catholic

I’m sorry, I don’t go by google links for my scholarship. If you would like to actually show me by giving me a link I would be more than happy to see it. And we are talking about God here not just ‘people in the Bible’. I want to see God referred to by these names.

 

[cascherman]

And forget the Watchtower. Just listen to JWs.

Actually when it comes to learning about Jehovah’s Witnesses I would prefer going to the Watchtower. Every JW I have talked to likes stressing their few conversion points and if you ask them another question about something else they are either uncomfortable, give a different answer than another JW, or will change the subject.

If the Watchtower published it, a JW cannot deny it, so I prefer to research from the ‘authority’ of the JW religion.

Now when it comes down to ministering to a JW ofcourse one would want to deal with that JW’s personal convictions.

 

[BibleSteve]

I’m sorry, I don’t go by google links for my scholarship. If you would like to actually show me by giving me a link I would be more than happy to see it. And we are talking about God here not just ‘people in the Bible’. I want to see God referred to by these names.

Huh?

The Catholic Church has specifically chosen to translate the Hebrew names of multiple Bible characters into English by using the Jeho- prefix of their name because their name means “Jehovah is _______”.

Doing a google search will pull up multitudes of Catholic Bible’s and documents that will show you this point for yourself.

 

[BibleSteve]

I’m sorry, I don’t go by google links for my scholarship. If you would like to actually show me by giving me a link I would be more than happy to see it. And we are talking about God here not just ‘people in the Bible’. I want to see God referred to by these names.

Chris,

I believe the points we were discussing is that you objected to “Jehovah” because it wasn’t the exact spelling or pronunciation of the original Hebrew Name (YHWH).

I pointed out that Catholics themselves use this form of God’s name because they translated all these others peoples names using Jeho_______.

Instead of coming up with some English name equivalent of YH_____ they choose Jeho_______

I asked you if you objected to them using Jeho_______.

I also asked about why using “Jesus” was acceptable since that wasn’t the spelling or pronunciation he and his family used for him.

 

[cascherman]

The Catholic Church has specifically chosen to translate the Hebrew names of multiple Bible characters into English by using the Jeho- prefix of their name because their name means “Jehovah is _______”.

Doing a google search will pull up multitudes of Catholic Bible’s and documents that will show you this point for yourself.

ok, who are you talking about here? I don’t know of any names that start with Jeho----. I can’t defend a practice I don’t know about.

 

[BibleSteve]

ok, who are you talking about here? I don’t know of any names that start with Jeho----. I can’t defend a practice I don’t know about.

Dear Chris,

Here’s some useful information about “Jehovah” from the Catholic Encyclopedia:

newadvent.org/cathen/08329a.htm

All of the following Bible character names were originally Yah_____ in Hebrew, but Catholic translators chose to change them to the English form Jeho_______. The only name they chose keep the Hebrew version of Yah_____ was Yah-weh.

www.catholic.org/bible

Jeho-addah (1 Chron 8:36)
Jeho-addan (2 Chron 25:1)
Jeho-addin (2 Kings 14:2)
Jeho-ahaz (2 Kings 10:35)
Jeho-ash (2 Kings 11:2)
Jeho-hanan (1 Chron 26:3)
Jeho-iachin (2 Kings 24:6)
Jeho-iada (2 Chron 23:1)
Jeho-iakim (Jer 1:3)
Jeho-nadab (2 Sam 13:3)
Jeho-nathan (2 Chron 17:8)
Jeho-ram (2 Kings 1:17)
Jeho-shabeath (2 Kings 22:11)
Jeho-shaphat (1 Kings 4:3)

Francis B. Denio, who studied and taught Hebrew for 40 years says:

“Jehovah misrepresents Yahweh no more that Jeremiah misrepresents Yirmeyahu. The settled connotation of Isaiah and Jeremiah forbid questioning their right. Usage has given them the connotations proper for designating the personalities which these words represent. Much the same is true of Jehovah. It is not barbarism. It has already many of the connotations needed for the proper name of the covenant God of Israel. There is no other word which can faintly compare with it. For centuries it has been gathering these connotations. No other word approaches this name in fullness of associations required. The use of any other word falls so far short of the proper ideas that it is a serious blemish in a translation.”

 

[Syele]

So yeah, about my OP. Any ideas? and how about sharing that questionnaire?