Monday, October 31, 2011

"Jehovah is not God's name, that word is the result of an error made by a 13th - century Catholic monk --

-- and Catholics are perceived as particularly misguided by JWs.."

Snippets from Joel S. Peters' article Ten Key Beliefs of the Watch Tower Society. In the Catholic Answers Magazine. November - December 2011 edition.

"Jehovah is not God's name, and in a twist of irony, that word is the result of an error made by a 13th - century Catholic monk -- and Catholics are perceived as particularly misguided by JWs.

"In the Hebrew language, God's name as revealed to Moses is rendered as YHWH -- or Yahweh, meaning I AM.

"Ancient Hebrew was a consonantal language (no vowels).

"Out of reverence for God, faithful Jews would not even speak his name, so when YHWH was written in the biblical scrolls, the scribes would write the markings for the vowel sounds a - o - a for the word adonai (Lord) directly over YHWH so that anyone reading the scroll would know to say adonai rather than Yahweh.

"Along comes our monk who, seeing the vowel markings over YHWH, thought they were part of the actual spelling of God's name and thus combined YHWH with a - o - a, making YaHoWaH, which eventually became Jehovah.

"So every time JWs insist on the[ir] use of God's name, they are actually promoting a corrupted form of it..."

Interesting, huh??!! :)

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