[muawiyah]

Maybe in your translation, but I use English myself, which is a satisfactory language for this day and age.

That's so pretentious to use the YHWH business when EL is probably closer to the original.

You do, of course, pray after the manner of Ma-Nu (Noah in the Christian Bible) ~ he would begin "OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM".

[Michael Goldsberry]

Oh, yes of course... English. Well, that's good as I have a very hard time with Hebrew myself.

Okay, back to God it is then.

[WVNan]

That's so pretentious to use the YHWH business when EL is probably closer to the original.

Uh....actually both names are used pretty equally in the Old Testament. Most scholars agree that there are at least 4 writers of the first five books of the Old Testament. The "J" writer (from Judah) used YHWH as the name for God. The "E" writer(from Israel) called God El or Elohim (plural).

[Iam1ru1-2]

"That's so pretentious to use the YHWH business when EL is probably closer to the original."

You continue to show your total ignorance of Biblical history. "El or Elohim" was FIRST name that was given to mankind by God in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis He revealed a second name to Abraham: "EL Shaddai" - "God Almighty", But in Exodus, He reveals another of His Names to Moses (Moshe). Exodus 6:2-3 : And God spoke to Moses and said to him: "I AM the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob, as "God Almighty", but by My Name LORD I was NOT KNOWN TO THEM. LORD is the English for YHWH.