Replies

Considering his name is JHVH, or IHVH depending on the script used, your little "G-d" tag is nothing more than pretension.

Which "God" are you trying not to offend? Thor? Odin? Zeus? They are all "God's"... yet you don't see the faithful saying "J-piter" or "Ath-na".

Considering his name is JHVH, or IHVH depending on the script used, your little "G-d" tag is nothing more than pretension.

Why is it my "little G-D" tag?" I'm not Jewish. However, unlike you, I respect my friends who are Jewish and choose to to spell "God" as "G-d."

yet you don't see the faithful saying "J-piter" or "Ath-na".

For that matter, you don't see the faithful of Jupiter or Athena saying much of anything lately...

Considering his name is JHVH, or IHVH depending on the script used, your little "G-d" tag is nothing more than pretension

Where to start? Wisdom often chases after disrespect, or apparently in this case, simple education would suffice. Maybe a Google search should precede some posts.

Considering that ancient Jewish Scribes, whenever they would write the Name of God, would first wash before writing, it is entirely appropriate for some modern believers to at least treat the writing of any form of His name with some respect. Mocking those people and that practice here in FreeRepublic is a sad thing indeed.

First, the people who would not type out the full word "God" - would neither type out the Tetragrammaton, so their consistancy should not be called into question. Also, the letter "J" does NOT exist in Hebrew so there is no such thing as "some scripts" containing the letters "JHVH". Neithter is the "Word" "Jehovah" not found in any Hebrew Scriptures - it is an English INVENTION, which came from a basic misunderstanding of the same concept of spelling out "God".

Jews do not say the sacred name of God when they read Scripture, instead they pronounce in the Hebrew ADONAI (LORD). In a King James Version of the Bible, this tradition is continued: Whenever you see an upper case LORD, it is in fact a substitute for the Tetragrammaton.

The early Masoretes (Jewish scribes following the Council of Yamnia in 90 CE) placed vowel pointers into the scrolls they produced. Modern Bibles use the Masoretic text for their "Old Testament" texts. Whenever the Masorete scribes wrote the Tetragrammaton, they inserted the vowel pointings for the word Adonai (Lord) to indicate that the reader should pronounce this word in place of trying to pronouce what was considered to holy to pronounce (i.e. the Tetragrammaton). Early English translators (King James Version, more correctly known as the "Authorized Version") read this in Masorete texts and then included the word "Jehovah" (or "Jahovah") in 4 places of their English version where a simple substitution of the word LORD would not make grammatical sense. In so doing, they were not completely ignorant, but were in fact recognizing the insufficient knowledge of the word "Yod-Hay-Vav-Hay" to accurately render it to the English. This is born out in the fact that the OTHER 6,515 times the Tetragrammaton is found in the Masorete text of the "Old Testament" they did NOT substitute the manufactured word "Jehovah". It is unfortunate that they took it upon themselves to render the word "Jehovah" in the 4 places that they did, because the result was several hundred years of "Christians" believing that God's name is pronounced "Jehovah". Modern "Christians", upon learning of the error of the word "Jehovah" seem content to substitute the word "Yahweh", which is just another attempt to fill in where the Hebrew does not. There is no Hebrew word or name, "Yahweh". The 6,519 times the Biblia Hebraica (a Masorete version of Hebrew text) renders the Tetragrammaton, it is spelled yod-hay-vav-hay and has the vowel pointings of a sheva (very short "eh" sound) under the yod and a patach ("ah" sound) under the vav.

The more conservative religious Jews use the word "Adonai" in place of God's name, or use the word "Hashem" (i.e. "The Name"). This modern "Christian" nation utters the phrase "My God" with such casualness and frequency that concept of "taking in vain" has taken on monstrous proportions. The irony is that the posted article is in fact completely in line with the Jewish practice of treating the Name of God with reverence... and the title of the post treats such reverence with typical American flipancy.