- Jun 19, 2009
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I'm not a JW, there are many Michaeline sects all based on Scripture's HaSheva (i.e. redeemer), including Judaism.Yeah......its the Holy Scriptures that are wrong not your cult? And speaking of errors of transliteration..........can you spell JEHOVAH? An error of combining the German Language with English. There is no such word as Jehovah......its an error of transliteration from the original Hebrew text.
How did YAHWEH become Jehovah? The Jews were concerned that God's name would be taken in vain. By the year 300 B.C. it became tradition not to mention God by name, instead of using YAHWEH from the Hebrew text......they used the word LORD. This tradition was picked up in the "Septuagint" translation wherever the Greek word for YHWH was found.
By the 6th century A.D. the origianl Hebrew language was no longer commonly spoken and the Jews were afraid that people would soon forget how to pronounce the language (as the original Hebrew text contained only consonants in written format....no vowels)...........so vowel pointers were added. But when they came to the word YHWH, the vowels for LORD were used.
When the Hebrew was then attempted to be tranliterated into English.......the German System was used (as was the common practice during that time period). If you have spoken or learned German........you know and comprehend that J's sound like Y's and V's sound like W's.
The early translators did not know about the vowel shift......thus they picked up the wrong vowels from the Hebrew language. The King James translation did not constantly and consistenly use the errant word JEHOVAH for God, instead the majority of the time when God is referenced in the King James.........the Word LORD is used in All caps. The King James Bible uses the word JEHOVAH but 8 times all throughout the Bible. It was not common practice to use Jehovah until the later translations such as the American Standard Version.
Thus in reality: The word Jehovah did not become commonly used until the middle of the 1900s. The American Standard Version used the word Jehovah for Lord 5,818 times.......due to this error of Transliteration.
In other words.....YOUR ENTIRE CULT is based upon an error of copy due to historical ignorance. Only the JWs would take a mistranliterated word and make an entire false religion from the misue. When you can prove that the King James Version used JEHOVAH as the name for God in more than 8 places.....let us know.
Y's are Pronounced as H's hence Book Of Joshua is called Hosea.
Now transliterate the Canaanite name for Shalem.