Christians, why do you refuse to use Gods name?

Question

psalms 83:18 says that the most high is Jehovah. the lords prayer opens with 'let your name be sanctified'.
so why do you still go about refering to Him as God, Father and Lord when you could be using His actual name Jehovah?

Answer 1

Yes - good point. Our name is important to us isn't it?
We wouldn't like to be called just 'woman' or 'man'. Also, how can you get to know someone well if you don't know and use their name?
Keep it up!

Thank you Wester for your point. Names change their sound in different areas of the earth - for instance: Peter is Pierre in French. Y's are changed to J's over here in the west - hence Jan is pronounced Yan.
The importance shouldn't be on how we pronounce the name but the fact that we should use the name. My God is a loving God who wouldn't hold it against me if I was slightly out with the pronounciation (what if I had a lisp?!)
Yahweh, Jehovah, Jah or YHWH - the most important thing is for your prayers to be heard by him they must be addressed to him

To sanctify means to "hold holy". How can we hold the name holy if we don't use it?

Answer 2

I don't refuse to use "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" in speaking about the Creator.

I just refuse to lie and say that God's name is Jehovah. I refuse to lie and say that God's name is Yahweh. I tell the truth - no one today knows his name other than the consonants - YHWH.

If his name is actually Yahweh - and it might be - then why do you refuse to recognize Yahweh by insisting "that the most high is Jehovah"? If his name is Yahweh, do you think he wants people ignoring that name ?

And the Lord's prayer doesn't open with "let your name be sanctified". It opens with the addressing of the creator as "Our Father in the Heavens". Note that Jesus said in the model prayer to address them to "Father", not "Jehovah".


Note to New System Lady:

Yes, our name is important to us, so we don't like it if people call us by the wrong name. We would likely correct them, wouldn't we? Do you think Bill Clinton would rather be called Bill CLIFTON or Mister President?

If calling him Father and God isn't good enough, why did Jesus do it?


NOTE TO TeeM

You said it's a shame that people don't know Jesus used God's name. I agree he used it on occasion. But where are the Scriptures where he actually used it? I notice you didn't quote any and we both know why ----- because there aren't any. At least in the Bibles that are translated accurately.

so in answer to your question as to why anyone would refer to him as God, Father, and Lord, this is why:

1. Jesus and the Bible writers referred to him that way

2. He has allowed the Name to become unknown, except for the consonants. If it were important to him that people call him by his name, he would certainly have preserved the true pronounciation.

3. To choose a name for him puts one at risk of offending him by emphasizing a name he didn't choose, and thereby demeaning the TRUE name.

4. As Christians, the New Testament emphasizes the Son whose "name is above every other name" and "the only name under heaven by which we may be saved". Perhaps that's why the Father has permitted - possibly even arranged - to have his own name TEMPORARILY in the background

Answer 3

Yes God name is Jehovah !!but there is no sin to call him Father God and Lord if they only talking about the true and only living GOD we should not try to be religious fanatics it can turn people away!!

Answer 4

Well, according to Exodus, God told Moses that the only name he would give was "I am that I am" or just "I am".
Thare are many names of God in the Abrahamic tradition, Adonai, El, Elohim, IHVH, etc. each tends to refer to a different aspect of God although they are probably all from different religions which eventually amalgamated into Judaism.

Answer 5

no people who visit conflict,terrorize or maraud for his or her god will ever ask for forgiveness, It curiously is that complicated. normally they do no longer even renowned us as having any ideals and mounds us in with Atheists because of the fact we are no longer Christian. i do no longer even ask or % to be responsive to, I basically go approximately my company, provide appropriate admire to people as I could and tell those people to strategies their very own company. anybody ultimately gets theirs each so often with, maximum circumstances with out my help.

Answer 6

Some christian sects do - see watchtower link. The other link may help to explain why it is not used much in other branches of christianity.

Answer 7

We don't know how it was pronounced, Jehovah is a guess. Jesus wouldn't have used the name, so why do you want to?
What's the point of squabbling about the name of a bronze-age fictional character anyway??

Answer 8

jehovah or yahway means God or lord.

Answer 9

Jehova only to Jehovas' Witnesses.

I prefer to say GOD.

Answer 10

I thought it was Brian.