i was always wondering and not to be religious or tring to prove a point or anything like that i am just truthfully wondering why.
why if catholics do not believe in jehovah why is the scripture psalm 83:17 in their bible also say "that they throughout the earth shall be known that my name is jehovah" i showed this to my bf mom who is catholic in her own bible and she got mad at me and i am just simply wondering can you help?
2006-10-14 20:18:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it may also be 83:18 when i go to my boyfriends home tomarrow i will definetly make sure of the scripture she has a catholic bible there
2006-10-14 20:36:20 · update #1
Amazingly, the intense hatred some have for Jehovah's Witnesses motivates their rejection of the divine name.
The root cause may be ignorance, or some misunderstanding. A few may have had a bad personal experience with an individual who claimed to be a Jehovah's Witness, and prejudicially extended their animus to this entire Christian religion.
However, it seems that the majority of anti-Witness hatred is motivated by religious intolerance and bigotry. A few may even be motivated against their Christian worship by the unseen 'god of this system of things', Satan the Devil.
(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers
Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:
(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.
(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.
(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.
(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.
It seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/4/1/article_01.htm
2006-10-14 22:32:39 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm Catholic, and I don't have any idea what you are talking about. Where did you get the impression that Catholics do not "believe" in Jehovah? I don't even think I quite understand that statement. Believe in what way?
Jehovah means God. Jehovah is used all the time during Catholic mass.
2006-10-15 03:23:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anybody that follows a religon based on a nut who predicted the end of the world (and had to change the date a few times) and goes to "meeting" instead of church or mass is a moron that gave up a lot more than their birthday. Have fun in hell.
2006-10-15 03:23:07 · answer #3 · answered by ripperdear6766 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics believe in the same God that the Jews believed in. God had revealed Himself to the Jews under the Old Covenant as Jehovah. God has revealed Himself under the New Covenant as Trinity, and God the Son revealed that Jehovah desires we address Him as "Abba" - Father. So, we do. But we recognize that He is Jehovah, one and the same true God.
2006-10-15 03:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a good psalm. That calls on God to smite the living daylights out of people:
"Make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setterth the mountains on fire; so persecute them with they tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Fill their faces with shame; the they may seek they name, O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them by put to shame and perish."
Don't just go quoting names and leaving out all the smiting! That's the best part! Amen!
2006-10-15 03:26:53 · answer #5 · answered by Hate Boy! 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are a number of names used for god; jehovah is one of them. There is no particular point in choosing between them.
2006-10-15 03:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised catholic and I understood jehovah to be another name for god . . .
2006-10-15 03:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God told Moses what his name is, and it's never changed.
Exo 3:13 Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall say to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them?
Exo 3:14 God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.
The english transliteration of "I Am" ... God's holy name ... based on the original Hebrew is YHVH, typically spelled Yahweh.
Jehovah is another, cruder transliteration, which appears only in certain english Protestant versions of scripture.
2006-10-15 10:23:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think because catholics worship Mary instead, and the statues specially the bleeding ones
2006-10-15 03:22:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋