why don't people accept Jehovah as gods personal name?

Question

when i first learned gods name i tried to tell everyone about him and his son jesus.even when you show them in the bible like psalms 83:18 or exodus 6:3 they still wont use it.i know my dad would be mad if i didnt use his name and honor it.

john 17:6 jesus said i have made your name manifest to them

Answer 1

I know what your going through, when i learn his name and looked it up in the bible i started using it, but a lot of my family members don't they just call him god. or lord and some of them actually thing that jesus its god which its really wrong, but we should used his name like we do with our friends and other people if we don't its like if i had a friend and i would call her hey you i mean she will feel bad because she knows that i know her name right so thats how god feels as well , we should use his name to get closer to him as well, i'm glad to hear what your doing and we all know that you are making our god jehova happy by talking about him to your family and showing the texts from the bible, your doing what he wants us to do,

Answer 2

USING GOD NAME IN OUR TIME IN HISTORY

KJV Bible 1611 published plus 303 years at 1914 after Christ is an excepted translation by law of man and God, the name of God in English is Jehovah.
Gen.22:14; Exo.6:3; 17:15; Judges 6:24; Psm.68:4; 83:18; Isa.12:2; 26:4 [ Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

Through WW1 of 1260 days, 42 months or three and on half years.
WW2 with the holocaust for seven years and all the world conflict.

Dan.12:1-13; Matt.24:3,7,14,15,22,34,36-38; Rev.9:1-5 [ 5x 30 = 150 ]; Pit open for Satan, sealed of God are there.
Rev.9:12-16; Angels prepare 391 at Euphrates to continue to Rev.16:12-16; Euphrates troubled.
KJV Bible 1611 published plus 395 is 2006 with Euphrates in focus a few years.
Dan.12:1-10 [ 2520 ], 12 [ 2x 1335 = 2670 less 2520 is 150 same as Rev.9:1-5 ];

Answer 3

In the Hebrew language, God’s name is written הוהי. These four letters, which are read from right to left, are commonly called the Tetragrammaton. Many names of people and places mentioned in the Bible contain an abbreviated form of the divine name.Consider a few examples of proper names found in the Bible that include a shortened form of God’s name. Jonathan, which appears as Yoh·na·than′ or Yehoh·na·than′ in the Hebrew Bible, means “Yaho or Yahowah has given,” says Professor Buchanan. The prophet Elijah’s name is ’E·li·yah′ or ’E·li·ya′hu in Hebrew. According to Professor Buchanan, the name means: “My God is Yahoo or Yahoo-wah.” Similarly, the Hebrew name for Jehoshaphat is Yehoh-sha·phat′, meaning “Yaho has judged.” A two-syllable pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton as “Yahweh” would not allow for the o vowel sound to exist as part of God’s name. But in the dozens of Biblical names that incorporate the divine name, this middle vowel sound appears in both the original and the shortened forms, as in Jehonathan and Jonathan. Thus, Professor Buchanan says regarding the divine name: “In no case is the vowel oo or oh omitted. The word was sometimes abbreviated as ‘Ya,’ but never as ‘Ya-weh.’ . . . When the Tetragrammaton was pronounced in one syllable it was ‘Yah’ or ‘Yo.’ When it was pronounced in three syllables it would have been ‘Yahowah’ or ‘Yahoowah.’ If it was ever abbreviated to two syllables it would have been ‘Yaho.’”—Biblical Archaeology Review. These comments help us understand the statement made by 19th-century Hebrew scholar Gesenius in his Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: “Those who consider that הוהי [Ye-ho-wah] was the actual pronunciation [of God’s name] are not altogether without ground on which to defend their opinion. In this way can the abbreviated syllables והי [Ye-ho] and וי [Yo], with which many proper names begin, be more satisfactorily explained.” Nevertheless, in the introduction to his recent translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the Hebrew name [of God] have not succeeded; neither the sometimes-heard ‘Jehovah’ nor the standard scholarly ‘Yahweh’ can be conclusively proven.” No doubt the scholarly debate will continue. Jews stopped pronouncing the name of the true God before the Masoretes developed the system of vowel pointing. Thus, there is no definitive way to prove which vowels accompanied the consonants YHWH (הוהי). Yet, the very names of Biblical figures—the correct pronunciation of which was never lost—provide a tangible clue to the ancient pronunciation of God’s name. On this account, at least some scholars agree that the pronunciation “Jehovah” is not so “monstrous” after all.

Answer 4

That is only one of the names to refer to God with.

As he told Moses when Moses asked "I am that I am"

Name #1 - The first name that God told Moses about was Hayah.
Hayah is a Hebrew word meaning I AM.

Shortly before His crucifixion, Jesus referred to Himself as "I AM" (Hayah) one final time...

The event took place one evening in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Judas brought an armed troop to arrest Jesus on trumped-up charges.
The leaders of the troop asked Christ if He was Jesus of Nazareth.
Christ simply replied, "I AM!"

Name #2 - The second name that God told Moses about was YHWH.
YHWH is a Hebrew word for which we have only the four consonants. We do NOT have the vowels.

(Yeshua or Yehoshua) Christ's name means Yahweh is salvation.

Answer 5

Superstition and hatred against Jehovah's Witnesses.

The name "Jehovah" is an English translation of the Hebrew name pronounced as or similar to "Yahweh" or "Yehowah"; the exact original pronunciation is unknown. The four Hebrew characters corresponding to the letters "YHWH" are well-recognized as the biblical personal name of Almighty God, and are universally designated as "the Tetragrammaton" or "the Tetragram".

For centuries, most Jews have superstitiously refrained from pronouncing aloud any form of the divine Name. They base that superstition on the third of the Ten Commandments given to Moses:
(Exodus 20:7) You must not take up the name of Jehovah your God in a worthless way
http://watchtower.org/e/bible/ex/chapter_020.htm?bk=Ex;chp=20;vs=7;citation#bk7

Over the centuries, that Jewish superstition has expanded to also forbid writing or engraving any form of "YHWH", even when simply copying from one of the nearly 7000 occurences in the Hebrew Scriptures. In recent centuries, some superstitious Jews have even forbade unabbreviated EUPHEMISMS for "YHWH"; capitalized terms such as "Tetragrammaton" and (amazingly) even "the Name" are forbidden by such superstitions.

More recently, the Jewish superstition has ballooned out of all reasonableness by also forbidding respectful impersonal TERMS referring to the Almighty; thus many Jews insist upon writing "G-d" or "G~d" rather than "God". They may even refrain from capitalizing impersonal terms such as "Creator" and "Almighty".

Naturally, the religious and superstitious practices of a person are between him and his Creator. However, in recent decades these superstitious Jews have worked to impose their superstitious sensibilities beyond their religious communities, and onto the entire populace. Thus, although "YHWH' is unanimously recognized as the personal name of God, few today use any form of it in their writings and conversation.

Interestingly, Christendom has largely joined with superstitious Jews in suppressing the use of "Yahweh" and "Jehovah". However, it seems that Christiandom's anti-YHWH bias largely devolves from their hatred of Jehovah's Witnesses, the religion almost single-handedly responsible for the growing public recognition that the Almighty God of Judaism and Christianity actually does a personal name.

It seems that too many are more interested in coddling superstition than in allowing intellectual honesty and respect for the Almighty.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/na/
http://watchtower.org/e/20040122/


Interestingly, Encyclopaedia Judaica says that “the avoidance of pronouncing the name YHWH ... was caused by a misunderstanding of the Third Commandment.”
http://www.jehovantodistajat.fi/e/20040122/article_02.htm

(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth

(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them

Answer 6

Probably because it is NOT His personal name.
Man made up the name Jehovah, because the written Hebrew language name for God was "JHWH"; without vowels. And, similar to the way modern Jews leave out the "o" in G-d today, ancient Jews refused then, and now, to pronounce the vowel-less name of JHWH. So some human theologian came along and took the Jewish name for Lord (Edonai) and stole the vowels out. in order to put them into the vowel-less name JHWH, thereby to make a pronounceable name, JeHoWaH, or Jehovah, out of the combination.
Years later, (get your thumbs-downs ready, JW's) Jehovah's Witnesses came along and used this name for God as a clever way of getting gullible uninformed Christians to question and doubt the rest of what their church taught them, as a chink in the armor, to introduce other false doctrines into their hearts too.

Answer 7

It's because if you believe that God's name is Jehovah, then you should really be calling Jesus Yeshua. :-) It's the language. Also, people get hung up on the concept of the trinity. This deals with that somewhat too.

Answer 8

18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—
that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, [a] but by my name the LORD [b] I did not make myself known to them. [c]

so there are your 2 verses, where does it say His name is Jehovah?

Why do Jw's not accept that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh?

Answer 9

Oh, that's easy. Not everyone believes the same thing you do.

The same way how you amy question why people do not accept your belief in religion, everyone else is question how did you become so detached from reality? Has your own thoughts driven you to act like are better than everyone else?

Many people live on this earth, not just Christians. This isn't hate speech; it's common sense.

Answer 10

Becaue Yaweh came before Jehovah.