Jehovah's Witnesses: Does NWT contain any examples of CHRIST addressing his prayers to Jehovah?

Question

I know that the name "Jehovah" is inserted by translators in hundreds of verses...I do not know any places where Jesus used the name "Jehovah" in prayer. Help me out.

Insisting using the name Jehovah reveals me that Jehovah's Witnesses know God from the distance. You do not feel safe to call Him Father? Do you call your dad "dad" or by his first name?

Answer 1

Matthew 4:10 "Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service"

all the word that are in the bible can be read it in less than three hours, and he spent 42 month of preaching , how many things Jesus says that never ever was written in the bible,also the pray are private.... who knows...

by the way Jesus was Son of God , but humans are called son of men, you are son or daugther of Men, you are not son of God, Jesus can call God very proplerly father but we are not direct sons of God.

Wondering Faith . You really need to be humble, Jesus was quoting Deuteronomy 5:9 that says Jehovah. I have read 5 times the bible not only NWT but NIV and spanish versions like Reina Valera in fact you can imagine how much do I enjoy to find people like you preaching door to door and whe I left my bible and use the one they have in their house and show them exaclty the same I was talking they just have to shut their mouth.

Answer 2

While that is what the KJV also teaches, no they did not use any preconceived notions except that the Bible is the Word of God. A fine example of this is found at Exodus 28:19. What is today's meaning for the rock written about here? The truth is that no one knows. So many translations just made up a stone to put in there. Not so with the NWT. They used the real Hebrew word "lash'em" stone for the name. This provided them accuracy while not making something up based on speculation. As for using Jehovah, enemies of the true God have for centuries tried their best to destroy the Bible or failing that, remove the divine name entirely.

Answer 3

The fact is we have a close enough relationship with Jehovah that we can feel comfortable calling him by name. Yes, he is our heavenly Father, but that is his title, not his name. He is our God Jehovah.

Most people today can't even stand to hear the name Jehovah, it makes them uncomfortable. Or they bicker over the pronunciation, afraid they will pronounce it wrong.

In the Lord's prayer Jesus said to "make your name known" that name was not Father or Lord, those are titles and there are many of those. His name is Jehovah, as Psalms 83:18 says "That people may know that you whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the most high over all the earth."

Answer 4

For one thing, Jesus had a unique relationship with Jehovah. God was his Father in a very special way. And because Jesus was the first of many soon-to-be born again sons of God, it was appropriate for Jesus to have stressed Jehovah's fatherhood to them.

But, even at that, it is likely that Jesus did use the name Jehovah. Jesus said that he 'came in the NAME of his Father.' Also, when Christ read Isaiah 61:1 in the synagogue, he would have read the divine name represented by the Tetragrammaton.

The problem, though, is that no original manuscripts of the Gospel exist today, and because the Bible has been subjected to copyists who, like many scholars and clergymen today, do not value God's personal name, it is quite likely that the Divine name was once there but that it was purged from the Greek Scriptures. You may find more helpful information here on the Watchtower's website.

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Answer 5

I am just practically repeating some of the answers here provided by JWs. One of Jesus' main concern was to make his Father's name known and have it sanctified. Therefore, it is only common sense that Jesus used the name of his Father, "Jehovah" in prayer and in teaching.

You asked, "you do not feel safe to call him Father?"

Every Jehovah's Witnesses call Jehovah, (heavenly) Father. yet, because we want to sanctify the name of our Father, we use his personal name more often than not. However, in our prayers either in our private homes and in our meetings at the Kingdom Halls, we call Jehovah "OUR FATHER."

Answer 6

Jehovah's Witnesses do call Jehovah 'Father'. If you were to attend a Kingom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, you would hear this all the time in public prayers.

John 17:1 "Jesus spoke these things, and, raising his eyes to heaven, he said: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you."

Jesus told us to pray for his Father’s name to be hallowed or sanctified, and every informed Bible scholar knows that the name of God the Father is Jehovah. (Matthew 6:9)

The very name Jesus combines in itself the divine name; and there is no proof that Jesus himself followed the unscriptural Jewish practice of that day and refused to mention his own heavenly Father’s name. If the Jewish high priest at the temple could lawfully say the divine name Jehovah, then certainly Jesus Christ, who is God’s greater High Priest, could also lawfully say that holy name publicly.

Jesus himself clearly indicated that he used the divine name. For instance, he said in prayer to his Father: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world. . . . I have made your name known to them and will make it known.” (John 17:6, 26) Why would he say this if it wasn't true?

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Wondering Faith - If you actually read that Watchtower article, it says that "Johannes Greber in the introduction of HIS translation of The New Testament", he did not translate the "New World Translation". The article is entitled "Triumphing over Wicked Spirit Forces".

Paragrpah 12 even says: "when the apostle John says, “Try the spirits,” or, “Test the spirits,” he does not mean for us to dabble in spiritualism and get in touch with the spirits by means of spirit mediums, ouija boards or planchettes or other spiritistic paraphernalia and try out which is a good spirit and which is a bad one." Jehovah's Witnesses have never endorsed spritism.

Answer 7

The Christian Greek Scriptures (New Testament) do not include all the prayers of Jesus to his heavenly father. Does that mean Jesus never used his father's name in prayer? I hardly think a case can be made for such a contention. Given the affection and respect that Jesus showed for his father's name, it seems unlikely that he failed or refused to use it in prayer.

You said that if Jehovah's Witnesses insist upon using the name Jehovah, that reveals to you that the Witnesses know God only from a distance. If I were to follow your line of reasoning, I would have to conclude that you – and other professed Christians - only know your dear Lord from a distance. For you regularly call him Jesus, do you not?

No, when my father was alive, I did not call him by his given name. However, if you mean to imply some sort of parallel between calling my father Josh and calling my God Jehovah, I believe you are overlooking some key elements, not the least of which is my earthly father did not instruct me to call him by his name. The God of the heavens, however, has made it clear that his name is of the utmost importance to him and He means for it be known and used – even by His enemies. Thus he told Pharaoh: I could have effaced you off the planet by now. Yet I have kept you in existence for the purpose of . . . having my named declared in all the earth. Exodus 9:16

That name has been recorded in God's own book – as you have probably heard by now – close to 7,000 times in the Hebrew Scriptures alone. Just in the book of Ezekiel, the phrase "and they will have to know that I am Jehovah" occurs some 69 times.

So Jehovah's Witnesses feel as did the prophet Jeremiah when he prayed to the true God at Jeremiah 10:25: "Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You And on the families THAT DO NOT CALL YOUR NAME . . ." New American Standard

And we feel as did the psalmist at Psalm 83:16-18: "Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: That men may know that thou, WHOSE NAME ALONE IS JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." King James Version

Should not all professed Christians feel this way?

Hannah J Paul

Answer 8

1st Q: Yes, it does.
All of Jesus' prayers were addressed
to his God & heavenly Father Jehovah.
(or YHWH if u prefer)
He Surely, Did Not Pray to Any Other god.

2nd Q: Yes, we feel safe and/or comfortable
calling Him Father.

3rd Q: I don't have a 'dad'
never did through my entire life,
and I never will.
The man whom got my mother impregnated,
(I found him some 10 yrs, ago)
I now call Norm.

edit: b-t-w,
I do @ times call Jehovah "my only Father"
in my private prayers.
I don't have a dad here on earth,
& the only person that even comes close
to me calling him Father
is the best 1 Anybody could ever have.

Answer 9

It varies. Jesus never used his Father's name in his prayers. However, he does pray for the sanctification of it. It is more appropriate to address Jehovah as "Father", however it is important to realize that he has a name. That name has meaning. Addressing Jehovah by name means we realize what it stands for. His name "Jehovah" means "He causes to Become", meaning he causes himself to become whatever he needs to accomplish his purposes. Father is only one title that Jehovah is known by; he has many. However, we are not in Jesus position. He was perfect and Jehovah really was his Father. Mankind, however, have fallen from their perfect state and masked by sin. We can call him "Father", and he wants us to do so. However, we have inherited sin, so that distances us from him. We much approach all prayers in Jesus name to be accepted. Yes, however, we should address him as "Father". Just keep in mind that Jesus had a different relationship with Jehovah than we do.

Answer 10

I will answer your question even though I doubt you are looking for the truth. Part of your fan base is here to support you and to give you a pat on the back to encourage you to keep asking probing questions into the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses, hoping that we will not be able to answer your questions.

Jesus himself clearly indicated that he used the divine name. For instance, he said in prayer to his Father: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world. . . . I have made your name known to them and will make it known.” (John 17:6, 26) Moreover, Jesus taught his followers to pray: “Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.” (Matt. 6:9) Why would Jesus make those statements unless he had used God’s name?

A papyrus fragment found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, shed light on the use of God’s name? This fragment of Job 42:11, 12 from the Greek Septuagint contains the Tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters of God’s name). This is evidence that God’s name in Hebrew appeared in the Septuagint, often quoted by writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures.

But because of Jewish superstition, God's name was removed from later copies of the Septuagint. As a result, there are no copies of NT manuscripts that contain the divine name.

To say we know Jehovah from a distance is just another falsehood levied at JW's. We use God's name constantly in our worship. We have encountered many people who read the King James Bible but have no idea that God's name is even there. So how can you say we only know Jehovah from a distance?

Answer 11

Yes I call my Father, by his title dad, and not by his name,but I do know my fathers name, and I tell other people what my fathers name is and I do also call my God Jehovah Father as well, and I know, his name, and make it known to others, I do not hide God's name Jehovah, do you call your friends by their name or do you use their title friend? does calling your friend by name, distance your relationship with your friends, or bring you closer with them, by useing their name?Is God your Friend?If you do not use his name, are you then really being closer to God? Well I guess you don't use the names of people who are not your friends, then it stands to reason that if God is not your friend you will not use his name either! Oh Jesus did use Gods name often he showed the importance of God's name in his model prayer in his Sermon on the Mount in (Matthew6:9) Do you know what the very first thing he said in that prayer was?Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name! What name? How can a name be hallowed without being used? what does it mean for a name to be hallowed?It means to be held as holy, how do you hold God's name holy? How did Jesus do it?Jesus did this, as is already brought out in a preceding answer you received, by making Jehovah's name known. I can't see how you could possibly think that you can be close to your friends, by using their names, and close to God, by not using God's name.