Jehovah's Witnesses: can i call God "Theos"? that is His name in the Greek.?

Question

no. Paul was not a god. the people merely called him a god because he shook off the beast. that doesn't make him god.

sorry Moises. yes i see your point there. thanks. keep the answers coming people.

Answer 1

Yes.

Of course, both "Theos" and "God" are mere titles, whereas the bible plainly teaches that Almighty God wishes His personal name to be used. In fact, no other personal name appears more times in the bible than Jehovah's (nearly seven thousand)!

The organization perhaps most closely identified with the Divine Name is the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, and they have literature published in hundreds of languages (their website alone has articles in over 300). This extensive translating work has moved Jehovah's Witnesses to detail several dozen different respectful spellings and pronunciations of the Divine Name, all of which are honestly derived into various lingual tendencies from the original Hebrew יהוה ("YHWH").
http://watchtower.org/languages.htm

Ten interesting variations of the Divine Name are shown on this webpage, in large print along the right side of the page:
http://watchtower.org/e/20040122/article_01.htm


In English, both "Yahweh" and "Jehovah" have a long tradition of representing the Divine Name ("YHWH", also known as "the Tetragrammaton"). At first glance, it might seem that Yahweh (which undeniably includes Y, H, W, and H) would more accurately pronounce the Tetragrammaton as it was pronounced by the ancient Hebrews. However, there is an enormous "but"...

Other common Hebrew names actually include the divine name WITHIN them, giving hints as to its original pronunciation. Increasingly, scholars are leaning toward a pronunciation similar to the three-syllable "Yehowah" rather than two-syllable "Yahweh". If "Yehowah" is close to the correct pronunciation, then it becomes a much more subjective answer about whether "Yehowah" is more similar to "Jehovah" or "Yahweh". Many or most English speakers are likely to embrace the pronunciation which their predecessors embraced at least four hundred years ago.

"Jehovah".

Thus, in English, the three most common Biblical names for God (in order of usage) are Jehovah, Yahweh, and Yehowah. And to repeat, "God", "Lord", "Creator", and similar terms are NOT personal names but impersonal titles.

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

Answer 2

In the original Greek used by Paul, the word for “God” is The·os′, a term that applied to any of the numerous gods worshiped by the ancient Greeks and other peoples. However, neither the apostle Paul nor other writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures nor the Jewish translators of the Septuagint, the first version of the Hebrew Scriptures in Greek, had any objection to using this term with reference to the true God.

Its use in place of the divine name. During the second or third century of the Common Era, the scribes substituted the words Ky′ri·os (Lord) and The·os′ (God) for the divine name, Jehovah, in copies of the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Other translations, such as the Latin Vulgate, the Douay Version (based on the Vulgate), and the King James Version, as well as numerous modern translations (NE, AT, RS, NIV, TEV, NAB), followed a similar practice. The divine name was replaced by the terms “God” and “Lord,” generally in all-capital letters in English to indicate the substitution for the Tetragrammaton, or divine name.

Answer 3

You can refer to God as theos, but that is not a name, it is a title.
Notice that the title theos was also used to refer to Satan.
2 Corinthians 4:4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination..

Please look at the Blue letter Bible links..

Answer 4

you can call god what you want.. every translation is different.. i have never heard of that before but i'm pretty sure that is a translation of a title.. its more like..

king, father, mother, kid, boy, girl, queen,

other than...
herod, Jehovah, Diane, Logan, Paul, Mark, Lauren

understand?

we call god by his personal name because we are told from the bible to try to have an close intimate relationship with him...

how can you have an intimate relationship with someone if you dont even know there name???

email me if you have more questions~

Answer 5

Theos is not a proper name it is a noun ( a title ) as Engineer , apply to a person....

Paul was a Theos according to Acts 28:6 in the greek text.

http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/act28.pdf at the end.

Sorry Wooden:

all the sons of God are gods according to Psalms 82:6.

all angels are sons of God according to Job 1:6 so angels are gods.

Sorry again Wooden.

Exodus 4:16 "And he must speak for you to the people; and it must occur that he will serve as a mouth to you, and you will serve as God to him."

Moses was god according to God .

Answer 6

Sure, if you are Greek and speaking Greek.

Or you could call Him "Elohim" if you want to be Hebrew or Jewish about it. Or "Adonai" or "HaShem."

But if your native language is English, "God" will suffice.

However, as others have ably pointed out, "God" (in whatever language) is not His Name.

In standard English, the Name is "Jehovah." God revealed that Name in the Holy Bible more than 6,000 times. It is the Name by which He refers to Himself, and the Name by which His servants referred to Him.

When the Lord Jesus Christ taught his followers to pray, "Our Father in heaven, hallowed [or, sanctified] be Thy Name," that was the Name Jesus was talking about. Not "God," but "Jehovah."

Answer 7

God said he would take out of the nations a people for his name.
His name is not merely God. His name is Jehovah God.
So instead of saying your neighbor is Mr. you would say he is Mr Smith to differentiate him from all the other Mr.s.
Jesus is a mighty god but only Jehovah is the Almighty GOD.

To show respect we would want to use his proper name.
I would be offended if someone kept calling me lady after I asked them to use my name Debbie.
In America we don't as a rule speak Greek...the Americans say Jehovah.

Answer 8

If a Christian wished to use the generic term for God.

Answer 9

Actually, there was no Greek translation for the Tetragrammation therfore it was used since there was no greek replacement for it.

The Greeks pronouced it PiPI. That's what it looked liked to them.

The tetragrammation is found in the Greek Septuagant. One of the scrolls Jesus read.

Sometime during the second or third century C.E. the scribes removed the Tetragrammaton from both the Septuagint and the Christian Greek Scriptures and replaced it with Ky´ri·os, “Lord” or The·os´, “God.”

Answer 10

The usual Greek equivalent of ’El' and ’Elohim′ in the Septuagint translation and the word for “God” or “god” in the Christian Greek Scriptures is 'theos′.

You could say 'Theos', but wouldn't it be easier and more logical to say 'God'?


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