The name YHWH or Jehovah belongs in the New Testament

[Ross]

The Jehovah's Witnesses have their own translation of the Bible, The New World translation, which has been used in their proselytising and study almost exclusively since it was produced in the 1950's.
The Christian Greek Scriptures (NT) were translated first in secrecy by a translation committee appointed by their then President Nathan Homer Knorr and Vice President and chief theologian Frederick William Franz, without the knowledge of their Governing Body around 1950. The NT completed work was presented one morning to the remainder of the organizational staff at Bethel Headquarters in New York.
The name 'Jehovah' was inserted into the Christian Greek Scriptures by the committee 237 times, even though there is not a single extant Greek manuscript in existence containing 'Jehovah' or the Hebrew YHWH. Is there good and just reason to put it there, or is this a case of inserting spurious text?

[Eloi]

Do you know these expressions from the Old Testament?

"the angel of Jehovah",
"Jehovah your God" (or "Jehovah God" or "Jehovah our God"),
"in the name of Jehovah",
"the law of Jehovah",
"the glory of Jehovah",
"the word of Jehovah" (or "the saying of Jehovah"),
"the fear of Jehovah",
"the hand of Jehovah",
"Jehovah of armies",
"the spirit of Jehovah",
"says Jehovah,"
"Jehovah (God) the Almighty",
"the day of Jehovah".

All of them appear in the New Testament. Did your religious teachers or theologians of your preference never teach this to you?

[Ross]

[Ross]

Do you know these expressions from the Old Testament?

"the angel of Jehovah",
"Jehovah your God" (or "Jehovah God" or "Jehovah our God"),
"in the name of Jehovah",
"the law of Jehovah",
"the glory of Jehovah",
"the word of Jehovah" (or "the saying of Jehovah"),
"the fear of Jehovah",
"the hand of Jehovah",
"Jehovah of armies",
"the spirit of Jehovah",
"says Jehovah,"
"Jehovah (God) the Almighty",
"the day of Jehovah".

All of them appear in the New Testament. Did your religious teachers or theologians of your preference never teach this to you?

I prefer the Masoretic Text to your NWT which would render the expressions as:

the angel of YHWH",
"YHWH your God",
"in the name of YHWH",
"the law of YHWH",
"the glory of YHWH",
"the word of YHWH",
"the fear of YHWH",
"the hand of YHWH",
"YHWH of armies",
"the spirit of YHWH",
"says YHWH,"
"YHWH the Almighty",
"the day of YHWH".

Of course I am aware of them, or most of them.

I don't have any religious teachers, theologians or preferences of faith. I came to my conclusions on the Bible after around 12 years of study, and many more years of contemplation. If you haven't guessed by now, I was also once a Jehovah's Witness.

[Ross]

Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani

[MissKate13]

[Replying to Ross in post #54]

Ross, you did a magnificent job defending the word of God in this thread. Thank you!

[2timothy316]

On January 21, 2018, Bible Scholar Nehemia Gordon and his team of researchers discovered the 1,000th Hebrew Bible manuscript containing the original name of God in Hebrew with vowels.

https://religionnews.com/2018/01/25/the ... nuscripts/