Black Spirituality Religion : Is the divine name "Yahweh" ordinarily the best way for Christians to speak of God?

In the Spirit of Sankofa and Truth!

i swore the fathers name was jehovah =/


We are talking paradigms MiKe.

 
seems to me that when you call the creator one name, and it comes from one peoples language...

we tend to think that one race or people to be superior over others...

my question is...








would the creator NOT love you just the same, and comfort if you cried out

to it through tears, there are times so tough that you cannot even speak due to being in such turmoil, despair, heartache...

so can you still be heard?

or is not knowing the specific name...

a technicality?:10500:
 
In the Spirit of Sankofa and Truth!

seems to me that when you call the creator one name, and it comes from one peoples language...

we tend to think that one race or people to be superior over others...

my question is...

would the creator NOT love you just the same, and comfort if you cried out

to it through tears, there are times so tough that you cannot even speak due to being in such turmoil, despair, heartache...

so can you still be heard?

or is not knowing the specific name...

a technicality?:10500:




Excellent points, Josef, excellent indeed, for real!

 
i swore the fathers name was jehovah =/

It depends upon how you point the Hebrew consonants. To be perfectly accurate, "j" was another form of "i" when "Jehovah" was proposed, so "Iehovah" would be more accurate. The "v" in Jehovah is based upon one possible pronunciation of the Hebrew ו --viz. pronouncing it as a consonant. From a phonetic point of view, the English "w", used in "Yahweh" is a diphthong, even if alphabetically it is a consonant. In Latin, you would have written the "w" sound as "ua". But phonetically, the best Latin transliteration of "Yahweh" would be "Iaue".

Since we do not know how Hebrew was pronounced at the time of Moses, we will probably never know the correct way of pronouncing The Name.
 
seems to me that when you call the creator one name, and it comes from one peoples language...

we tend to think that one race or people to be superior over others...

my question is...








would the creator NOT love you just the same, and comfort if you cried out

to it through tears, there are times so tough that you cannot even speak due to being in such turmoil, despair, heartache...

so can you still be heard?

or is not knowing the specific name...

a technicality?:10500:

If I worded what I said in such as way as to give the impression that I believed God would reject someone because of what they call him, then I worded it poorly. My question was more about what the best, most reverent way of referring to God is, not about God's openness to everyone who seeks him with a humble and contrite heart. God's openness to all stems from his infinite charity, which he exercised in bringing each and every one us into existence. He is love, after all!
 

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