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]

Have you ever read this dialogue where Jesus mentions the Jewish Shema?

Mark 12:28 One of the scribes who had come up and heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them in a fine way, asked him: “Which commandment is first of all?” 29 Jesus answered: “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, 30 and you must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with your whole strength.’ 31 The second is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 The scribe said to him: “Teacher, you spoke well, in line with truth, ‘He is One, and there is no other besides him’; 33 and to love him with one’s whole heart, with one’s whole understanding, and with one’s whole strength and to love one’s neighbor as oneself is worth far more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 At this Jesus, discerning that he had answered intelligently, said to him: “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” But no one had the courage to question him anymore.

This quotation is from your NWT. It is a corrupted text. It is a Bible containing 'Jehovah' in the NT, where it does not appear in any Bible manuscript on the planet.

Why do you keep repeating this argument, it is silly.

Surely your teachers have told you about the expression 'new light?' Well, the NT was the greatest new light of all, and you are still stuck in Hebrew times.

[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/