Why the Watchtower is full of it.

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The Watchtower is a worldwide organization and claims to touch every nation with its organization and their Bible. We know they have taken it upon themselves to change LORD and God to Jehovah in about 7000 places in their latest edition of the New World Translation. So far, so good, but bad for millions of others in the many nations around the world for one very specific reason. Now, here's their pitch. God's name is YHWH, and not LORD or God, so we have taken it upon ourselves to replace LORD and God with Jehovah. They will tell you in one post, there are no vowels in Greek, so what do they do? They add vowels to YHWH and say, it's okay.

Here's the problem with their twisted logic concerning God's name, YHWH, a name even the Hebrews could not pronounce, so it was replaced by them with LORD or God.

Genesis 11:1, "The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. The LORD sees them building this tower up to the stars, so he said, "Behold, the people are one, and they have one language;" Verse 7, "Let us go down, and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So, the LORD scattered them --- upon the face of the earth." That's when the word "Babel" came into being.

Now with that said, let me tell you why YHWH, or YHVH, was not used by the Jews, and most likely the prophets were told by the LORD himself as they wrote down his words, do not my name YHWH for the following reasons, reasons God himself could only know because of his foreknowledge.

Quite a few languages around the world either lack one or more of the letters Y, H, V, or W, especially when we’re talking about their native alphabets or phonemic inventories, not just how they’re written using the Latin script.

Languages that commonly lack one or more of the following letters, Y-H-W.-V., or H. are as follows.

Many Romance languages (like Spanish, Italian, and French) rarely use "Y" natively. It appears mostly in loanwords.

Arabic and Hebrew have sounds that can be transliterated as "Y", but the actual Latin letter "Y" isn’t used in their native scripts.

Some Austroasiatic and Austronesian languages (like Hawaiian) have very limited consonant inventories and may lack an "H" sound.

Japanese has an "H" sound, but it’s quite different from the English "H", and the Latin "H" is not part of the native writing system.

Classical Latin didn’t distinguish between "V" and "U"—they were the same letter!

Polish and other Slavic languages often use "W" for the "V" sound and don’t use "V" natively. Also, Finnish and Estonian rarely use "V" in native words.

Romance languages generally don’t use "W" in native vocabulary.

Turkish, Hungarian, and Esperanto also don’t use "W" natively—it appears only in foreign names or loanwords.

Some languages don’t use any alphabet at all—they’re purely oral:

Pirahã (Amazon)

Sentinelese (Andaman Islands)

Ongota (Ethiopia). These languages don’t have letters like Y, H, V, or W because they don’t have a writing system at all.

So, there are many languages that either don’t use these letters or don’t have the corresponding sounds. It’s a great reminder that the Latin alphabet is just one lens through which we view language, and not a universal one. The LORD knew the problem, true Christians understood the problem, but the cults, without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, fall short in their endeavor to appear holier than thou.

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The Watchtower is a worldwide organization and claims to touch every nation with its organization and their Bible. We know they have taken it upon themselves to change LORD and God to Jehovah in about 7000 places in their latest edition of the New World Translation. So far, so good, but bad for millions of others in the many nations around the world for one very specific reason. Now, here's their pitch. God's name is YHWH, and not LORD or God, so we have taken it upon ourselves to replace LORD and God with Jehovah. They will tell you in one post, there are no vowels in Greek, so what do they do? They add vowels to YHWH and say, it's okay.

Here's the problem with their twisted logic concerning God's name, YHWH, a name even the Hebrews could not pronounce, so it was replaced by them with LORD or God.

Genesis 11:1, "The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. The LORD sees them building this tower up to the stars, so he said, "Behold, the people are one, and they have one language;" Verse 7, "Let us go down, and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So, the LORD scattered them --- upon the face of the earth." That's when the word "Babel" came into being.

Now with that said, let me tell you why YHWH, or YHVH, was not used by the Jews...

In Hebrew it is יהוה. And it is in the scriptures that are used for English translations. By what I see "YHWH" is better translation for it than "Lord", because there is a different word for the word "Lord".

Finnish and Estonian rarely use "V" in native words.

Finnish language has many words with the letter "V".

... It’s a great reminder that the Latin alphabet is just one lens through which we view language, and not a universal one. The LORD knew the problem, true Christians understood the problem, but the cults, without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, fall short in their endeavor to appear holier than thou.

I don't see a problem here, even if the letters would not be common in all languages. But, i can see a problem with the word "Lord". It can be used for many, not only for God, and that can be in some cases misleading.

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The Watchtower is a worldwide organization and claims to touch every nation with its organization and their Bible. We know they have taken it upon themselves to change LORD and God to Jehovah in about 7000 places in their latest edition of the New World Translation. So far, so good, but bad for millions of others in the many nations around the world for one very specific reason. Now, here's their pitch. God's name is YHWH, and not LORD or God, so we have taken it upon ourselves to replace LORD and God with Jehovah. They will tell you in one post, there are no vowels in Greek, so what do they do? They add vowels to YHWH and say, it's okay.

Here's the problem with their twisted logic concerning God's name, YHWH, a name even the Hebrews could not pronounce, so it was replaced by them with LORD or God.

Genesis 11:1, "The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. The LORD sees them building this tower up to the stars, so he said, "Behold, the people are one, and they have one language;" Verse 7, "Let us go down, and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So, the LORD scattered them --- upon the face of the earth." That's when the word "Babel" came into being.

Now with that said, let me tell you why YHWH, or YHVH, was not used by the Jews...

In Hebrew it is יהוה. And it is in the scriptures that are used for English translations. By what I see "YHWH" is better translation for it than "Lord", because there is a different word for the word "Lord".

Finnish and Estonian rarely use "V" in native words.

Finnish language has many words with the letter "V".

... It’s a great reminder that the Latin alphabet is just one lens through which we view language, and not a universal one. The LORD knew the problem, true Christians understood the problem, but the cults, without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, fall short in their endeavor to appear holier than thou.

I don't see a problem here, even if the letters would not be common in all languages. But, i can see a problem with the word "Lord". It can be used for many, not only for God, and that can be in some cases misleading.

Concerning your last sentence. That's why when speaking of our Creator, LORD is all upper case, this sets it apart from Lord when speaking of Jesus as a man, and when a mortal, a king or prince is called lord, all lower case. Also, the context of a verse plays a large role in understanding what and who the verse is pointing to.