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grantcart

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2. Very well put.
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:45 PM
Dec 2013

Which makes for some fun when the Jehovah's Witnesses show up. (The use of 'Jehovah' in English is a result of the mistransliteration
of the word that was originally deduced where the "J" was pronounced as the English "Y".

So the first question to the Jehovah's Witnesses is "do you know that the word 'Jehovah' never appears in the Bible"? The trainer steps forward with a broad smile and says "well it can be either Jehovah or Yahweh if you prefer"?

Responding with "well it can't be either because the hard 'J' doesn't appear in the Biblical Hebrew and is a mistransliteration of the German by people who had no idea what they were reading, but in any case did you know that neither 'Jehovah' or 'Yahweh' appear in the Hebrew Bible.

While they are sorting that out I explain the use of The Tetragammaton I then ask "if you can't get the name right what else have you gotten wrong?

Usually they are gone by that time.

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