"Matthew Johnson" wrote in message
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> Now who _does_ know what they are talking about? Why, Hebrew philologists,
> of
> course.

Of course. And some are Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, accepted by their
non-JW peers as authorities on the subject.

>And they all agree: the JW 'pronunciation' is a gross _mispronunciation_
> based on an even grosser misudnerstanding of the basics of reading the
> Hebrew
> Bible.

The "JW" pronunciation? You're kidding, right? The pronunciation "Jehovah"
is not unique to Jehovah's Witnesses, by any means! Hebrew philologists who
'know what they are talking about' do NOT call it "the JW pronunciation."

The man-made traditions about "reading the Hebrew Bible" are not what
determines what God inspired to be in His Word.

>You are ignoring the distinction between kethib and qere, and reading the
> kethib using the vowels of the qere!
>
> What a confused mess you make out of His holy name by doing this!

The 'confused mess' is those who replace the word altogether and make an
issue of pronunciation in the first place. I don't care if you pronounce it
"Yahweh" "Jehovah" "Hayhowa" "Jayhova" etc. as long as it is the translation
of YHWH instead of a *substitution*.

> And you are
> the one who keeps trying to rrebut that "God is not a God of confusion".

He isn't. That is why the 'mispronunciation' argument should be applied
consistently to all Hebrew names. Including YHSH.

>
>>Acts 15:14 shows that God is now taking out
>>of the nations 'a people for His Name.'
>>
>>Are all these nations going to pronounce His Name identically?
>
> Of course not. The _pious_ among them will not pronounce it, but read the
> qere
> instead of the kethib. The qere (which means 'to be read') for YHWH is
> 'Adonai',
> which is translated as LORD.

Do you really think that Jehovah inspired His Name to be in Scripture
thousands of times so that the "pious" wouldn't pronounce it? Since He
authored Scripture, His way is the correct way, not traditions of men.

The Jewish superstition of God's Name being somehow 'too holy' to be
pronounced is responsible for the 'qere' in the first place, not Scripture.
Therefore, according to *God's* definition of 'pious', it is the pious that
WILL be using and pronouncing His Name in whatever language they speak.
Substituting God's Name with anything other than what God inspired to be
there is the height of IMpiety.

Christians are not bound by unscriptural Jewish tradition, but by Scripture.
Only.

Psa 29:1 A Psalm of David. Give to Jehovah, sons of mighty ones; give to
Jehovah glory and strengt