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In Defense of Jehovah Analysis of Article: Facts and Myths about the Sacred Name Doctrine What is God's name? Is it Yahweh, or a variation of it, as many church people known as "sacred namers" believe? A magazine entitled YNCA Light (The acronym YNCA stands for Yahweh's New Covenant Assembly) has published a five-page article defending Yahweh as the name of God. The article Facts and Myths about the Sacred Name teaches that Yahweh is a sacred name and is the only name that should be used for the heavenly Father. The article attacks the name Jehovah and maintains that they know what is the correct transliteration of the Hebrew divine name (also known as the tetragrammaton). Despite the claims of sacred namers, Yahweh is not the correct pronunciation of the divine name. The correct pronunciation is clearly marked more than 6500 times in the Hebrew text. That pronunciation, as transliterated in the King James Version, is Jehovah. Mr. Franklin shows that there is no Scriptural or historical evidence to support the transliteration of the sacred name as Yahweh. He proves, using the vowel points that are found in the Masoretic texts (which were not "borrowed" from the Hebrew word for God Adonai), that Jehovah is in fact the correct transliteration of the divine or sacred name. |
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