Why, all of a sudden, the Religion Forum is dwindling?

Well I got a question that is bugging me. You do you pronounce YHWY. It's actually bugging the shit outta me.
Yahwe, or Yehova, but if you pronounce it Yehova then people will think that you are a Yehova's witness, so if you are traditional christian then you could pronounce it Yahwe.

I have nothing against Yehova's witnesses, just to make it clear (well perhaps I don't like all of their translations of the Bible, but I can't say I have a example of something completely wrong with it).
 
You could say Yuhaweh or Yihwoh. Of course since nobody knows what's correct, you could accidentally stumble onto the right one. I don't know what would happen to you. Pillar of salt?* Plague of locusts?* Bolt of lighting?* Exile in Egypt?* Eternity in the Bog of Eternal Stench?*

Yes, it's certainly obvious you don't know. Judging by your posts, it's safe to assume if you wanted to know, you'd know by now. Don't say you weren't informed. Consider it part and parcel of His Graceful disposition towards you.

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth...Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity...

...Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. ...

...it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered...

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.


So, now you know.

*http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=1528252#post1528252
 
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M*W: All of a sudden, the Religion Forum has dwindled to almost oblivion. What happened? Did all the children go back to school? I think so!

Maybe everyone got tired of repeating the same discussion from a slightly different angle in every thread?
 
Yes, it's certainly obvious you don't know. Judging by your posts, it's safe to assume if you wanted to know, you'd know by now. Don't say you weren't informed. Consider it part and parcel of His Graceful disposition towards you.

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth...Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity...

...Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. ...

...it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered...

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.


So, now you know.

*http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=1528252#post1528252

Did you know that every time you quote the bible and see "Lord", actually it should be YHWH?
 
Photizo:
"Calling [up]on the name" and "calling the name" are not the same thing semantically.
So you don't know either.
 
I assume you mean YHWH. That is a transliteration of the Hebrew name of their god. I can't post the Hebrew alphabet with this browser, but the letters are yod he waw he, and of course they run from right to left. (In Yiddish and modern Hebrew it's pronounced vav, not waw, and customarily transliterated as V except in this one word.)

Hebrew is normally written without vowels, which are diacritical marks under the letters, since vowels are not phonemic in the Semitic languages. So it's natural for this name not to be written with its vowels. It could be argued that no one really knows the correct pronunciation! This is the name that we transcribe into Latin as Jehovah, with J and V in classical Latin equating to Y and W sounds. So you would not be too far wrong to pronounce it as Jehovah, either the customary English pronunciation or scrupulous Latin phonetics, ye-ho-wa.

The Hebrews had a superstition about not pronouncing their god's name, at least not correctly. So it's not clear how it's supposed to be pronounced! The most common way I've seen it written out by people who aren't religious Jews is Yahweh. I don't know if that's some modern convention or if there's actual evidence of it once being pronounced that way by the ancient Israelites. In any case you'll be in good company if you say it that way too.

Or you can just insert your own vowels. That way you'll be following the religious custom of making something up in order to not pronounce the god's name correctly. You could say Yuhaweh or Yihwoh. Of course since nobody knows what's correct, you could accidentally stumble onto the right one. I don't know what would happen to you. Pillar of salt? Plague of locusts? Bolt of lighting? Exile in Egypt? Eternity in the Bog of Eternal Stench?

Ya I mean YHWH, thanks.

Yes I would love to stumble on the right one and have something nasty happen to me, or just knowing it period. Do you suppose the Samaritans might know it?
 
Yes, it's certainly obvious you don't know. Judging by your posts, it's safe to assume if you wanted to know, you'd know by now. Don't say you weren't informed. Consider it part and parcel of His Graceful disposition towards you.

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth...Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity...

...Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. ...

...it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered...

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.


So, now you know.

*http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=1528252#post1528252


Sandy is that you......
 
M*W: All of a sudden, the Religion Forum has dwindled to almost oblivion. What happened? Did all the children go back to school? I think so!

These forums have finally brought them Enlightenment?

- N
 
I spend most of my time on the secret moderator's forum. It's so crazy in there, anything goes, we don't have any rules.
 
YAHWEY

Is the pronounciation.
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M*W: According to Josephus, here is the phonetic pronounciation of YHWH:

Josephus states that the pronunciation of YHWH is phonetically spoken like 4 vowels:

EEE-AAH-OOH-AAA

(EEE+AAH=YAH) + (OOH+AAA=WEH)
 
Just curious, MW, but why do you like to argue about religion? I mean, is there something about others believing something that you don't like or understand? Or is it that you just like to say the same things over and over and over and .....?

Baron Max
 
Just curious, MW, but why do you like to argue about religion? I mean, is there something about others believing something that you don't like or understand? Or is it that you just like to say the same things over and over and over and .....?

Baron Max

We're just a bunch of dumb ass atheist hillbillies who can't see the forest for the trees, and need a god to think for us. The arguments are merely ways of filtering through the myriad of gods to find the best one.
 
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