I AM WHO I AM

Jehovah’s witnesses have continued to deny the origins of the term ‘Jehovah’. I taught this several years ago as a junior seminarian and to go back to that lecture will mean travelling to a village in Africa to get the research. However, it was pertinent to make it clear to you that that terminology was a catholic invention. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish Dominican first used that name for God in 1270, in an attempt to merge consonants from Adonai into the consonants of ‘Yahweh’.

Yahweh is the closest. This should be very clear to you by now. The Hebrew name of God is spelled YHWH. This is absolutely unpronounceable. Ancient Hebrew as you know has no vowels. This change 1000 years ago when vowels began to be engrafted. However, earliest records in Greek which has written vowels pronounced the name as Yahweh. Yahweh is much more accurate than Jehovah for a several reasons.

1.     The Hebrews gave us the name of God.

2.     There is no ‘J’ in the Hebrew pronouncement.

3.     Jehovah is an English translation that is not clear.

4.     Until now Hebrew do not name him as Jehovah.

5.     Yahweh is acceptable in Hebrew.

6.  Yahweh still retains the Hebrew consonants.

7.     Yet the proper name of God is ‘I AM’ YHWH.

7.  Jesus called himself 'I AM' (John 8:58).

8.  Yet no one is absolutely right on the pronunciation given the panoply of names.

9. Yet Yahweh is the closest.

10. Yashua , the Hebrew name of Jesus also is close to 'Yahweh.'