The reason why the publishers of the Divine Name King James Bible restored the Divine Name seems to me a good answer to this question. I welcome to hear what might come of this question in this forum. I have been on this journey a large part of my 56 years and I dare say that now seeing the almost 7000 instances of JHWH being turned into "the LORD" has caused much thought. Luke 9:23 ESV And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. I can see the use of the title "the LORD" by one's self, that it becomes the moment that you completely deny one's self and lay down your life, to pick up your cross and - the implement of your death and follow Jesus. I can see that once someone spends so much time communing with God and His word that one might bestow in a form of reverence the title of THE LORD and especially MY LORD, but I don't think that if you are on the outside looking in and haven't been on the journey of getting to know Him how the words' "the LORD" are very helpful. And so my search of the importance of YHWH in the word goes on. (Adding the faith of Abraham and his story into the mix). I get the sense that knowing who the Father- YHWH is of much more importance than checking off a box that says I believe, as so many of the sinners' prayer profess.Īs I see it, knowing, really knowing and putting one's complete faith into the creator- YHWH is of extreme importance on the journey. well we all know there were plenty of demons that knew who Jesus was, and I dare say who the Father was, but they, as far as I know won't be saved. I wonder if this is how many people see this- the LORD? As part of my journey, (by way of clarifying why I ask this question- which in my mind is so different from the ones found here at hermenutics.exchange and so many other places) I look at one of the most prolific verses from the Bible of John 3:16 and see that ".that whoever believes in him". In my up bringing and I dare say most, when the word Lord is used it doesn't give the person that is being spoken about a personality yet the God that we are speaking about is loaded with personality and when the article "the" is placed in front of the word LORD the personality of the one being spoken about is lost- at least in my sense of how I read it. And then to add, I have never seen anyone called Lord as a name. You could say that this Lord is the highest and best Lord and so are differentiating this Lord over others- obviously making perfect sense, but this doesn't go very far as to being the actual name of the person- just that he is a Lord, specifically "the" LORD. I have never seen anyone called the John, the Lisa, the Steve, unless, as I have seen spoken of, that you want to differentiate the person from another of the same name, and this one- the Steve, is the best, most important, most prolific one, here using the article "the" makes sense. And then to see that most translations of the OT use the Tetragrammaton of YHWH to say "the LORD". I've looked through much of the "similar questions" section, but my search goes deeper, I believe, it goes to the idea of one's name and what it represents.
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