It is definitely what I was taught. God's will = making his name pronunciation known. To them, that is " Jehovah"-- which even the watchtower has admitted to be incorrect. That is precisely WHY I asked the question about why JWs on these boards rarely USE the name.
Yep, that's about right. Just about every conversation I ever had with a JW at the door is "did you know God has a name?"
(Jehovah is missing thread) If it's God's will? HUH?
Instead, we see JW- Auntie Jane NOW using YHWH. JWS NEVER say, Yahweh. If as a JW you began to only say, Yahweh - you will be called in to explain why and told to use Jehovah or else!!!
w99 2/1 p. 30-31
Nevertheless, in the introduction to his recent translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the Hebrew name [of God] have not succeeded; neither the sometimes-heard ‘Jehovah’ nor the standard scholarly ‘Yahweh’ can be conclusively proven.”
No doubt the scholarly debate will continue. Jews stopped pronouncing the name of the true God before the Masoretes developed the system of vowel pointing. Thus, there is no definitive way to prove which vowels accompanied the consonants YHWH (יהוה). Yet, the very names of Biblical figures—the correct pronunciation of which was never lost—provide a tangible clue to the ancient pronunciation of God’s name. On this account, at least some scholars agree that the pronunciation “Jehovah” is not so “monstrous” after all.
Bible Questions Answered
Jehovah is a rendering of God’s name in English that has been used for centuries. While many scholars prefer the spelling “Yahweh,” Jehovah is the form of the name that is most widely recognized. The first part of the Bible was written not in English but in Hebrew, a language that is read from right to left. In that language, the divine name appears as four consonants, יהוה. Those four Hebrew characters—transliterated YHWH—are known as the Tetragrammaton.
It's simple Jw's on here do not want to tell you the name of their religion because they are here incognito in order to TRY to rob people of Jesus. Jw's teach-( He did not die for your sins, you can't be born again, you aren't part of body of Christ, Jesus is not your mediator, you are not in the New Covenant, etc........etc......
That will all change in due time.
