Why, JIM, do you never hear YAHWEH, GOD’S name ever presented from the pulpits? Are pastors afraid to pronounce HIS name, or are they simply ignorant of the fact that YAHWEH is GOD’S name?
I admire most of what Dr. Hutchins says and enjoy very much his twice weekly videos and the links to numerous relavant articles, but in Jim’s insistence that we pronounce God’s holy Name, I must part ways with him. God is called LORD, Adonai, Abba, Father, El Shaddai, and a host of other monikers, primarily because His proper Name is SO holy. Does he hate us if we happen to call Him Yahweh? Of course not. But out of respect and awe as to Who He is, it behooves us mortals to keep our relationship to the King of the Universe in some kind of perspective. A poor example, I suppose, would be if I was introduced to Queen Elizabeth of England, and instead of saying something like, “I’m honored to meet you, your Majesty”, I decided to say, “Hi Liz. How are you doin’?” If we should show that much respect to a mortal monarch, how much more respect should we show to the Sovereign God?! Yeshua, Himself, is never recorded as calling God by His proper Name of Yahweh. In my humble opinion, neither should we.
Why, JIM, do you never hear YAHWEH, GOD’S name ever presented from the pulpits? Are pastors afraid to pronounce HIS name, or are they simply ignorant of the fact that YAHWEH is GOD’S name?
I admire most of what Dr. Hutchins says and enjoy very much his twice weekly videos and the links to numerous relavant articles, but in Jim’s insistence that we pronounce God’s holy Name, I must part ways with him. God is called LORD, Adonai, Abba, Father, El Shaddai, and a host of other monikers, primarily because His proper Name is SO holy. Does he hate us if we happen to call Him Yahweh? Of course not. But out of respect and awe as to Who He is, it behooves us mortals to keep our relationship to the King of the Universe in some kind of perspective. A poor example, I suppose, would be if I was introduced to Queen Elizabeth of England, and instead of saying something like, “I’m honored to meet you, your Majesty”, I decided to say, “Hi Liz. How are you doin’?” If we should show that much respect to a mortal monarch, how much more respect should we show to the Sovereign God?! Yeshua, Himself, is never recorded as calling God by His proper Name of Yahweh. In my humble opinion, neither should we.
I believe that GOD is pleased when we call HIM by HIS HOLY name “YAHWEH.