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Why not for a change ask him, a question or two. Ask him where he got the word Jehovah from? He will surely reply - "From the Holy Bible." What does it say? Does it spell out the word J-e-h-o-v-a-h? "No," he will reply. "There is a 'tetragrammaton' in the Bible from which the word Jehovah is derived." What is a tetragrammaton? No one seems to have heard this highly mystical term. In the University of Illinois in the U.S.A. I asked a gathering of students and lecturers whether any one had heard this jaw-breaker! Not one of them knew its meaning! But every Jehovah's Witness seems to know, even the commonest of them. They have really specialised - ours is a world of specialisation. They are Professors of the one word - Jehovah.
What then is a "tetragrammaton!" The Jehovah's Witness replies, "Y H W Hi!"
"No!" "What I want to know from you is, what does the word tetragrammaton mean?" You will find him most reluctant in explaining. Either he does not really know, or he is feeling embarrassed in replying. "Tetra," in Greek means FOUR, and "grammaton," means LETTERS. It simply means "a four letter word."
Can you read into Y H W H the word Jehovah? I cannot. "No!", says the Jehovah's Witness, "we ought to add vowels to these four consonents to produce the sound. Originally, both Hebrew and Arabic were written without the vowel signs The native of each language was able to read if even without those vowels. Not so the outsider, for whose benefit the vowels were invented.
CHAPTER THREE - WHO IS JEHOVAH? (What is His Name - by Ahmed Deedat)[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]COMMON ORIGIN[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]What is YHWH; and what is ELOHIM? Since the lews did not articulate the word YHWH for centuries, and since even the Chief Rabbis would not allow the ineffable to be heard, they have forfeited the right to claim dogmatically how the word is to be sounded. We have to seek the aid of the Arab to revive Hebrew, a language which had once died out. In every linguistic difficulty recourse has to be made to Arabic, a sister language, which has remained alive and viable. Racially and linguistically, the Arabs and the Jews have a common origin, going back to Father Abraham.[FONT=Garamond, times new roman]1 [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Note the startling resemblance between the languages, very often the same sounding words carry identical meaning in both.[/FONT]
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By the way, did your middle eastern god speak English?
The Messenger fulfilled his message and died.. Jesus has risen because in Islam God doesn't forsake least of which the most righteous of his creation, but it is the lot of man to die, and as such Jesus will return to fulfill his prophecies and die as all men do .. when Jesus comes to earth he shall bear witness against YOU who have turned him into a god, he'll break the cross and will rule by Islamic jurisprudence!
all the best
They haven't concerning your religion is more akin to Paganism than anything monotheistic and completely at odds with the faith of Abraham!
A God that changes his mind is an ineffectual god, a lesser god!
I do see the matter of facts in your religion to be utter gibberish.. don't you want to justify why god would have a woman lover and a mother at the same time?
THE "TETRAGRAMMATON"
Why not for a change ask him, a question or two. Ask him where he got the word Jehovah from? He will surely reply - "From the Holy Bible." What does it say? Does it spell out the word J-e-h-o-v-a-h? "No," he will reply. "There is a 'tetragrammaton' in the Bible from which the word Jehovah is derived." What is a tetragrammaton? No one seems to have heard this highly mystical term. In the University of Illinois in the U.S.A. I asked a gathering of students and lecturers whether any one had heard this jaw-breaker! Not one of them knew its meaning! But every Jehovah's Witness seems to know, even the commonest of them. They have really specialised - ours is a world of specialisation. They are Professors of the one word - Jehovah.
What then is a "tetragrammaton!" The Jehovah's Witness replies, "Y H W Hi!"
"No!" "What I want to know from you is, what does the word tetragrammaton mean?" You will find him most reluctant in explaining. Either he does not really know, or he is feeling embarrassed in replying. "Tetra," in Greek means FOUR, and "grammaton," means LETTERS. It simply means "a four letter word."
Can you read into Y H W H the word Jehovah? I cannot. "No!", says the Jehovah's Witness, "we ought to add vowels to these four consonents to produce the sound. Originally, both Hebrew and Arabic were written without the vowel signs The native of each language was able to read if even without those vowels. Not so the outsider, for whose benefit the vowels were invented.
CHAPTER THREE - WHO IS JEHOVAH? (What is His Name - by Ahmed Deedat)[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]COMMON ORIGIN[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]What is YHWH; and what is ELOHIM? Since the lews did not articulate the word YHWH for centuries, and since even the Chief Rabbis would not allow the ineffable to be heard, they have forfeited the right to claim dogmatically how the word is to be sounded. We have to seek the aid of the Arab to revive Hebrew, a language which had once died out. In every linguistic difficulty recourse has to be made to Arabic, a sister language, which has remained alive and viable. Racially and linguistically, the Arabs and the Jews have a common origin, going back to Father Abraham.[FONT=Garamond, times new roman]1 [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Note the startling resemblance between the languages, very often the same sounding words carry identical meaning in both.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]HEBREW[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]ARABIC[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]ENGLISH[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Elah[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Ilah[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]god[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Ikhud[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Ahud[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]one[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Yaum [/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Yaum[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]day[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Shaloam[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Salaam[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]peace[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Yahuwa[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Ya Huwa[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]oh he[/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]YHWH or Yehova or Yahuwa all mean the very same thing. "Ya" is a vocative and an exclamatory particle in both Hebrew and Arabic, meaning Oh! And "Huwa" or "Hu" means He, again in both Hebrew and Arabic. Together they mean Oh He! So instead of YHWH ELOHIM, we now have Oh He! ELOHIM.[/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
By the way, did your middle eastern god speak English?
Actually you limit him by humanizing him, not the other way around!
How did he show he was god? do you think gods use the bathroom, dam n the earth for not bearing fruit, pray for help and die?
The Messenger fulfilled his message and died.. Jesus has risen because in Islam God doesn't forsake least of which the most righteous of his creation, but it is the lot of man to die, and as such Jesus will return to fulfill his prophecies and die as all men do .. when Jesus comes to earth he shall bear witness against YOU who have turned him into a god, he'll break the cross and will rule by Islamic jurisprudence!
all the best
