Joe.
Jehovah's his last name.
What do you call Jehovah now that you are not a dub?
by SiouxWoman 50 Replies latest watchtower medical
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DJ
LOL @ Random
I use Father more often than anything else. It feels right to refer to him with this intimacy. I do recall in Romans where it says that our spirit bears witness and call out Abba, Father.
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SpunkyChick
I don't pray to a god anymore.
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drwtsn32
I call him my 29th favorite fictional invisible character.
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AlanF
"Ain't what he used to be"
AlanF
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Buster
"Figment"
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Enishi
I tend to use the term FatherMother when I pray now moreso than Jehovah. I don't concentrate so much on the words of the prayer any more either, as much as I do the feelings and message they convey. I still pray in the name of Jesus though, since the name usually engenders a feeling of love in my heart.
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JamesThomas
The god "Jehovah" has a evolution and history. One can do some research and be fairly certain that it was a man made tribal deity, in no way a direct reference to the Infinite Source of the universe. Yet, I sometimes still use the name in reference to God, if it is appropriate with the person I am speaking. Usually, if I am alone and referring to our Source, I use the term Beloved; because it is meaningfully felt and intimate. j
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Phantom Stranger
I Am.
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gumby
Most people think Jehovah was a god who first revealed himself to Moses....as far as WHO HE WAS, AND HIS NAME.
Actually as James Thomas pointed out, the name goes back much further to those BEFORE them. The God jehovah....which came from"EL, and baal" from the writings from the Ugarits, tell of such. Below is a little info. but not alot. If you look up info. on the 'Ugarits' it explains in more detail. So the point is....the hebrews borrowed this name and god from those BEFORE them, and that god was a LESSER god to the ugarits, and not the Supreame God.
The Ugaritic Myth of Ba'al
copyright Lilinah biti-Anat, 1995-1997
In the late 1920's a Syrian farmer plowing a field on a hill turned up a strange clay tablet. A French archaeological team went to investigate. In 1928, that hill, behind Ras Shamra, a sleepy north Syrian port town, was discovered to be a tel, a mound which was actually the site of an ancient city. Within it were the ruins of Ugarit, a major Bronze Age Canaanite city, including a large palace and two temples. Many clay tablets were found during the couse of the dig, including a number within the Chief Priest's quarters.
The tablets were in cuneiform, but examination quickly revealed that although the shapes of the characters were familiar, they were unrelated to the familiar cuneiforms of Sumer and Akkad. Rather than the usual thousands, there were only 28 characters. Here was evidence of the first alphabet! A relationship between this character set and Hebrew allowed the French team, led by Charles Virolleaud, to make early tentative translations between 1930-1933.
This discovery has had a major effect on the study of the Ancient Near East. Refinements have been in the translations during the succeeding 65 years, and current scholars involve linguistic knowledge of Arabic to augment their work. The information in the various tablets has spread beyond the field of archaeology, changing, among others, the face of history, religion, and mythology. Whereas previously knowledge of the Pagan religions of the region was limited to a few untrustworthy references in Greek and Roman writing, and moreso, the highly biased accounts in the Torah/ Bible and the negative writings of early religious writers of Judaism and Christianity. As Ancient Near Eastern scholar Cyrus Gordon says "...Ugaritic is the greatest literary discover from antiquity since the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform..." (The Ancient Near East, p. 99)
The important deities El, Athirat/ Asherah, Ba'al, and Anat emerge, assisted by other deities such as the sun goddess Shapash, the magician-craftsman Kothar-wa-Khasis, who were hitherto poorly known or unknown. Prior knowledge has been expanded and the influence of Canaanite religion and mythology on surrounding cultures, including the Egyptians, Hittites, and Greeks, and in Judaism, is much more apparent, as is the influence of these other cultures and those of Mesopotamia on the Canaanites. More information is available on El, Ba'al, Athirat/ Asherah, Anat and on Yahm, Shapash, Kothar-wa-Khasis, and Athtart/ Astarte.
I present here the most important of the mythological stories uncovered, the Myth of Ba'al. Seven tablets, written on both sides, five columns per side, contain the story. Unfortunately several were badly damaged during their almost 3200 years in the ground, so parts of the story are unclear. The language, however, is quite vivid, and in some cases very beautiful. Scholars now see that the writing style of the Torah is a continuity of that of the Canaanites, and certain expressions and descriptions are virtually identical, while some Canaanite Pagan vignettes have been rewritten in the Bible to support the newer religion. The language describing the deity YHWH shows that many of his characterestics are a combination of the Canaanite El and Ba'al.
Gumby