What reasons are given for removing Gods name from the Bible? Are any valid?

That all sounds good on the surface. The Pope would be proud of you after removing any form of God's name from services.
I know the scriptures are foreign to you and likely give a bad taste in your craw but for what it is worth:

(Isaiah 42:8) I am Jehovah. That is my name; I give my glory to no one else, Nor my praise to graven images.
(Exodus 3:15) Then God said once more to Moses: “This is what you are to say to the Israelites, ‘Jehovah the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

(Proverbs 3:5-7) Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, And do not rely on your own understanding.  6 In all your ways take notice of him, And he will make your paths straight.  7 Do not become wise in your own eyes. Fear Jehovah and turn away from bad.
(Proverbs 28:26) Whoever trusts in his own heart is stupid, But the one who walks in wisdom will escape.
(Psalm 9:10) Those knowing your name will trust in you; You will never abandon those seeking you, O Jehovah.
(Jeremiah 16:21) “So I will make them know, At this time I will make them know my power and my might, And they will have to know that my name is Jehovah.”

This post was edited by texasescimo at April 6, 2018 5:23 AM MDT

Be nice, Tex. I haven't mentioned the Watchtower or Jehovah's Witnesses on this thread.
You want to take that route, keep on poking with stupid remarks; otherwise, stay with me and explain your Jehovah friend.


 I am Jehovah. That is my name.

~Jehovah is his name because he said so.
~Jehovah can fold membranous tissue that project inward from the sides of the larynx to form a slit across the glottis in the throat, and whose edges vibrate in the air stream to produce the voice to say his name.
~A physical structure is needed to house the muscular and cartilaginous structure lined with mucous membrane at the upper part of the trachea with the vocal cords.
~Lungs are needed to provide air flow to activate the vocal cords to produce a sound. 
Is Jehovah a human?

Is this your way of being nice:
'I really don't care what name people call their private little god, cat dog, or goldfish.'

Comparing the God of the Bible to a goldfish and referring to Him as as my 'private little god' is being nice to you?

No, Jehovah is not a man.
(Numbers 23:17-21) So he came to him and saw that he was waiting by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moʹab were with him. Baʹlak asked him: “What has Jehovah said?” 18 Then he spoke this proverbial saying: “Get up, Baʹlak, and listen. Hear me, O son of Zipʹpor. 19 God is not a mere man who tells lies, Nor a son of man who changes his mind. When he says something, will he not do it? When he speaks, will he not carry it out? 20 Look! I have been taken to bless; Now He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. 21 He does not tolerate any magical power against Jacob, And he does not allow any trouble against Israel. Jehovah his God is with them, And he is loudly hailed as king among them.

(John 4:24) God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.”


You want a real answer to the question as to some of the bogus reasons given for removing God's name, see the answer by my2cents. Some info there I never heard or researched before.

Now that you bring it up, in my comment, "I really don't care what name people call their private little god, cat dog, or goldfish", I was referring to people in general. Now, I'm referring to you, since you want to make something out of nothing to do with you alone.
Go compare your human God from the bible to what ever you want to. The name, J E H O V A H, never existed until a Spanish Catholic munk invented it in the 13th century. Before 1260, the name J E HO V A H was never used. 

Call him Joe, Jah, Jimmy, Tom, Dick, or Harry. I don't care. You are too far brainwashed  from the junk printed in Watchtower material.

The name J E S U S never existed before someone that spoke English translated it into English either but Jesus Yeshua, Yehoshua, Yoshua, Joshua or what ever coherent transliteration or translation is still my Lord and Savior. 
Talk about brainwashed, you can't accept scriptural truth as it is in opposition to your religion.

what religion?

The religion you were brought up in that you reluctantly finally admitted in a thread with Catholics on answerbag that you were Catholic. Easier to throw stones while hiding your glass house. If you are still saying that you are not Catholic anymore, you really kinda sound Catholic defending the removal of the Divine name and preferring the use of Yahweh as a transliteration while totally rejecting any English translation.

Easier to throw stones while hiding in your glass house, is it?
LOL
No one knows better than Jehovah's Witnesses, always preparing for an unexpected stone in return.
LOL
Part of your bible studies, ain't it?
LOL

"... you really kinda sound Catholic ..." You sound like a real good judge on humans. Are you one of the 144,000 guaranteed a spot in heaven?
Do Catholics worship a human God like JWs do?

 

Did you not verbally attack JW's all over answermug while never admitting you were Catholic when I asked your religion? Was it not much later in a thread with other Catholics that you admitted that you were Catholic? Not a judge, I can just see through some of your smoke screens.
From what I have seen, there ain't much y'all don't worship, statues, toast that resembles a man, etc.

Admitting I was a Catholic on answermug? No.
You can see through smoke screens? Wow, you da man.
I don't worship statues and I don't worship a human god who speaks and said he wants to be Jehovah. Quite the imagination.

God is not the white bearded blue eyed man, or the blue multi armed woman, or the humble smiling obese oriental man, or some wise human prophet.

God is not what we think It is. God is not a thing, a being, a noun. It does not exist, as existence is defined, for It takes up no space and is not bound by time. Jewish mystics often refer to It as Ein Sof, which means Endlessness. If we say that the God portrayed in the bible is vindictive, jealous, angry, cruel, uncaring, or punitive, we cannot be referring to Ein Sof.

Sorry, I've read and studied the Bible. I know who God is as well as His name.

(Proverbs 3:5-7) Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, And do not rely on your own understanding.  6 In all your ways take notice of him, And he will make your paths straight.  7 Do not become wise in your own eyes. Fear Jehovah and turn away from bad.
(Isaiah 5:21) Woe to those wise in their own eyes And discreet in their own sight!

I respect you for reading the bible with such devotion and studying it leaving the knowledge you've collected.
 As for knowing God as well as His name; I believe St. Augustine said it best in the 4th century. "God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand, you have failed."

If, 2000 years later, All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness and we still don't understand, we never will.

Thank you but Augustine was wrong.

(John 17:1-3) Jesus spoke these things, and raising his eyes to heaven, he said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that your son may glorify you, 2 just as you have given him authority over all flesh, so that he may give everlasting life to all those whom you have given to him. 3 This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

(Psalm 9:9, 10) Jehovah will become a secure refuge for the oppressed, A secure refuge in times of distress. 10 Those knowing your name will trust in you; You will never abandon those seeking you, O Jehovah.
(Jeremiah 16:21) “So I will make them know, At this time I will make them know my power and my might, And they will have to know that my name is Jehovah.”

Just repeating myself.
If, 2000 years later, All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness and we still don't understand, we never will.

Not everyone is in your 'we'. If wanting to keep tradition, just read it as 'LORD' instead of 'Jehovah'. 

(Jeremiah 31:31-34) “Look! The days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “when I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their forefathers on the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, ‘my covenant that they broke, although I was their true master,’ declares Jehovah.” 33 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Jehovah. “I will put my law within them, and in their heart I will write it. And I will become their God, and they will become my people.” 34 “And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Jehovah!’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them,” declares Jehovah. “For I will forgive their error, and I will no longer remember their sin.”

(Mark 7:13) Thus you make the word of God invalid by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

(John 17:26) I have made your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in union with them.”

EDIT: If you want to know God, you need to read His word.

(Proverbs 2:1-6) My son, if you accept my sayings And treasure up my commandments,  2 By making your ear attentive to wisdom And inclining your heart to discernment;  3 Moreover, if you call out for understanding And raise your voice for discernment;  4 If you keep seeking for it as for silver, And you keep searching for it as for hidden treasures;  5 Then you will understand the fear of Jehovah, And you will find the knowledge of God.  6 For Jehovah himself gives wisdom; From his mouth come knowledge and discernment.

(1 John 4:6-8) We originate with God. Whoever comes to know God listens to us; whoever does not originate with God does not listen to us. By this we distinguish the inspired statement of truth from the inspired statement of error. 7 Beloved ones, let us continue loving one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.


Interesting article in relation to Augustine's claim, contrary to what the Bible says. Haven't read it all yet but will by studied tomorrow at the meeting.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2018282
Do You Know Jehovah as Did Noah, Daniel, and Job?

“Evil men cannot understand justice, but those who seek Jehovah can understand everything.”​—PROV. 28:5.

This post was edited by texasescimo at April 14, 2018 7:10 AM MDT

Quote: [In August 2008, the Holy See issued a directive regarding the use of “Yahweh” in sacred music and public prayer. 
Two reasons were given:
First, Christians have never used this name to address God in public worship.
Second, the actual oral pronunciation of “Yahweh” is considered potentially offensive to Jewish people.


Your Church used to use "Yahweh" but then again you said Christians have never used this name.

True Christians have always used the form of the Divine Name in their language although your Church tried to stifle it with threats and murder. In ancient Hebrew, likely Yehowah but no one knows the exact pronunciation due to an unscriptural tradition. in modern English, Jehovah.

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Quote: [As to the JW’s here are a few comments from the internet that seem pretty accurate to me:

What the "door to door class" of Jehovah's Witnesses doesn't know, is that all the scholars who say trinity is pagan in that booklet are themselves Bible trashers who reject the virgin birth and the resurrection of Christ and the inspiration of the Bible.

The expression, "Jehovah's Witnesses" did not exist prior to it becoming a kind of corporate trademark name of the salesmen of the Watchtower book selling company after 1930 AD. For 2000 years the followers of Christ have called themselves "Christians", never "Yahweh's" or "Jehovah's Witnesses."]


After the apostasy and the advancement of the Catholic Church and other Churches claiming to be Christian, the term 'Christian' was muddied. Catholic is not in the Bible.
(Isaiah 43:10-12) “You are my witnesses,” declares Jehovah, “Yes, my servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and have faith in me And understand that I am the same One. Before me no God was formed, And after me there has been none. 11 I—I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no savior.” 12 “I am the One who declared and saved and made known When there was no foreign god among you. So you are my witnesses,” declares Jehovah, “and I am God.

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Quote: [And one more:

About the 13th century the term "Jehovah" appeared when Christian scholars took the consonants of "Yahweh" and pronounced it with the vowels of "Adonai." This resulted in the sound "Yahowah," which has a Latinized spelling of "Jehovah." The first recorded use of this spelling was made by a Spanish Dominican monk, Raymundus Martini, in 1270.

Interestingly, this fact is admitted in much Jehovah's Witness literature, such as their Aid to Bible Understanding (p. 885). This is surprising because Jehovah's Witnesses loathe the Catholic Church and have done everything in their power to strip their church of traces of Catholicism. Despite this, their group's very name contains a Catholic "invention," the name "Jehovah."

Jehovah's Witnesses blast orthodox Christendom for "hiding the name of God" by replacing "Jehovah" with "the Lord" whenever "Jehovah" appears in Scripture. They charge this is a Jewish "superstition" that dishonors God (which it does not). Yet their own organization has a name that was invented as a result of the same thinking that produced use of "the Lord."]

 

 

If he came up with Yahowah, he was close but theophoric names use an 'e' rather than an 'a'. Jehoshaphat and Jehoash for example.



Curious, after the murder of Jews in the middle ages and concentration camps, when did the Catholic Church get so concerned about offending Jews?
They used to use Yahweh, a form of transliteration of the tetragrammaton.

EDIT:

2 Kings 12:19 Catholic NAB
https://www.usccb.org/bible/2kings/12
Joash,^* king of Judah, took all the sacred offerings presented by his forebears, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, as well as his own, and all the gold there was in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the king’s house, and sent them to King Hazael of Aram, who then turned away from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12:19 Catholic NJB
https://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=12&bible_chapter=12

Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings dedicated by his ancestors, the kings of Judah, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, with those which he himself had dedicated, and all the gold which was to be found in the treasuries of the Temple of Yahweh and of the palace; he sen it all to Hazael king of Aram, who retired from Jerusalem.

This post was edited by texasescimo at April 3, 2018 12:52 PM MDT

This is still sung at Mass occasionally - that's where I learned it in the 1970s (I was raised RC)

Pretty song. Are you sure they still do? Have you heard it there since 2008?


Here is an article that originally appeared in catholicnews but no longer there.
https://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/liturgy/liturgical-quod-libets/95-liturgy/liturgical-quod-libets/288-yahweh-in-the-liturgy.html
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https://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0804119.htm
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No 'Yahweh' in songs, prayers at Catholic Masses, Vatican rules
By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In the not-too-distant future, songs such as "You Are Near," "I Will Bless Yahweh" and "Rise, O Yahweh" will no longer be part of the Catholic worship experience in the United States.
At the very least, the songs will be edited to remove the word "Yahweh" -- a name of God that the Vatican has ruled must not "be used or pronounced" in songs and prayers during Catholic Masses.
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The Tetragrammaton is YHWH, the four consonants of the ancient Hebrew name for God.
"As an expression of the infinite greatness and majesty of God, it was held to be unpronounceable and hence was replaced during the reading of sacred Scripture by means of the use of an alternate name: 'Adonai,' which means 'Lord,'" the Vatican letter said. Similarly, Greek translations of the Bible used the word "Kyrios" and Latin scholars translated it to "Dominus"; both also mean Lord.

You got me - it was in the early 2000s. My mother visited from Sydney, so I accompanied her to the local Catholic church (she remained RC until her death, my "loss of faith" was a disappointment to her, despite the fact that I'm more a disciple of Christ now than I ever was as a Catholic and have a deeper personal relationship with Him). I can't recall having heard it since, but then again I've rarely been inside a Catholic church since. Midnight Mass every year with my daughter (who converted - thanks, Mum!), they only sing carols at that. Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, also at my daughter's request - that song is also inappropriate for that particular liturgy. And Mum's funeral.

The preface to some translations like the Revised Standard give their reasons. Prior to that revision, the American Standard included 'Jehovah' in the Hebrew scriptures.

[Why do many Bible translations not use the personal name of God or use it only a few times?
The preface of the Revised Standard Version explains: “For two reasons the Committee has returned to the more familiar usage of the King James Version: (1) the word ‘Jehovah’ does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew; and (2) the use of any proper name for the one and only God, as though there were other gods from whom he had to be distinguished, was discontinued in Judaism before the Christian era and is entirely inappropriate for the universal faith of the Christian Church.” (Thus their own view of what is appropriate has been relied on as the basis for removing from the Holy Bible the personal name of its Divine Author, whose name appears in the original Hebrew more often than any other name or any title. They admittedly follow the example of the adherents of Judaism, of whom Jesus said: “You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.”—Matt. 15:6.)
Translators who have felt obligated to include the personal name of God at least once or perhaps a few times in the main text, though not doing so every time it appears in Hebrew, have evidently followed the example of William Tyndale, who included the divine name in his translation of the Pentateuch published in 1530, thus breaking with the practice of leaving the name out altogether.]

Hey thanks. That was really helpful. I appreciate it. :)

Jesus called the Father "Abba" (Mt 6:9). A literal translation of that one is "Daddy". Respectful yes, but also with the innocence and dependence of a child.