Okay guys, just letting you know that I'm working on compiling significant information that will show you that God most definitely does have a personal name. I will include my sources, including published works and findings of historians, professors, scholars, and archaeologists. I will also provide direct quotes from published works from sources such as the Vatican and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Here is a short list of published works that use Gods personal name (all of which were produced long before the New World Translation):
A Literal Translation of the New Testament . . . From the Text of the Vatican Manuscript, by Herman Heinfetter (1863)
- The Emphatic Diaglott, by Benjamin Wilson (1864)
- The Epistles of Paul in Modern English, by George Barker Stevens (1898)
- St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, by W. G. Rutherford (1900)
- The Christian’s Bible—New Testament, by George N. LeFevre (1928)
- The New Testament Letters, by J.W.C. Wand, Bishop of London (1946)
I will provide a list of dozens and dozens of other Bible translations and reference works that use Gods personal name, including the Catholic Jerusalem Bible and the Catholic La Biblia Latinoamerica, which freely use Gods name.
In fact, there are almost 100 different language translations that use Gods name, (the vernacular form of the Tetragrammaton). Clearly, the New World Translation was not the first Bible to use Gods personal name.
Here is a sample quote of one of many highly regarded authorities on the subject of the existence and usage of the Divine name:
Professor George Howard wrote: “We have three separate pre-Christian copies of the Greek Septuagint Bible and in not a single instance is the Tetragrammaton translated kyrios or for that matter translated at all. We can now say with near certainty that it was a Jewish practice before, during, and after the New Testament period to write the divine name . . . right into the Greek text of Scripture.”—Biblical Archaeology Review.
I'm going to share with you are many, many verifiable resources that will show you that God indeed does have a personal name. If you choose not to use it, that's on you. Some still refuse to acknowledge or accept this enlightening and convincing evidence of Gods personal name throughout the Old and the New Testament (the Hebrew and the Greek scriptures) for their own reasons. But millions of people, myself included, feel strongly otherwise! Just be ready to be surprised if you previously thought that God and his son are one and the same, or that God is part of a trinity.