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June 27, 2012—SndyerTalk Editorial: Excuses People Use to Justify Not Calling God by His Name

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Excuses People Use to Justify Not Calling God by His Name

Reducing the risk of using God’s Name in vain or blaspheming His Name are the two most logical reasons advanced for not saying it or writing it.  However, over the centuries people have come up with many more so-called “justifications” for not using His Name.  They include the following:

  • It is too sacred.
  • We are not required to use it.
  • It has no real value.
  • Yahweh is a Hebrew Name, and people who do not speak Hebrew are not required to use it.
  • Only Jews are required to use the Name “Yahweh.”
  • Jesus and His disciples did not use the Name “Yahweh” so we are not required to use it either.
  • The correct pronunciation of God’s Name has been lost over time.
  • Jehovah is the Name for God most commonly used today, and it is sufficient and appropriate.
  • God knows when we are addressing Him so the name we use is unimportant.
  • God has not convicted me personally about the importance of using the Name “Yahweh.”
  • Moses was the first person to use the Name “Yahweh” so the Name itself is not eternal.[i]

These are just a few of the many excuses people have come up with to defend their practice of not using God’s Name, and none of them stand up under careful scrutiny.  For instance, while it is true that Moses took Yahweh’s Name to the Children of Israel when they were in bondage in Egypt, Enosh—Seth’s son and Adam’s grandson—invoked His Name shortly after the creation.  In chapter 10, you will see that Jesus and His disciples used Yahweh’s Name, and the Psalms talk repeatedly about the importance of declaring His Name.  Further, no one should require Yahweh to convict them personally about the importance of obeying each explicit command in the Scriptures.  We should obey Him because we love Him.  In fact, there is no good excuse for disobeying God, and He commanded us to declare His Name to the world.  That much is certain.

Are You Ready to Embrace Yahweh’s Clear Instructions?

Misguided tradition concealed Yahweh’s Name from us for centuries, but it was right in front of us all the time shrouded by titles that Yahweh never intended as substitutes for His Name.  God’s Word makes it clear that we are supposed to know His Name, to call Him by His Name, and to tell others about Him by Name.

The Scriptures make it clear that Yahweh condemns anything that contradicts His Word.  Therefore, not using God’s Name is one tradition we should abandon—and the sooner the better.  I’ll go even farther.  Since the Bible says repeatedly that “everyone who calls on the Name of Yahweh will be saved”[ii] and that “there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved,”[iii] ignoring this message is foolish and dangerous.

This is an excerpt from His Name is Yahweh.  It explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s a book that you need to read and share.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

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[i] Most of these rationalizations are discussed in The Sacred Name Volume I Third Edition by R. Clover, Qadesh La Yahweh Press, Garden Grove, California, 2002, pp. xv-xvi.

[ii] Joel 2: 32, Acts 2: 21, and Romans 10: 13.

[iii] Acts 4: 12.

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Ezekiel 4: 4-8

“As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.  For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.  When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.  Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.  Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.”

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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

  • God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
  • “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.  In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

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