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So was Jehovah really God's original name?

It's time for the Line of Fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown,

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Hey friends, Michael Brown here. It is thoroughly Jewish Thursday. I've written about this. I've talked about it in the past, but we're going to devote some real in-depth time on today's show to discuss this subject. It comes up constantly. I want to say

this first, though, God is not so concerned with the proper pronunciation of his name. In fact,

I believe that there is some mysteries surrounding the pronunciation for good reason. In any case, something that may have made more sense in ancient Hebrew,

once you bring it into English, it's just going to be a name.

Like my name, Michael, doesn't have any specific meaning in English.

It goes back to Hebrew, Mikhael, who is like God.

In English, it's just Michael. So if you are worshiping the God

of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, if you are worshiping the God who created the universe, if you

are worshipping the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, if you are worshipping that one God,

the one true God, the only God, the beginning and the end, the

alpha and the omega. If you're worshipping that God, I'm referring to him as Yahweh or Jehovah or Jehovah,

or some other pronunciation, we can rule out so many of them. But if you're worshipping that God, the specific

way that you refer to him within these parameters is secondary to knowing who he is. So I want

to emphasize that first. All right, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to read to you from the Anchor Bible

Dictionary, became the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, one of the best, most comprehensive Bible dictionaries,

not written necessarily all by believers in terms of the articles, but top scholars in their

fields. I'm going to read that in a moment. Let me say this first. Overwhelmingly,

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