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Hebrew has vowels. It did not originally have vowels in it's writing system. They were still pronounced in spoken hebrew. Modern Hebrew has added it in the form of dots. It is a guess though yes. But any guess of the vowel is fine in my mind.

To be honest I think you are reading to much into it. In my experience, people who use that word are folks trying to learn a little bit about Hebrew to understand better things from Jesus's point of view. Any attempt to pronounce it closer to the way it was first pronounced seems like they are making an attempt to understand better who G-d is. And isn't that a good thing over all?

The immediate response to MW’s book was summary dismissal and ridicule. The entire premise is quite clearly antithetical to Christianity, MW’s own personal intentions notwithstanding.

Unfortunately, even more apostate men than MW quickly stumbled across his blasphemy. John Thomas and the Christadelphians, a Unitarian sect was thrilled with MW’s “new Christology” as it helped them amplifying their own proto-Zionist dispensationalism.

The publication records show MW’s “Yahveh” spelling took off in the 1880s, peaking around 1890, and then rapidly falling off again by 1900. The trivially variant spelling “Yahweh” which we take for granted today lingered in the background, until exploding this century.

So what are we to make of all this?

Firstly, the behavior of un-translating God’s “I am” back into some particular ancient sound has at most six centuries of history. The idea of replacing the Word with some specific noise is a novelty without theological warrant.

Secondly, the specific genealogy of the <2 century-old “Yahweh” is 100% evil. A philologist briefly flubs an unimportant academic question. A man who denies the Inspiration of Scripture uses that error to read back into Scripture words that are literally absent. But of course these tactics always appeal to indolent Christians who revel in snatching shiny baubles off the ground and carrying them into their churches and hearts, where they are baptized as sound doctrine, against all reason, history, or Scriptural warrant.

Nobody cares what they meant when they came up with a plainly novel, extra-Christian idea.

“Oh that sounds nice, and isn’t it pious! Why this just feels so authentically Judeo-Christian”.

Yes, yes it does. And that is the real root of the problem.

All this arguing and infighting over vowel pronunciation seems pretty silly. I don't think any christian pronounces a single name in the biblical text like it was pronounced originally. Languages naturally change. It's just a pointer in computer speak.

This guy goes into a pretty indepth origin analysis. If you have another source not behind a login I would love to read over it. It's an interesting topic.

https://youtu.be/mdKst8zeh-U?si=mox7MbGEGBIgym7K

Can only see first post because I dont have a login. But I've watched a video on the name's origins. And it's said it came from a old proto Hebrew pantheon of gods. Y****h being the thunder god. Lots of historical evidence pointing to this. And I've heard yet another person talk about in the time of Babylon the monotheistic idea came about to unit the Jews into a single culture. In a area very divided by different gods and people identifying with one or another. This culture gave rise to the three modern day Abrahamic religions.

To me this does not made my G-d any less real. If you believe in 1 His name doesn't matter. How you awaken to his existence is just like two people being born in two different places and having two different words that both mean sky. We understand our surroundings by first understanding iser surroundings. Perhaps they needed a story of a thunder war god to have the mental tools necessary to form a mental image and express what a creator is.

Whether it's God, Yehweh, the Dao or any other representation of the infinite of who's fabric we are cut it doesn't matter to me.

Would just get stuck in spam filters. Atleast use a alt and a VPN for that.

Anything really. The fedi drama has been pretty good. I think people would come to see it. And it has nothing to do with Bitcoin and the federal reserve

Lol, The hexbear drama is getting weird.

It's just like TypeScript. It's basically 200 lines in a single file and not hard at all to learn. I wrote this bot to learn dart. So it uses basically zero advanced features.

I signed up for a month to try it out.

I think the network effect really is big. And nostr already has a really big network. Likely bigger than Lemmy. I don't think there is anything I would want to keep from the backend. Some of the mobile clients are pretty good though so we could write a backend and keep the API almost the same. Then have minimal effort to adjust the front end. Getting other people on board to host instances would be the hardest part. And very likely could fail I'm just throwing out ideas here. It might be better to build a layer on top of nostr to get those hard to implement features like stickied post.

Wall of tears asking someone to stop talking about religion because some priest she could have ignored told her to stop being a whore. Go back to twitter.

Request from adulterer to censor denied. Send sats and nudes. Bitcoin and chill 420 blaze it