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Originally Posted by OBW
I find the "classic English Literature" argument to be somewhat meaningless. Isn't that what gives us the prpoensity to morph into some kind of altered persona when we pray, suddenly speaking about "thou" who "doest" (or "dost") etc. It is so funny. It bugged me as a young teenager in the Assemblies of God how faces contorted, language changed, and voices alterd (typically down 1/2 to a whole octave).
Lots of posturing for a God that technically doesn't speak any of our languages, or more rightly, speaks all of them better than anyone. What is the draw for making ancient English be "God's language"?
This is sort of a Cargo Cult observation and it seems to cover the whole of Christianity, including the LRC.
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This Jehovah thing is not the only
>Cargo Cult< aspect of the local church. The idea that, if we can only make the church today like the early church in Acts, is a cargo cult conception. The idea is, if we can only make the church today just like the early church, if we can get it just right, then God will send the cargo, Pentecost, all over again. It's reverse engineering, when that's not how the early church was formed. We can't trick the Holy Spirit into coming.
That's why we needed the MOTA. We put all the tumblers of the lock in the right place, and God sent the cargo, in the form of the MOTA.
And the MOTA tells us that translating the divine tetragrammaton into Jehovah is how God wants it. Cuz, obviously, God prefers classic English literature. In fact, it must be, His favorite past time reading material. After all, God's got a lot of time to kill.
Funny question: When God kills time, does it injure eternity?
This RcV Jehovah thing is just as funny as my goofy question.