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Originally Posted by awareness

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.

Most scholars believe "Jehovah" to be a late (c. 1100 CE) hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters JHVH with the vowels of Adonai, but there is some evidence that it may already have been in use in Late Antiquity (5th century). [Wikipedia] Lee made the choice based on personal taste even though it went against linguistic probability. It was aesthetics over accuracy. As far as I am concerned that would have been OK for him personally had he not insisted that everyone in his organization had to follow him absolutely. Go to an LC meeting, cite another Bible translation and see how long you last before they chant you out of there.