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Originally Posted by Ohio
Nearly every time I have heard these OT "tetragrandmas" over the years, it seemed they were accompanied by the flavor of pride. The smell of an arrogance of superiority over us lowly "Jesus" callers, using the ... gulp! ... letter "J".
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Well, there's a couple ways that I could respond. Certainly there is a danger of being arrogant, like "my way of pronouncing a word is superior to yours". I had leftist friends back in the '80s, when the Iran-Contra thing was going on, who would pronounce Nicaragua as "HNEE-ga-ra-wa" as if that showed their intelligence and superior breeding. But they didn't pronounce Mexico as "MAY-hee-ko" or France as "La Frawnce", so why the insistence on the "proper" pronunciation of Nicaragua?
And certainly there were the legal beagles in Jesus' day, who insisted everything must be just so.
But on the other hand, the sons of the king are free. So if we want to call God "Daddy-O" or "Dad" or "Pops" or "Dad" or "Abba" or "Father God" etc we are free to do so. So we are free to use names that we want, as long as we do so with respect to God and to others. We don't insist on names as Christians, but we don't exalt terminology as superior and somehow more spiritual than others.
Probably there is balance there somewhere. I apologize if I have been annoying or distracting with my freedom.