Tradition Trumps Truth: Jehovah - The Recovery's Misnomer - Tomes

[Ohio]

W. Lee never points out the Medieval origin of ‘Jehovah,’ nor does he relate this artificial, pseudo-Hebrew term to the underlying Hebrew YHWH and Yahweh. Rather, W. Lee’s exposits the divine name, Jehovah, as follows:

“The name of God that occurs most frequently in the Old Testament is Jehovah or Yehovah. In Hebrew this name is composed of three words: Je represents a word, ho represents a word, and vah also represents a word. Je means ‘is,’ ho means ‘was,’ and vah means ‘will be.’ Therefore, Jehovah translated into English is ‘the One who is, was, and always will be’.” [W. Lee, Ten Lines in the Bible, Ch. 1, Sect. 2]

This kind of exposition leaves one at a loss for words! It is pure fabrication, 100% fiction, devoid of any basis in fact! It simply manifests the expositor’s ignorance. Evidently, here is someone with zero knowledge of biblical Hebrew teaching falsehoods to people who know even less! It is clear from what has been presented above that “Jehovah” is not a genuine Hebrew word, but a pseudo-Hebrew term that resulted from mistranslation. It follows that it makes no sense to parse “Jehovah” into three components—Je, Ho and Vah; in this context none of these elements has the meaning Witness Lee claims. This is yet another exegetical fallacy and a serious one.

How dare Nigel Tomes expose Lee's nonsensical exposition of the name of God!!! DCP should sue him for all the Canadian dollars he has!! I'm kidding of course, or am I??

It looks like this is one of those many "compilations" that LSM loves to publish. It's just amazing how they can take one message or conference and make 6 books out of it! Since this book came out in 2004, who knows which of the "Blundeds" came up with this whopper -- just make up new stuff -- this is the Lord's Recovery!!!

This is exactly what happens when a minister and a publisher have no vetting process, internal or external. They publish for a closed audience who, like mushrooms, are kept in the dark and fed manure.

[Freedom]

Originally Posted by Ohio

How dare Nigel Tomes expose Lee's nonsensical exposition of the name of God!!! DCP should sue him for all the Canadian dollars he has!! I'm kidding of course, or am I??

It looks like this is one of those many "compilations" that LSM loves to publish. It's just amazing how they can take one message or conference and make 6 books out of it! Since this book came out in 2004, who knows which of the "Blundeds" came up with this whopper -- just make up new stuff -- this is the Lord's Recovery!!!

This is exactly what happens when a minister and a publisher have no vetting process, internal or external. They publish for a closed audience who, like mushrooms, are kept in the dark and fed manure.

I was always aware that WL had the tendency to make questionable statements, and generally, I had no trouble ignoring these things in the past. As is the case with many other LCers, my position was simply that WL could have said things better.

More recently, I have noticed things that WL said that, as Nigel puts it, were pure fabrication. It's impossible to respect WL when it is clear that he knowingly spoke falsehoods under the guise of expounding scripture. As Nigel has pointed out, he likely relied on the ignorance of his audience as his free pass for doing this. Of course LC leaders will inevitably characterize Nigel's evaluation of WL as an "attack". There is no willingness among anyone in the LC to examine just how far off-course they are.

The true situation of the LC is so clear now, yet members are still in the dark. A few years ago, I became aware of the 'Jehovah' issue when a newcomer to the LC that I'm from started questioning our use of 'Jehovah' in the OT RcV. I didn't think much of it at the time, but I realized that he probably knew the Bible a lot better than the elders did. At any rate, the elders didn't like this one bit and he wasn't around long. The whole situation just served to show me how opposed LCers are to receiving any form of correction. In a certain respect, they want to remain in the darkness. As the old saying goes, ignorance is bliss. They must not realize that there is nothing better than the manure that they are being fed. Granted, to admit that the manure is manure might be devastating to some who have invested their entire lives in a man and a ministry. The situation is sad really.