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Beliefs
Jehovah’s Witnesses see themselves as a worldwide brotherhood that transcends national boundaries and national and ethnic loyalties.

They believe that since Christ proclaimed that his kingdom was no part of the world and refused to accept a temporal crown, they too must keep separate from the world and refrain from political involvement.

Gene Owens; Nieman Reports, Fall 1997
Like many reforming churches, the Witnesses base their lives and beliefs on the example of the early Christian Church and the words of the Bible.

The Bible
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe the Bible was inspired by God and is historically accurate.

They see the Bible as the main way in which God communicates his will to human beings, and they interpret it literally (except for passages that are obviously meant to be symbolic or poetic).

Witnesses test any religious idea or teaching against the Bible – if an idea or teaching doesn’t agree with the Bible then they regard it as wrong.

The Bible itself reveals why it is so accurate in scientific, historical, and other matters and why it is so harmonious and honest.

It shows that the Supreme Being, the almighty God, the Creator who authored the universe, is the Bible’s Author. He merely used human Bible writers as his penmen, moving them by his powerful active force to put down what he inspired them to write.

What is the Purpose of Life? brochure published by Jehovah’s Witnesses
The Witnesses have their own translation of the Bible – the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. They refer to the ‘New Testament’ as the Christian Greek Scriptures, and they call the ‘Old Testament’ the Hebrew Scriptures.

While they don’t regard them as scripture, Witnesses greatly respect the various doctrinal articles published in The Watchtower. Charles Taze Russell’s books Studies in Scriptures are respected but are no longer circulated or relied upon.

God
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that:

God the Father (whose name is Jehovah) is “the only true God”.
Jesus Christ is his firstborn son, is inferior to God, and was created by God.
The Holy Spirit is not a person; it is God’s active force.
The Jehovah’s Witness beliefs about God are outlined in detail below.

God (the Father):

God is a single being whose personal name is Jehovah
they also accept the name Yahweh and other transliterations
Jehovah is alone, and above all other beings
Jehovah created everything that exists
Jehovah has a son called Jesus Christ
Jesus is not God
Jesus is not equal to God
Jesus was God’s first creation
Jehovah then created everything else through Jesus Christ
Jehovah’s outstanding qualities are love, justice, wisdom, and power.
Jesus Christ:

Jesus Christ is a mighty being, but he is not God
Jesus Christ is a lesser and separate spirit being
Jesus Christ is not equal to God in power or eternity (i.e. age)
Jesus Christ never thought of himself as God or equal to God
Jesus Christ is the son of God
Jesus Christ was created by Jehovah as his first creation
So Jesus had a beginning and thus cannot not be eternal
Jesus Christ is inferior to Jehovah, but superior to the angels
Jesus Christ rules as part of God’s heavenly kingdom
Jesus Christ is the Messiah predicted in the Old Testament
Jesus Christ came to earth from heaven
When Jesus was on earth he was a perfect human being, but he was not divine in any way
Jesus Christ gave his human life as a sacrifice to make human salvation possible
Witnesses believe that Jesus did not die on a cross but on a single pole or stake
Witnesses believe that Jesus had a spirit resurrection, not a bodily one
Jesus Christ has been appointed by God to judge each human being and decide on their fate
Jesus Christ will be used by God to resurrect the dead
The Holy Spirit:

The holy spirit is Jehovah’s active force that he uses to accomplish his will
The holy spirit is not a person
The holy spirit is not part of a Trinity
The Trinity:

The traditional Christian idea that God is a ‘Trinity’ of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is false and based on pagan ideas
The doctrine of the Trinity is inconsistent with the Bible
The doctrine of the Trinity contradicts what the prophets, Jesus, the apostles, and the early Christians believed and taught
The cross
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus did not die on a cross but on single stake.

This belief is based on the Greek words used in the Bible for the cross, which literally translate as ’stake’ and ‘tree’.

Modern Witnesses regard the Cross as a pagan symbol and do not use it, although it was accepted by the movement until 1931.

Death, Heaven and Hell
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that when a person dies, their existence completely stops.

This is because the Bible makes it clear that human beings do not have an immortal soul that survives when the body dies.

The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all … f

the Inspired Prophets, Apostles, and the Savior? Absolutely none! There are no verses in all of the bible giving anyone authority to change the Inspired Scriptures.

In fact, there are curses
pronounced on anyone who does. Notice:

Revelation 22:18-19— 18 For I testify to everyone who hears the Words of the Prophecy of this Book: If any man will add to these things, it will come to pass that he will add to himself the plagues
that are written in this Book: 19 And if any man will take away from the Words of the Book of this Prophecy, it will come to pass that he will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of
Yahweh Shammah, and from the things which are written in this Book.

Deuteronomy 12:32—
Whatsoever I command you, be careful to observe and do it, you shall not add to it,
nor take away from it.

Why does the King James Version use
lord instead of the Creator’s True Name,
Yahweh? Notice the following
information from the Catechism of the
Catholic Church, page 204.

II. GOD REVEALS HIS NAME
203 God revealed himself to his people
Israel by making his name known to them.
A name expresses a person’s essence and
identity and the meaning of this person’s
life. God has a name; he is not an
anonymous force. To disclose one’s name
is to make oneself known to others; in a
way it is to hand oneself over by becoming
accessible, capable of being known more
intimately and addressed personally.

209 Out of respect for the holiness of God,
the people of Israel do not pronounce his
name. In the reading of Sacred Scripture,
the revealed name (Yhwh) is replaced by
the divine title “Lord” (in Hebrew Adonai,
in Greek Kyrios). It is under this title that
the divinity of Jesus will be acclaimed:
“Jesus is LORD.”

LORD. The rendering of several Heb. and
Gk. words, which have different
meanings:
1. Jehovah (yahweh; Heb. YHWH,“self-existent”). This is used as a proper name of God and should have been retained in that form by the translators.See (The) LORD; Yahweh.

2. Lord (Heb. Adon), an early word denoting ownership; hence, absolute control. It is not properly a divine title,…”

BA’AL. (ba’al; Heb. ba’al, “lord,
possessor”).
1. A common name for god among the Phoenicians; also the name of their chief male god. See Gods, False. 2. The word is used of the master of a house (Ex. 22:7; Judg. 19:22), of the landowner (Job 31:39), of an owner of cattle (Ex. 21:28: Isa. 1:3), and so on. The word is often used as a prefix to names of towns and men, e.g., Baal-god. Baal-hanan.

Yeremyah(Jeremiah) 23:26-27, BOY—
26 How long will this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies? Yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own minds; 27 Who devise; plan and scheme, to cause My People to forget My Name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor, just as their fathers have forgotten My Name for Baal; Lord.

see also Jeremiah 23:13
www.yahweh.com

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?

2. Where did matter come from?

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)

11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?

12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?

13. When, where, why, and how did
a. Single-celled plants become multi-celled? (Where are the two and three-celled intermediates?)
b. Single-celled animals evolve?
c. Fish change to amphibians?
d. Amphibians change to reptiles?
e. Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!)
f. How did the intermediate forms live?

14. When, where, why, how, and from what did:
a. Whales evolve?
b. Sea horses evolve?
c. Bats evolve?
d. Eyes evolve?
e. Ears evolve?
f. Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?

15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)?
a. The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)?
b. The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce?
c. The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs?
d. DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts?
e. The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose?
f. The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants?
g. The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones?
h. The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system?
i. The immune system or the need for it?

16. There are many thousands of examples of symbiosis that defy an evolutionary explanation. Why must we teach students that evolution is the only explanation for these relationships?

17. How would evolution explain mimicry? Did the plants and animals develop mimicry by chance, by their intelligent choice, or by design?

18. When, where, why, and how did man evolve feelings? Love, mercy, guilt, etc. would never evolve in the theory of evolution.

19. How did photosynthesis evolve?

20. How did thought evolve?

21. How did flowering plants evolve, and from what?

22. What kind of evolutionist are you? Why are you not one of the other eight or ten kinds?

23. What would you have said fifty years ago if I told you I had a living coelacanth in my aquarium?

24. Is there one clear prediction of macroevolution that has proved true?

25. What is so scientific about the idea of hydrogen gas becoming human?

26. Do you honestly believe that everything came from nothing?

After you have answered the preceding questions, please look carefully at your answers and thoughtfully consider the following questions.

1. Are you sure your answers are reasonable, right, and scientifically provable, or do you just believe that it may have happened the way you have answered? (Do these answers reflect your religion or your science?)

2. Do your answers show more or less faith than the person who says, “God must have designed it”?

3. Is it possible that an unseen Creator designed this universe? If God is excluded at the beginning of the discussion by your definition of science, how could it be shown that He did create the universe if He did?

4. Is it wise and fair to present the theory of evolution to students as fact?

5. What is the end result of a belief in evolution (lifestyle, society, attitude about others, eternal destiny, etc.)?

6. Do people accept evolution because of the following factors?
a. It is all they have been taught.
b. They like the freedom from God (no moral absolutes, etc.).
c. They are bound to support the theory for fear of losing their job or status or grade point average.
d. They are too proud to admit they are wrong.

what is the possibility that all the Prophets where sent to reveal higher understandings of love as sent by our “creators which came from the sky”?

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1- Big Bang

“Do not the Unbelievers see
That the heavens and the earth
Were joined together (as one
Unit of creation), before
We clove them asunder?”
(Qur’an, 21:30)

2- The expanding universe:

“With the power and skill
Did We construct
The Heaven:
And indeed, We
Are (its) expander”
(51:47)

3- Description of the sequence of embryonic stages:

“And We placed him (i.e. man) as a sperm-drop
In a firm lodging (i.e. the womb)
Then We made the sperm-drop
Into a clinging clot, and We made
The clot into a lump (of flesh),
And We made (from) the lump, bones,
And We clothed the bones with flesh;
Then We developed him into
Another creation. So blessed is
God, the Best of creators.”
(23:13,14)

In the preface of the book “The developing human“, by Dr. Keith Moore, of Canada, it is mentioned that the description of the Qur’an of the embryonic stages is astonishingly accurate!

4- The sun will eventually consume itself totally:

“And the sun
Runs its course
For a period determined
For it; that is
The decree of (Him)
The Exalted in Might,
The All-Knowing”
(Qur’an 36:38)

The same message is also found in 13:2, 35:13, 39:5 and 39:21.
5- The Orbiting and revolving of the sun:

“It is He Who created
The night and the day,
And the sun and the moon:
All (the celestial bodies)
Swimming, each in its
Rounded course”
(Qur’an, 21:33)

Also

“It is not permitted
To the Sun to catch up
The moon, nor can
The night outstrip the day:
Each (just) swims along
In (its own) orbit
(According to Law)”
(Qur’an 36:40)

7- Barrier between river and sea water after they mix at the end of the river:

“And it is He who has released
(Simultaneously) the two bodies
Of water, one fresh and palatable
And one salty and bitter, and
He placed between them a barrier
And prohibiting partition.”
(25:53)

9- Every living thing is made of water (the basic substance of a living cell is made up of 80% water):

“…….
And We made from water
Every living thing
….”
(21:30)

Also

“And God has created
Every animal from water”
(24:45)
10- Fruits have male and female organs:

“And fruit
Of every kind He made
Two mates”
(13:3)

Also

“Exalted is He who created all
Pairs all things that the earth
Grows, as well as
Their own (human) kind
And (other) things of which
They have no knowledge”
(36:36)

We can gain a better understanding of the concept of God in Hinduism by analysing Hindu scriptures.

BHAGAVAD GITA

The most popular amongst all the Hindu scriptures is the Bhagavad Gita.

Consider the following verse from the Gita:

“Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.”
[Bhagavad Gita 7:20]

The Gita states that people who are materialistic worship demigods i.e. ‘gods’ besides the True God.

UPANISHADS:

The Upanishads are considered sacred scriptures by the Hindus.

The following verses from the Upanishads refer to the Concept of God:

1.

“Ekam evadvitiyam”
“He is One only without a second.”
[Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]1
2.

“Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah.”
“Of Him there are neither parents nor lord.”
[Svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9]2
3.

“Na tasya pratima asti”
“There is no likeness of Him.”
[Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19]3
4.

The following verses from the Upanishad allude to the inability of man to imagine God in a particular form:

“Na samdrse tisthati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam.”

“His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye.”
[Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]4

THE VEDAS
Vedas are considered the most sacred of all the Hindu scriptures. There are four principal Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samveda and Atharvaveda.

1. Yajurveda
The following verses from the Yajurveda echo a similar concept of God:

1.

“na tasya pratima asti
“There is no image of Him.”
[Yajurveda 32:3]5
2.

“shudhama poapvidham”
“He is bodyless and pure.”
[Yajurveda 40:8]6
3.

“Andhatama pravishanti ye asambhuti mupaste”
“They enter darkness, those who worship the natural elements” (Air, Water, Fire, etc.). “They sink deeper in darkness, those who worship sambhuti.”
[Yajurveda 40:9]7

Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair, idol, etc.
4.

The Yajurveda contains the following prayer:
“Lead us to the good path and remove the sin that makes us stray and wander.”
[Yajurveda 40:16]8
# Atharvaveda
The Atharvaveda praises God in Book 20, hymn 58 and verse 3:

1. “Dev maha osi”
“God is verily great”
[Atharvaveda 20:58:3]9

# Rigveda

1.

The oldest of all the vedas is Rigveda. It is also the one considered most sacred by the Hindus. The Rigveda states in Book 1, hymn 164 and verse 46:
“Sages (learned Priests) call one God by many names.”
[Rigveda 1:164:46]
2.

The Rigveda gives several different attributes to Almighty God. Many of these are mentioned in Rigveda Book 2 hymn 1.

Among the various attributes of God, one of the beautiful attributes mentioned in the Rigveda Book II hymn 1 verse 3, is Brahma. Brahma means ‘The Creator’. Translated into Arabic it means Khaaliq. Muslims can have no objection if Almighty God is referred to as Khaaliq or ‘Creator’ or Brahma. However if it is said that Brahma is Almighty God who has four heads with each head having a crown, Muslims take strong exception to it.

Describing Almighty God in anthropomorphic terms also goes against the following verse of Yajurveda:

“Na tasya Pratima asti”
“There is no image of Him.”
[Yajurveda 32:3]

Another beautiful attribute of God mentioned in the Rigveda Book II hymn 1 verse 3 is Vishnu. Vishnu means ‘The Sustainer’. Translated into Arabic it means Rabb. Again, Muslims can have no objection if Almighty God is referred to as Rabb or ‘Sustainer’ or Vishnu. But the popular image of.
3.
2.

Vishnu among Hindus, is that of a God who has four arms, with one of the right arms holding the Chakra, i.e. a discus and one of the left arms holding a ‘conch shell’, or riding a bird or reclining on a snake couch. Muslims can never accept any image of God. As mentioned earlier this also goes against Svetasvatara Upanishad Chapter 4 verse 19.

“Na tasya pratima asti”
“There is no likeness of Him”

The following verse from the Rigveda Book 8, hymn 1, verse 1 refer to the Unity and Glory of the Supreme Being:
3.

“Ma cid anyad vi sansata sakhayo ma rishanyata”
“O friends, do not worship anybody but Him, the Divine One. Praise Him alone.”
[Rigveda 8:1:1]10
4.

“Devasya samituk parishtutih”
“Verily, great is the glory of the Divine Creator.”

Brahma Sutra of Hinduism:

The Brahma Sutra of Hinduism is:

“Ekam Brahm, dvitiya naste neh na naste kinchan”

“There is only one God, not the second; not at all, not at all, not in the least bit.”

Thus only a dispassionate study of the Hindu scriptures can help one understand the concept of God in Hinduism.

<<< PLEASE BEAR WITH ME.
I CAN'T MAKE IT CONCISE WITHOUT LEAVING PEOPLE OUT.>>>

(And this may require more concentration and attention span than what is routine here.)

I’m not all that interested in hearing arguments for and against the existence of God (and by “God” I am simply referring to the God definition common in the West where most people think of a god who is a creator of everything and is associated with theism rather than a more impersonal deism. (Yes, we could get into the entire theism/deism debate but let’s keep it focused.) I’m more interested in the proof process.

Just as we approach mathematical proofs in their own formal system sort of ways, I wonder if we have to make different allowances (or not?!) for proof methodology with questions of God. And to invite maximum participation, I’m intentionally dumbing this down a lot (no offense to anyone). I’m also trying to establish more of the “Zen flavor” of the context of the question — the aroma so to speak [yes, that is an easy setup] — by starting with examples;

Example from mathematics: Do imaginary numbers exist? If so, in what sense? If they DO exist, why do mathematics disagree so much about HOW they exist?

Example from law: Does the right to privacy exist in the Constitution? (i.e., U.S.) You can pick a dozen of the top law professors in the country and they will debate for hours simply as to whether it EXISTS (let alone is guaranteed!) in that document! And yet the document is neither overly long nor hard to read. (There in black-and-white, so to speak.) What are the criteria for proving the existence of that constitutional right?

Going back to math, consider Godel’s Theorem’s,and I will boil Godel down to concepts “This is a false statement” (??!) and “Proving that this theorem is provable requires going outside the formal system or you just can’t prove whether it is provable.” [Yes, I know. It stinks rather strongly at this point but a lot of readers have never heard of Godel.]

—-> Could it be that proving/disproving the existence of God is in an entirely different category of proof from what we are familiar? <-----

After all, as in various other fields, the arguments for/against God's existence seem to go in circles and very intelligent people [yes, let's grit our teeth and admit it] strongly disagree on the question, and there's no evident difference in the curriculum vitae of those professors to give us the simplistic cop out that one side is brilliant and logical and the other sides is a bunch of idiots. And if you take some portion of the debate, such as the Cosmological Argument, a thinking person can easily find objections to either side's reasoning -- and as with so many of the arguments, it often comes down to definitions and whose AXIOMS are assumed to be either self-evident. (Surely we can all admit that one man's self-evident axiom is another man's irrational presupposition and a "wild leap to conclusions"! That's probably the biggest problem!) And these are just a few of the many explanations we could offer for why these debates have gone on for centuries without resolutions. (And I will smugly make the claim that if anyone is certain that for "intelligent people" these debates were resolved long ago, I will suggest that you were deprived the benefit of sufficiently brilliant professors with the skills to demonstrate how deadlocked or at least unresolved these debates truly are.)

Yes, we all know that Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is about formal systems and we can't apply the discovery to every other "proof system". But what if we admit that properly dealing with the God-question requires a fundamental quantum leap in "proving proofs" similar to what Godel provided. (Shortly after winning the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, which was centered around Godel, Doug Hofstadter made the comment to a group of us -- and this was at a noisy departmental coffee hour so I wasn't sure if he said it as a prediction or if someone actually had done such a survey -- that a ranking by the country's top scientists as to the most revolutionary discovery of the 20th century would put Godel's Theorem at #1.) Godel's Theorem was one of the great "aah-hah" moments of discovery and nothing was the same ever again.

So at least PART of what I am suggesting is that any serious attempt at proving the existence/non-existence of God is going to recognize that it is in a class of "problems" which represent a whole other category (perhaps one in which proper recognition of the entire universe as its own kind of "formal system" is necessary.) And to me, part of what made the announcement of Godel's Theorem so amazing (a few decades before my birth) is that suddenly some fairly simple "proof problems" which hadn't got much prior consideration as such, suddenly got recognized as "unprovable" and Godel had explained why.

Now that most readers fell asleep long ago, I'll conclude prematurely and abruptly wi
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OLP_FAN, You've reassured me that SOMEONE on this forum has a sense of humor!! (Thanks.)
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ANDREW D, "You are assuming that the only way to prove existence of a superior being is through mathematical proofs." Either you have very poor reading comprehension OR you simply didn't read my question. (Even a broken watch would be correct twice a day.) Whatever. Next!
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At least OLP_fan demonstrated somehow getting to the end of the essay by noticing the humor at the end. (I meant it to function as the old "sign your name on the last page of the blue book for 10 points" to see who read the directions on the exam. Alas......)

Yeremyah (Jeremiah) 23:26-27__
26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own minds;
27 Who devise; plan and scheme, to cause My people to forget My Name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor, just as their fathers have forgotten My Name for Baal; Lord.

Exodus 20:3, KJV__
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

Exodus 20:3 is part of the first commandment of the Ten Commandments. The word which has been translated other in the King James Version is the Hebrew word, acher and means: hinder, those left behind.

Yahweh commanded His people not to WORSHIP THE GODS they left behind in the land of Egypt! The word, other, was deliberately placed in the King James Version to deceive man into thinking YAHWEH is just ANOTHER god.

In the days of Mosheh, the Egyptians worshiped every god known to man. Jewish writings say the names of these gods were written in a book. Jewish writings also say, the Egyptian Priests COULD NOT FIND THE NAME OF YAHWEH in that book!

The word el, which has been translated into English as god, was NEVER A TITLE FOR YAHWEH in the days of Mosheh.

It was only AFTER the Israylites moved into the LAND OF CANAAN that this title EL, was ACCEPTED by the Israylites to identify our Heavenly Father.

In the original and up to the days of Yahshua Ben Nun, this title, El, was NOT APPLIED TO YAHWEH by the followers of Yahweh.

In the days of Mosheh, Yahweh was NEVER known nor identified as EL, ELOHIM or GOD. Yahweh commanded Mosheh in Exodus 20:3 “You shall have NO HINDER GODS (elohim) at all, in opposition against Me.”

Yahweh brought Israyl out of Egypt where ALL THE GODS WERE WORSHIPED and He said to the Children of Israyl, “Leave the gods alone! I am Yahweh your Heavenly Father, your Guide and your Protector! I am ALL you will ever need!”

There is sufficient evidence to prove there were at least three different copiers of the Scriptures used in copying the LAST MANUSCRIPTS. Those writers who were TRUE TO YAHWEH, USED THE NAME OF YAHWEH in their writings exclusively. Those writers who were SNARED BY BAAL, used PAGAN TITLES for Yahweh in their manuscripts!

These three different writings are categorized as the YAHWIST, the ELOHIST and the PRIESTLY.

The ‘J’__Yahwist writer uses the Name of YAHWEH exclusively. It is the OLDEST source of the writings which makes it the COPY OF THE INSPIRED WRITINGS! The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible on the Yahwist Source says:
One of the principal narrative sources or strata of the Pentateuch. The symbol is derived from the personal name of God, Jehovah (or more accurately Yahweh, from hwhy), the use of which is characteristic of this source. It is commonly regarded as Judahite in origin, and somewhat earlier than E (tenth-ninth centuries b.c.).
D.N. Freedman

The Anchor Bible…Genesis, by Doubleday and Co., 1983, pages 37-38, says about the ‘J’ Writer:
A plausible solution may be in sight, nevertheless. Even though J traced back the name Yahweh to the dim past, while E and P attributed the usage to Moses, both views may be justified depending on the point of vantage. The worship of Yahweh was in all likelihood confined at first to a small body of searchers under the aegis of the patriarchs; it was this movement that found a worthy recorder in J. When Moses set out to fashion a nation out of an amorphous conglomerate of sundry ethnic and tribal elements, he had to concentrate on three major features of nationhood: a territorial base, a body of laws, and a distinctive religion. The last was normative in more ways than one; it was necessarily the faith of the same forefathers who had already tied it to the Promised Land, with Yahweh as its fountainhead. To that extent, therefore, Yahweh revealed himself to Moses: and it is this personal revelation that both E and P celebrate. To J, however, who chronicled the progress within the inner circle of the patriarchal pioneers, the personal participation of Yahweh had been the dominant fact from the start.

The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7 pages 680-681 says about this ‘J’ Writer:
According to the documentary hypothesis, the literary sources in the Pentateuch known as the Elohist and the Priestly Document never use the name Yahweh for God until it is revealed to Moses (Ex. 3:13; 6:2, 3): but the Yahwist source uses it from Genesis 2:4 on, thus implying that it was at least as old as Abraham. If the name is really so old, then Exodus 6:2,3 must be understood as meaning that from the time of Moses on, Yahweh was to be the personal name of the God who brought the people of Israel into existence by bringing them out of Egypt and established them as a nation by His covenant with them at Sinai.

The ‘E’__Elohist is derived from the Hebrew word for god-elohim. The use of which is characteristic of this Source and came AFTER the ‘J’ source.
(ELOHIST) el’ o- hist,
i lo-__. One of the principal narrative sources or strata of the Pentateuch. The term is derived from a Hebrew word for “God” (

The 'P'__Priestly source came AFTER THE CAPTIVITY__ just 500 to 600 years before Yahshua was born. This Source was the LATEST OF THE THREE.
The designation of the so-called Priestly source of the Pentateuch. To this source are assigned most of the liturgical, genealogical, legal, and technical materials, connected by a bare minimum of narrative. The Priestly compilation is usually dated after the Captivity, in the sixth or fifth century b.c. See Documents.
D.N. Freedman

for the link, i encourage you to read for better understanding with scripture
http://yahweh.com/booklets/Worship/WhoWorship.htm

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