Is Jehovah God's True Name?

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In the film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the titled hero must make it past three riddles in order to claim the treasure of the

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Holy Grail, the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. In the second of those riddles, Indiana must correctly spell

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God's true name by stepping on tiles for each letter. One wrong step and he'll fall to his doom.

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He says that God's true name is Jehovah. Now in the movie, the cave temple holding the grail had been around for almost a thousand years, but according to history, the name

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Jehovah has been around only about half that time. Jehovah is the Germanic spelling of Yahweh, known as the

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Tetragrammaton or the Hebrew name for God, represented by the letters YHWH with no vowels.

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In the year 1520, a monk by the name of Peter Galatinus took the vowels from the word Adonai, another name for God, and he put them in between the consonants for Yahweh.

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The German J is a lot like the English Y, and the W is more like a V sound, so what resulted was the name

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Jehovah. William Tyndale made it famous when he printed the name in his translation of the Bible, and it was later used in the

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King James Bible as well. Now there's nothing wrong with calling God Jehovah, but knowing the origin of the name means we can be skeptical of anyone claiming it's

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God's true name. The Jehovah's Witnesses attribute the name to God, the Mormons say it's Jesus' real name according to their prophet

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Joseph Smith, and some apostolics and charismatics will claim to have been called on by Jehovah.

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What's more important than knowing how to correctly pronounce the name of God is to know His Son, Jesus Christ. Only through Jesus do we have access to the

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Father and right standing with God. His is the name above every name, when we understand the text.