The Name of the Son and the Traditions of Men, Which Makes Void the Revelations of God

Rev. Steve Marlowe

Greetings to My Brothers:

The name given to the Son is YAHSHUA.  The Son was never in His lifetime called Jesus, Iesus, or Iesous, as these names came centuries later.  YAHSHUA means “I AM Salvation”, as described in Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” In Psalm 83:18, “That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord {YAH}, arethe Most High over all the earth.”  LORD does not represent the euphonious name Jehovah.  First, the LORD represents YHWH, there is no J sound in Hebrew.  Second, the next letter is an A, not an E, and the next letter is a H, therefore, not Jeh, but YAH, as in Halleluyah, as in “Praise YAH.”  Scholars know that the name Jehovah is not the name of the God of the Bible.  “Judging from the Greek transcriptions of the sacred name, YHWH ought to be pronounced YAHWEH.  The pronunciation Jehovah was unknown in ancient Jewish circles, and is based upon a later misunderstanding of the scribal practice of using the vowels of the word Adonai (also Elohim, and Eloah) with the consonants of YHWH” (the New Catholic Encyclopedia, p. 1065, 1967).  “The form Jehovah is of late medieval origin; it is a combination of the consonants of the Divine Name and the vowels and the vowels attached to it by the Masoretes but belonging to an entirely different word.  The sound of Y is represented by J and the sound of W by V, as in Latin.  The word ‘Jehovah’ does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew” (Preface to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, pp. 6-7).

The history of the letter J, started with Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478 – 1550), who was an Italian, among other things, a grammarian and a linguist.  In his 1524 essay, in which he proposed to reform Italian by adding the following letters to distinguish sounds of the spoken language: The idea was taken up for "j" and "v", which brought to the modern distinction U vs. Vand I vs. J, which eventually caught up also for other European languages, which generally spells the sound [j] with an I.  Trissino was the first to promote the J in 1524.  The letter J was adopted by the French and then the English by the year 1633.  This is why we do not have the use of the letter J in the 1611 King James Version of the Bible, as the name of Christ was spelled Iesus, without the J.   

The hybrid name Jehovah has a sinister meaning, as Je-hovah, or specifically hovah, means “ruin, mischief, and calamity” (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words #1942, #1943).  Jehovah, or Yehovah, a euphonious name, is a name never revealed by God!  Stop using the counterfeit name Jehovah!  No wonder many Bible translations have removed this euphonious name, Jehovah.  Also, the changes to the English alphabet caused the counterfeit name “Jesus.” 

Those who support the name Jehovah, or Yehovah, can only find Medieval sources, such as the Aleppo Codex, which is a medieval-bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. The codex was written in the city of Tiberias in the tenth century CE (circa 920 CE), and together with the Leningrad Codex, which is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew.  In publishing, a colophon is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book, which places the Leningrad Codex having been published in Cairo circa AD 1008 (or possibly 1009), and therefore in  Medieval Times.  The Jews added vowels to the Tetragrammaton {YHWH}, the consonants of God’s name, as early as the Tenth century to remind the readers in the synagogues not to pronounce the name of God but to say, “Adonai,” instead. 

False names never revealed by God have entered into Christianity, and false doctrines presented by man have also entered Christianity, which were never been revealed by God.  The counterfeit names of Jehovah and Jesus are the subject of how they relate to each other.  When the Son of God was given all things at the fall of Lucifer, Satan.  The title God was given to Him in that He had all Power, all Dominion, all Majesty, and all Glory over creation.  Christ’s God and Father having nothing to do with sin gave all things to the Son, who is our Christ.  Thus making the Son of God, our only God until all things are fulfilled.  This is what the early church believed:  “But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.  For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ, all shall be made alive.  But each one in his own order: Christ the first fruits, afterward those who areChrist’s at His coming.  Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.  For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.  The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.  For ‘He has put all things under His feet.’ But when He says ‘all things are put under Him,’ it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted.  Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all. (1 Corinthians 15:20-28).  Therefore, the centrality of Christ in the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, is plainly seen.  For it was the Son of God, as LORD, who claimed to be our only God, for Christ alone is our ‘Rock’ (Isaiah 44:6-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4).  By the 4th century CE, the Church lost its way.  The Jews, being the strict monotheists that they had become, accused the Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, of worshipping two gods, as the church has always acknowledged Christ’s Divinity.

The church was convinced that there was only one God by the Hebrew Scriptures, which later became known as the Old Testament. Failing to understand the centrality of Christ in the Bible, the church developed in the 4th century the concept of the Triune God without one “Thus says the LORD, I am Triune.”  There is no explicit evidence in the Bible of a Triune God.  It is only by the implication of men, who ended up defining God in their councils of arguing, and bickering, men under the auspicious oversight of the emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great.  Thus making, by a council of men, the Father and the Son the same God.  Centuries later, Martin Luther in a sermon acknowledged this:  “It is indeed true that the name ‘Trinity’ is nowhere to be found in the Holy Scriptures, but has been conceived and invented by man” (The Sermons of Martin Luther, John Lenker, editor, Vol. 3, p. 406).  Historian H.G. Wells stated, “There is no evidence that the apostles…ever heard of the Trinity–at any rate from him” [that is Christ] (The Outline of History, Vol. 2, p. 499).  “Many doctrines are accepted by evangelicals as being clearly taught in the Scripture for which there are no proof texts.  The doctrine of the Trinity furnishes the best example of this.  It is fair to say that the Bible does not teach the doctrine of the Trinity… In fact, there is not even one proof text, if by proof text we mean a verse or passage that ‘clearly’ states that there is one God who exists in three persons” (Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology, p. 89).     

The Father and God of our God YAHSHUA, who is known as the YHWH in the Old Testament, gave all things to the Son, which is why He is our only one God, to the glory of God the Father.  Christ revealed Himself to the Hebrews as their only God, as stated in Deuteronomy 6:4, “Hear, O Israel: ’The Lord our God, the Lord is one!’” This Shema is for Christ alone, for He is the LORD our God.  When sin and death are no more, He, the Son of God, our sole God, will turn all things over to the Father, and He will be our all in all God; but until then, YAHSHUA is our only God, as the Father gave Him all things (Mathew 11:37).  The Father, who has nothing to do with sin, nor can sin be in His presence, gave all things to the Son of God to fulfill all things, and once completed, the Son will return all things made new, without sin and death.  This establishes the truth that the Father is greater than our Savior, YAHSHUA, just as the Son said (John 14:28).  Therefore, the Son of God has His own ‘will’ separate from the Father, as demonstrated in the garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:42).  Therefore, the doctrine of the Trinity is not a teaching of Christ.  “The Trinitarian Dogma is in the last analysis a late 4th-century invention… The formation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century” (see “Trinity,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967).

False claims about the founding fathers of Christianity, that they believed in the Trinity, as three Persons one God.  Trinitarians cite:

A.D. 96……Clement, third Bishop of Rome (the Pope)

A.D. 100…The Didache, which was later tampered with.

A.D. 90……Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Syria

A.D. 155…Justin Martyr, an early Christian writer

A.D. 168…Theophilus, the sixth Bishop of Antioch, Syria

A.D. 177…Athenagoras, theologian

A.D. 180…Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, France

A.D. 197…Tertullian, an early church leader

A.D. 264…Gregory Thaumaturgus, early church leader

Although the above-mentioned the term Trinitas, they did not mean to say, “Three Persons in one God,” nor would they go against Christ’s admission that the Father was greater than He.  A professor of Theology at the University of Bern, Switzerland, Martin Werner observed: “Wherever in the New Testament the relationship of (Christ) to God, the Father, is brought into consideration, whether with reference to His appearance as a man or His Messianic status, it is conceived of and represented categorically as subordination.”  All the leaders of the early church were Subordinationists until the 4th century.  Subordinationism teaches that the Son is subordinate to the Father, not only in submission and role but with actual subordination, according to Christ’s confession: “The Father is greater than I.”  (Papandrea, James Leonard, Reading the Early Church Fathers: From the Didache to Nicaea). It was condemned as heretical in the Second Council of Constantinople in 381 AD (Giles, Kevin, The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology). 

In the final analysis, much of the Theology from the 4th century is tainted with the traditions of men, and therefore, not of the revelation of God.  “Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, ‘Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders…?’ He answered and said to them, ‘Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:  This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.  And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’  For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men…” (Mark 7:5-8).  It is true, that the traditions of men make void the revelations of God.

The Nazarean Ministry of YAHSHUA

Evangelists Steve Marlowe & Noah Castaneda