The Holy Name of God

--------------------------- Exodus 3:15 - And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation. -- Green's Literal. (This study has not yet been updated in formatting and links. Formatting may not be consistent, and links may not work. Some wording needs to be edited for greater accuracy and clarity.)  In the past century there has been a controversy as to why the Holy Name does not appear in the Christian Scriptures, commonly called the New Testament. On one side, we have the "Jehovah's Witnesses" and various "Sacred Name" groups as well as many others that claim that the New Testament writers did use the Holy Name, but that it was changed to other words and all manuscripts that contained the name were destroyed. The opposite camp claims that ...

Did Jesus change God's Holy Name (Jehovah, Yahweh) to "Father"? There is no scriptural evidence that he did so. He did refer to his God as "Father" and instructed his followers to do so. But this does not mean that he had changed God's name to "Father", nor does it mean that he never used God's Holy Name. For instance, let us look at Matthew 4:7: Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’” — Matthew 4:7, World English Bible translation (WEB). Here Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 6:16, which contains God's Holy Name: “You shall not test Jehovah your God.” (WEB) Did Jesus change God's Holy Name to "Father" in Matthew 4:7? No. Nevertheless, it is evident that someone has replaced the Holy Name here in the Greek with a form of the word often transliterated as "Kurios", thus, in effect, changing the Holy Name to Kurios (Lord — the Greek is without the definite article as it appears i...