Why have so many Bible Translations deleted God's personal name approx 7 thousand times from their versions?

Answer 1

Of course, ultimately, each Bible Translation Committee would need to provide their own 'reason', or 'lack of valid reason'. No doubt they gave much thought to it. They are responsible before Jehovah God for their deeds regarding suppression of His most holy name. Certainly Jehovah God had no hand in it; because originally in the ancient manuscripts, Jehovah revealed his personal name to human-kind in the Hebrew language, which was the language of the Israelites back then. (Jehovah God did not have The Bible written in English back then.)

Perhaps the following quotes would shed light on their 'reason or lack of valid reason'.

1) It was a MISTAKE:

· "...the suppression of The Name (Jehovah) has entailed upon the reader, and especially upon the hearer, irreparable loss... its suppression was a MISTAKE..." -- Rotherham, 1, Ch. IV, 22-29

· "...the most common "ERROR" made by most translators in the last 3500 years...is their elimination of heaven's revealed Name of the Most High, Yahweh (Jehovah)" - A. B. Traina; in the Preface of the Holy Name Bible

· "The substitution of the word "Lord" is most unhappy; for...it in NO WAY represents the meaning of the sacred name (Jehovah)..." - The 1872 edition of Smith's Bible Dictionary

2) In the interest of the pagan-originated Trinity Doctrine:

· "In the first two centuries nearly all the various readings of the New Testament came into existence, the majority of them by deliberate alteration of the text . . . in the interests of (the trinity) dogma . . ." -(the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics; The Bible in the Church.)

· "Codex B (Vaticanus)...was altered by a later hand in more than two thousand places. Eusebius, therefore, is not without grounds for accusing the adherents of . . . . the newly-risen doctrine of the trinity of falsifying the Bible . . ." -(Fraternal Visitor 1924, p. 148; translated from Christadelphian Monatshefte).

· The removal of the Tetragrammaton (Jehovah) from the New Testament and its replacement with the surrogates KYRIOS and THEOS blurred the original distinction between the Lord God and the Lord Christ, and in many passages made it impossible which one was meant. As time went on...it was often impossible to distinguish between them. Thus it may be that the removal of the Tetragrammaton (Jehovah) contributed significantly to the later . . . Trinity " - (George Howard, Bible Scholar; The Name of God in the New Testament, BAR 4.1 (March 1978), pg 15)

3) Money / Money / Money:

While others will not admit it publically, there is one who has spoken honestly regarding this.

· When one member of the NIV Translation Committee was asked about this, Edwin H. Palmer, Th.D., Executive Secretary for the NIV's committee wrote : "Here is why we did not: You are right - that Jehovah is a distinctive name for God and ideally we should have used it. But we put 2 1/4 million dollars into this translation and a sure way of throwing that down the drain is to translate, for example, Psalm 23 as, 'Yahweh (Jehovah) is my shepherd.' Immediately, we would have translated for nothing. Nobody would have used it (or purchased it). Oh, maybe you and a handful [of] others. But a Christian has to be also wise and practical. We are the victims of 350 years of the King James tradition. It is far better to get two million to read it-that is how many have bought it to date-and to follow the King James, than to have two thousand buy it and have the correct translation of Yahweh(Jehovah) . . . It was a hard decision, and many of our translators agree with you." - The Reason NIV removed Jehovah's Name Edwin H. Palmer, Th.D., Executive Secretary for the NIV's committee.

• "The situation today, where many translations . . . exists largely because of the amount of money to be gained . . ." -(The Preservation of the Bible By Faithful Churches) --By Charles V. Turner

Now there you have it, like it or not; the truth be told.

Can we really trust the integrity of those translations in other matters of translation, when they made this one substantial error regarding the most holy name of God these 6,800 times.