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Old 05-03-2008, 06:01 PM
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It's rather interesting that you bring "Yahweh" into this context. There's a long history spanning many centuries as to how "Yahweh" became "Jehovah." It is exactly this reason that name spellings aren't important, although not directly related as to the extent of the change in the name of God.

Originally, the Hebrew language didn't have "tittles," i.e., no vowels; the Hebrew language was a consonantal language. Vowels were spoken, but not written. The tittles were added long after the time of Christ, not before--invented by the Massoretic scribes about the latter half of the first millennium A.D. to augment the Hebrew language with a system of vowels.
Wow -- that's a lot of misinformation. I'll be nice and say you are misinformed.

Yahweh is a corruption of God's name Jehovah and is an excellent example of what happens when we let Satan define the parameters of the study of the Biblical text and its history. You have it totally backwards -- it is because we can trust in the jots and tittles being preserved (the very vowel points) that we know the KJV translators had it right with Jehovah, and that God is not named after a pagan god of storms.

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This means the reference to the "jot" and "tittle" is to the "law and prophets" contained in the OT, not the written OT itself. In the light of the ref's immediate context, this makes perfect sense.
Wow -- you really have to ignore what is written to make your points! Christ specifically referred to markings that didn't even amount to complete letters, let alone words, to state the truth of fulfillment. Of course the jots and tittles were a reference to the written Law -- that's what jots and tittles are! You make the whole tenet being taught by Christ of none effect!

Your approach to Scripture reminds me of those who deny the literal six days of creation, and yet don't deny that God instituted the Sabbath.
Exodus 20:10-11 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

When someone denies the literal six days of creation, they deny one of the foundational aspects of the Sabbath for Israel (not us, mind you). You are doing the same thing -- you are denying the truth of the "jots and tittles" and therefor make any teaching based on that foundation void.