I must take issue with this part:
You can use Yahaveh if you want, but why slam those who use Yahweh or Jehovah? After all, even "Yahaveh" is only an English version of the Tetragrammaton ( יהוה ), the same as Yahweh or the more Germanic Jehovah. I doubt anyone here speaks paleo-hebrew, so the exact pronunciation isn't really known. I personally don't see anything wrong with any of the three.
actually Yahaveh is not english it is Hebrew, and i will not slam anyone for trying to use Gods name!!
and yes the exact pronunciation is known, YHVH are the Hebrew letters that make up Gods name, for some reason(to confuse) the y is translated to j, and the v to w,(but not always)
the Hebrew language has no vowels in it They use dots and dashes under or over the letters to show how the pronunciation is sounded out! back when the bible was written they did not even use those,
ill explain why i believe Yahaveh is correct.
i have tattooed on my right hand the Hebrew letters YHVH,(also on my chin, just not when this happened) about 3 months after we opened a tat shop i helped build, 3 younger people came into the shop, they started talking in a different language, i knew right away it was Hebrew,( i tried to teach myself Hebrew) i had a huge hangup over Gods name and its pronunciation, i asked these 3 people where they where from? well, well, they where born and raised in Jerusalem, as soon as they said this to me, i showed them my right hand and asked them what it was? they say God, i say "ya i know but how do you say it?" they say well the first thing we are taught as children is to not say Gods name, i looked at them and was like "please tell me" and two of them at the same time say "Yahaveh"
they where thankfully young around there 20s so where less strict in following the Hebrew laws. any way i ask them what where they looking for as far as Tattoos go? you know what they say? we are not looking for tattoos we where driving by and had a overwhelming feeling we had to stop in.
what more can i say?
peace
paul
