Our Awesome and Personal God: Recovering YHWH
There is something remarkable hidden in plain sight throughout much of the Old Testament. God has a name. Not merely a description. Not merely a title. Not merely a position of authority. A name. In the Hebrew Scriptures, that name appears over six thousand times as four Hebrew consonants: יהוה, commonly represented in English as YHWH and frequently rendered Yahweh . Yet most Christians can read the entire Old Testament without encountering Yahweh even once. Instead, wherever YHWH appears, most English translations print LORD , usually in small capital letters. There are understandable historical reasons for this. But something can be understandable and still have harmful consequences. This article asks a simple question: What might we have lost when the personal name God repeatedly gave his people became a title instead? The God Who Gave Us His Name The Bible uses well over 100 names, titles, attributes, and descriptions for God, revealing different aspects of who He is, what He does...