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You’re welcome. About the name sounding like breath; I found that at
The Calling / YHWH.com. The site also had an earlier version with some pages that didn’t get re-posted to the new version:
Old Version of the Site. I found the site after a web search; I thought that a verse in
Genesis 11, specifically Genesis 11:6-7, was strange; God says “Let
us go down…” in it. I then web searched “God is not God’s name” and I found an article titled
God is not God’s Name at YHWH.com. The page linked is to the old site.
I later became curious of Ancient Hebrew, and I did another web search, when I found Jeff Benner’s
Ancient Hebrew Research Center (AHRC.) I don’t want to take quite everything he posts seriously, without researching it, though. Else, I have to say “it may be this way, or that way.”
I have to wonder just how far the 3rd commandment, “Taking the name of YHWH in vain” goes. Does “Taking the name in vain” (making it of no effect, if I understand properly) include making the name obscure? Not that the Jews seem to do that; they do have the name in their texts and synagogues, but they don’t try to
say it, and they don’t want it to be destroyed. This might be beneficial in the long run, though, because there’s a possibility that the “Dead Sea Scrolls” only exist now because they were in a burial place for old scrolls. Documentaries don’t often seem to say that, (they think the scrolls were buried in a hurry due to attacking invaders,) but it’s still a possibliity.
If the name is obscure in the minds of people, I’d think that can be more sinful than the name being obliterated on a piece of paper. However, that’s more a Modern Christian problem than a Jewish one, since the Jews
do see the name and know it in their carefully preserved texts (though they don’t pronounce it.) But for Christianity, I can’t imagine that the name being obscured
over 6,500 times in the majority of millions of Bibles helps matters for people. I only found the name because of what I already explained earlier, due to thinking of Genesis 11:6-7.
There’s still more that I’d like to say in detail, but I’ll stop there for the time being. The next reply should be more about God being more than one person, while being one person; more than one individual, but all united. It’ll also talk about the “Angels,” which is a Greek word for “Messenger.” Not “Winged Angel of God,” but just “Messenger.”