Page 127 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

The NIV Study Bible merely gives the following statement regarding their practice of name
substitution:

In regard to the divine name YHWH, commonly referred to as the tetragrammaton, the translators
adopted the device used in most English versions of rendering that name as “LORD” in capital
letters to distinguish it from Adonai, another Hebrew word rendered “Lord”, for which small letters
are used.
(NIV Study Bible © 1985 by The Zondervan Corporation)

A similar statement is made by the translators of the New Living Translation:

We have rendered the tetragrammaton (YHWH) consistently as “the LORD,” utilizing a form with
small capital letters that is common among English translations.
(New Living Translation © 1996 by Tyndale House Charitable Trust)

Again, there is no divine command cited to justify this practice. It is merely stated that “the device
used in most English versions” has been followed, or that the editors have utilized a form “that is
common among English translations.” When one undertakes such an important labor as producing
a copy of the holy scriptures to be read by millions of people, one should approach the labor with the
greatest of integrity seeking to walk in strict obedience to the revealed mind of the Father. Making
profound decisions that result in altering the scriptures just because other men have done so is no
justification at all. It is the height of audacity to then turn around and say that using the divine name,
as recorded by holy men and prophets at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is totally inappropriate for
the universal Christian faith. What is truly totally inappropriate is making wholesale changes to the
scriptures and basing such decisions on tradition and the devices of men.
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Brothers and sisters, I can think of no more sinister act that has been perpetrated by Satan upon the
people of Yahweh than to remove all memory and mention of the name of their God from their minds
and lips. In their times of apostasy the Hebrew people were very quick to declare the names of the
Baals and Asherim which they worshiped. Yet with great cunning Satan removed from the Israelites
the worship and memory of the name of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, known unto these
men and unto Moses as Yahweh.

We are told that as early as the grandson of Adam, the son of Seth whose name was Enos, that men
began to call upon the name of Yahweh.

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call
upon the name of Yahweh.

Look up this passage in any of the popular English translations and this profound truth is obscured,
for the Hebrew Tetragrammaton has been unfaithfully rendered as “Lord” instead of “Yahweh.” Noah
knew the name of Yahweh, and in this name He offered sacrifice and prayed.

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh...