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God's name is represented by the Tetragrammaton (יהוה): four consonant letters translated from Hebrew into English as YHWH or JHVH. This is known as the Divine Name. In ancient Hebrew, the Tetragrammaton was not written with vowels. When ancient Hebrew was in everyday use, readers uttered the appropriate vowels. About a thousand years after the Hebrew Scriptures were completed, Jewish scholars developed a system of pronunciation points, or signs, by which to indicate what vowels to use when reading Hebrew. However, by that time, many Jews had the superstitious idea that it was wrong to say God’s personal name out loud, so they used substitute expressions. Thus, it seems that when they copied the Tetragrammaton, they combined the vowels for the substitute expressions with the four consonants representing the divine name. Therefore, the manuscripts with those vowel points are inaccurate for determining how the name of God was actually and originally pronounced in Hebrew.


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In the 16th century, William Tyndale set out to translate the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English, declaring to a well-educated man: “If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou doest.” Tyndale had to flee from England to the European continent to translate and print his translation. Despite a campaign by the clergy to burn publicly all the Bibles that they could find, copies began to circulate in great numbers. Eventually, Tyndale was betrayed and was strangled and burned at the stake, but his Bible translation lived on. It was consulted extensively in the preparation of the widely distributed King James version of the Bible (2 Timothy 2:9).


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The Ruler of the World (John 12:31) controls, dominates, and has a monopoly on all channels of spiritism, even within World religions. Therefore, people who engage in spiritism, come into contact with highly intelligent beings who are Adversaries of God. They serve to deceive and mislead people often guising themselves as Angelic guides, dead loved ones, in some cases—extraterrestrials, and even "God" himself (2 Cor. 11:14). For our protection, The Bible condemns spiritism and warns us to keep free from everything connected with it (Galatians 5:19-21).


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All of God’s works are perfect. The Bible tells us that long before God formed the earth, He created millions of spirit creatures, or angels (Job 38:4, 7; Revelation 5:11). Each of these angels were endowed with free will—the ability to choose between right and wrong. Some of them chose to rebel against God, and they abandoned their position in heaven to cause trouble on the earth. As a consequence, the earth became “filled with violence” (Genesis 6:2-5, 11; Jude 6). About 96 CE, the apostle John wrote about how these angels of adversary wield great influence over the earth, misleading millions of people (Revelation 12:9). They exploit mankind’s natural curiosity about the future (1 Samuel 28:5, 7; 1 Timothy 4:1). Although some supernatural powers to help (2 Corinthians 11:14), in reality, the adversary angels are attempting to blind people’s minds to the truth about God, his name, and who He is (2 Corinthians 4:4). They do not bear witness to God's name. Like all angels, mankind was also created to be capable of obeying God perfectly (Deuteronomy 32:4, 5). God created all intelligent beings with the freedom to choose either doing good or doing evil. That freedom gives us a way to express love for God (James 1:13-15; 1 John 5:3).


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In 1382, the English translation later known as the Wycliffe Bible was produced. It quickly gained popularity among followers of Wycliffe. Desiring to get God’s Word into the mind and heart of ordinary people, itinerant preachers known as the Lollards, traveled on foot from village to village all over England. The Lollards read the Bible to people and gave them handwritten copies of parts of it. Their work made the Bible very popular again. However, the clergy hated Wycliffe, his Bible, and his followers. They persecuted the Lollards and destroyed all the Wycliffe Bibles they could find. Even though Wycliffe had already died, the clergy declared him a heretic, or an enemy of the Church. They dug up his bones, burned them, and threw the ashes into the river Swift. But many people wanted to read and understand God’s Word, and the Church could not stop this. In the hundreds of years that followed, people in Europe and other parts of the world began to translate and print the Bible in languages that many could understand


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