What does being a 'servant of God' entail to you?

[may]

God itself is a title for a higher being. When asked his proper name God told Moses, tell them that "I AM" has sent me unto you. The proper hebrew for I AM is, Yod, hey, Vaw, Hey. His name though is considered very sacred, the preists wold not dare to speak it and to pronounce it wrong. Therefore they ascribed the title Adoani "Lord" to the true name of God. So that whenever we see GOD or LORD in all capitlas in the Old Testament it's actual reading is Y H V H. Just like any other word, Y H V H, is transliterated into English as Jehovah. Is this wrong? Of course not, we do the same with the name of Jesus. Jesus comes from the greek Iesous, and the Hebrew Yehoshua. A proper translation of of the actual name of Jesus would be Joshua (Yehoshua), however, having transliterated it from greek, we have the name of the Son of God being Jesus (Yeshua).

So Jehovah is not a mistranslation of the proper name of God. It's just a transliteration of the hebrew form of his name into the english form of his name. If we want to be proper, we could say that only Y H V H is his proper name. But we could logically argue the same for Jesus ( proper- Yehoshua) or Peter ( proper Cephas) or John ( proper yoananon) or Mary (proper mariam), the list goes on and on. All names within the Bible including Jehovah are accurate considering English.

A proper pronounciation of Jehovah would rather be Yehovah, not Jehovah ( pronounce J's and Y's in hebrew)

see: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/YHVH/yhvh.html

When reading the proper name of God in the hebrew text, although it is written as Y H V H, adonai will be properly spoken.

here is another link to reading information about Gods name

[FONT=arial, helvetica][SIZE=-1]. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=arial, helvetica][SIZE=-1]God's Name - Its Meaning and Pronunciation - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site[/SIZE][/FONT]

 

[may]

Pardon May? In English we pronounce Y as Y....not as J?
In Slavonic and older languages J is pronounced Y........
So that means Ieosus which can mean "man beast" (i found) isn't his name....
So changing it to a whole new word doesn't mean it changes....
I travel and am Zanda; it stays Zanda.....I do not become Alejandro in Spanish even though i sort of like the sound....as i do not respond to a name that is not my own....

[SIZE=-1]Forms of the divine name in different languages, indicating international acceptance of the form Jehovah[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Awabakal - Yehóa
Bugotu - Jihova
Cantonese - Yehwowah
Danish - Jehova
Dutch - Jehovah
Efik - Jehovah
English - Jehovah
Fijian - Jiova
Finnish - Jehova
French - Jéhovah
Futuna - Ihova
German - Jehova
Hungarian - Jehova
Igbo - Jehova
Italian - Geova
Japanese - Ehoba
Maori - Ihowa
Motu - Iehova
Mwala-Malu - Jihova
Narrinyeri - Jehovah
Nembe - Jihova
Petats - Jihouva
Polish - Jehowa
Portuguese - Jeová
Romanian - Iehova
Samoan - Ieova
Sotho - Jehova
Spanish - Jehová
Swahili - Yehova
Swedish - Jehova
Tahitian - Iehova
Tagalog - Jehova
Tongan - Jihova
Venda - Yehova
Xhosa - uYehova
Yoruba - Jehofah
Zulu - uJehova
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[wizanda]

Thxz, a list of countries like was just saying that use J as Y :angel2:

 

[may]

so getting back to the threads theme , ........what does being a servant of God entail, well we would know his name because
the apostle Peter, in his well-known speech at Pentecost, pointed out a vital part of the Christian message when he quoted the words of the prophet Joel: "Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will get away safe."—Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21.

 

[wizanda]

God has no name, Blaspheming in my eyes is to distinguish a name of something that is every known sound in the reality and beyond....Don't limit God.......

 

[Scuba Pete]

Being a servant is very simple and incredibly hard!

Philippians 2:1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7 but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross! -NIV

 

[cturne]

So interesting that you should ask this question, as I just recently made this my title on RF! To me, being a servant of God means that my life is dedicated to the service of the Lord - everything I do serves God. It's not something that I consciously do, but just by being a Christian I serve God. It's actually hard to explain. I mean, yes, I serve God by being an active member of my church, but everything else I do also serves God, because I am His. I hope that made sense.

 

[athanasius]

God itself is a title for a higher being. When asked his proper name God told Moses, tell them that "I AM" has sent me unto you. The proper hebrew for I AM is, Yod, hey, Vaw, Hey. His name though is considered very sacred, the preists wold not dare to speak it and to pronounce it wrong. Therefore they ascribed the title Adoani "Lord" to the true name of God. So that whenever we see GOD or LORD in all capitlas in the Old Testament it's actual reading is Y H V H. Just like any other word, Y H V H, is transliterated into English as Jehovah. Is this wrong? Of course not, we do the same with the name of Jesus. Jesus comes from the greek Iesous, and the Hebrew Yehoshua. A proper translation of of the actual name of Jesus would be Joshua (Yehoshua), however, having transliterated it from greek, we have the name of the Son of God being Jesus (Yeshua).

So Jehovah is not a mistranslation of the proper name of God. It's just a transliteration of the hebrew form of his name into the english form of his name. If we want to be proper, we could say that only Y H V H is his proper name. But we could logically argue the same for Jesus ( proper- Yehoshua) or Peter ( proper Cephas) or John ( proper yoananon) or Mary (proper mariam), the list goes on and on. All names within the Bible including Jehovah are accurate considering English.

A proper pronounciation of Jehovah would rather be Yehovah, not Jehovah ( pronounce J's and Y's in hebrew)

see: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/YHVH/yhvh.html

When reading the proper name of God in the hebrew text, although it is written as Y H V H, adonai will be properly spoken.

Actually it IS a real mistranslation that many Jewish encyclopedias and Christian scholars admit. The name would most likely be pronounced “Yahweh” from the hebrew YHWH. Since Hebrew has no vowels, some people mistranslated the Name of God into Jehovah by taking the name YHWH and combining it erroneously with the vowels from Adonia.

Here is a example from a Jewish encyclopedia:

YHWH.
Of the names of God in the Old Testament, that which occurs most frequently (6,823 times) is the so-called Tetragrammaton, Yhwh (?), the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel. This name is commonly represented in modern translations by the form "Jehovah," which, however, is a philological impossibility (see Jehovah). ...........A mispronunciation (introduced by Christian theologians, but almost entirely disregarded by the Jews) of the Hebrew "Yhwh," the (ineffable) name of God (the Tetragrammaton or "Shem ha-Meforash"). This pronunciation is grammatically impossible; it arose through pronouncing the vowels of the "ḳere" (marginal reading of the Masorites: = "Adonay") with the consonants of the "ketib" (text-reading: = "Yhwh")—"Adonay" (the Lord) being substituted with one exception wherever Yhwh occurs in the Biblical and liturgical books. "Adonay" presents the vowels "shewa" (the composite under the guttural א becomes simple under the &#1497, "ḥolem," and "ḳameẓ," and these give the reading (= "Jehovah"). Sometimes, when the two names and occur together, the former is pointed with "ḥatef segol" () under the י —thus, (="Jehovah")—to indicate that in this combination it is to be pronounced "Elohim" (). These substitutions of "Adonay"and "Elohim" for Yhwh were devised to avoid the profanation of the Ineffable Name (hence is also written , or even , and read "ha-Shem" = "the Name ").

The reading "Jehovah" is a comparatively recent invention.

See the more articles on this article at :
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=52&letter=N

The ironic thing is that the Jehovhas Witness main claim to fame is that they claim to know and have resored Gods name, but the truth is they can't even pronounce it right.

 

[may]

God has no name, Blaspheming in my eyes is to distinguish a name of something that is every known sound in the reality and beyond....Don't limit God.......

so what does his name mean ............HE CAUSES TO BECOME, and he will prove to be what he will prove to be .
The Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Volume 1, page 572) states the following: "A study of the word ‘name’ in the O[ld] T[estament] reveals how much it means in Hebrew. The name is no mere label, but is significant of the real personality of him to whom it belongs."
The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (Volume 2, page 649) says: "One of the most fundamental and essential features of the biblical revelation is the fact that God is not without a name: he has a personal name, by which he can, and is to be, invoked." Jesus certainly had that name in mind when he taught his followers to pray: "Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified."—Matthew 6:9.

 

[may]

being a servant of God means being ready ,
On this account YOU too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that YOU do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming. matthew 24;44

 

[Heneni]

God daily bring us blessings and that which we need/require for our good. In that way god is a servant, and has a servant heart himself.

Being a servant to your fellow brother or sister in christ, raises you up in honor, being the main peanut in the packed leaves those below you behind. Doing what is going to benefit your brother or sister, means you serve them, and they inturn are your friends.

When god serves us with spiritual food and spiritual blessings he does that because he considers us to be his friends. Which is why the bible says that the greatest among you are the servants! God blesses us with good so that we inturn can bless our friends in christ.

But can we really serve god? Is there anything that he would require from us as a necessity, or does he lack in anything that requires us to bring this for him?

I think the only true servant to a child of god is god himself, setting the example for what he requires us to do for our fellow brothers and sisters in christ. The one that does not lack should serve the one that does. That is not how the world opperates! In the world those that lack nothing in earthly comforts are the ones that are served by servants.

What the world thinks is smart god considers to be foolishness.


Heneni

 

[Scuba Pete]

But can we really serve god? Is there anything that he would require from us as a necessity, or does he lack in anything that requires us to bring this for him?

Of course we can serve God: just serve his brothers and sisters!

Matthew 25:37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' 40 "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' NIV

Then we see this from John:


I John 3:11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 19 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence 20 whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. NIV

If you seek to serve God, then look no further than the person next to you. Serve them and you will be serving God.