He is Sufficient » Elshaddai http://heissufficient.com worshiping in a wilderness of words Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:31:50 +0000 en hourly 1 Random thought on the Tetragrammaton issue http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/20/random-thought-on-the-tetragrammaton-issue/ http://heissufficient.com/2008/08/20/random-thought-on-the-tetragrammaton-issue/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:44:17 +0000 ElShaddai Edwards http://heissufficient.net/?p=822 Iyov has been following the recent Vatican directive reminding episcopal conferences “to remove all vocalizations of the Tetragrammaton” out of respect to Jews and Jewish tradition. He quotes from a recent letter by Bishop Serratelli (chair of the US Bishop’s Committee on Divine Worship:

“the name of almighty God expressed by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton and rendered in Latin by the word Dominus, is to be rendered into any given vernacular by a word equivalent in meaning.”

At the risk of being flippant, and with an extra helping of humility before our Creator, I wonder if I should continue to go by “ElShaddai” or if I should switch to the words equivalent in meaning, “God Almighty”.

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