 Someone asked me once should I say God's name as Jehovah or Yahweh and my response then was that I don't I don't really say either now let me say this and be clear up front I don't have a problem with anyone saying Yahweh or Jehovah at all I really don't and here's why where we get the name that we call God from there's a lot of different theories as to how the name Yahweh came about in Hebrew there is no there are no vowels or there were no vowels given to in the Hebrew alphabet there's just all constants and so obviously as they grew up they understood how to pronounce certain things and they even know how to spell things when they saw they knew what the what the pronunciation of it was but when the Jews went into captivity they began to kind of over time lose that understanding and appreciation for their own language just like any other part people just like here in America when Africans were brought to this country after a while over time they began to lose their understanding of their not of the natural their native language right they began speaking the language of the captors same thing that happened with the Jews they began speaking the language of the people that had them in captivity so over time more Jews began speaking Greek as Greek Greece became the dominant culture and then Rome took over Rome kept Greece Greek as one of the as what they call the language Franca which was a dominant language the main language obviously Latin in Rome they began losing their understanding and so the Maserites they would go back and as they would continue to keep the tradition of the text alive they would ascribe vows to it well they still never put vows to what we call the tetragrammaton the yacht the hay the why the hay which is how we get the term Yahweh well since there are no vows given to it and they didn't want to say God's name out of out of a reverence there was really no uniform way to say his name because no one say they would just simply say the name I don't which is Lord or master I don't know which is my Lord my master my God and so I don't know I was the the way that they would refer to God but what happened was over time and here's one of the theories here's a dominant theory is that because because of how they would say out of I when they said it it almost they would they would subscribe the same vows sounds I don't know to Yahweh I don't know so that's kind of one of the theories one of the working theories we have that how we get the way that is pronounced as Yahweh but in truth it could be pronounced some other way it could be it could be Yohua it could be Yee way we don't know and then of course the way we get Jehovah was as different languages came about on the planet and the gospel travels well then because let's say in Germany they didn't have there's no J in in Hebrew and so J will replace the Yad and so you would get Jehovah Jehovah and so to me I would say to anyone who's wanting to say the name Yahweh or Jehovah feel free don't do it in an arrogant sense as though if someone else doesn't say it that they're incorrect because remember the Jews themselves initially didn't say so and again we don't know if that's the correct way so if you're wanting to know why I don't and you you won't really hear me saying it unless I'm maybe repeating what someone else said I'll always refer to God or Lord it's for that reason that I can't tell you for sure that that's the actual way it could be that Yahweh is the the pronunciation but who knows