Errors
The errors found within the teachings of the Sacred Name movement are numerous.
These articles document the five most significant errors of their ideology.
THE ORIGINAL PRONUNCIATION OF THE TETRAGRAMMATON CAN BE DETERMINED WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY.
Many sacred name teachers believe and very vocally teach that unless one uses the Hebrew name and only the Hebrew name for God, he or she will be eternally damned. It should be noted that not all sacred name teachers are so dogmatic.
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- Gary Mink
THE BIBLE, AS WE HAVE IT, IS A CORRUPTED DOCUMENT, AND SACRED NAME TEACHERS ARE ABLE TO REPAIR IT.
A Bible revision made by any religious group is certainly one of the more interesting aspects for the study of that movement. Mormons have their Holy Scriptures, Inspired Version made by Joseph Smith. Jehovah's Witnesses have The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, a Watch Tower publication.
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- Gary Mink
THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN HEBREW
One of the most absurd of the claims made by sacred name movement teachers is that the complete New Testament was originally written in the Hebrew language. Nothing could be further from the truth. This claim is made without so much as a shred of empirical evidence. Even so, such an untenable position is thrust upon these teachers as necessary to support the primary doctrine of the movement.
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- Gary Mink
JESUS SPOKE THE NAME YAHWEH
One of the keystone doctrines of the sacred name movement is that our Savior preached and taught the name Yahweh to the Jewish people of his time. One or another sacred name group may say Jesus taught one or another of the numerous possible English transliterations of YHWH. Numbers of sacred name people believe the primary mission of Jesus was bringing the name Yahweh to the world.
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- Gary Mink
THE NAME JESUS ETYMOLOGICALLY DERIVES FROM THE NAME ZEUS.
A long-held and regularly used false teaching among more than half of sacred name movement assemblies and individuals is that the Greek word for Jesus means son of Zeus or has a meaning otherwise connected with or derived from the word Zeus. There are a number of variations on this fanciful teaching, a favorite being that Jesus means Healing Zeus. It is especially sad to see sacred name converts, who have no idea of the source of their information, promoting this error.
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- Gary Mink