Tract Number 11

Titles Not Restricted To One Language


Question:


   Is it not a fact that the Bible translators changed the Creator's original Hebrew names (Elohim, Jehovah, El, Elahh, Elowahh, Bethel, and Tsur) to the names of Baal (God, Lord, etc.)?  And if the Creator's names actually are Elohim, Yahovah et al., and if God, Lord, etc., are the names of the pagan gods, why, then, do we call Him by the latter?


Answer:


   For the sake of correct and consistent understanding in referring to the words under discussion, we call the reader's attention to the self-evident fact that the various Hebrew words termed by the  questioner as "the Creator's original names," all  being designative of some aspect or attribute of  Divine nature or character, are therefore not names, but titles, of the Creator.  Only the name Jehovah  appears to be His Proper Name; therefore we shall  herein treat it separately from the titles.


   In order to find the truth of this important two-fold question, we go back, not merely to the beginning  of the Hebrew nation, but to the very beginning of  all nations; that is, to The Root of the Matter.