Examination of the Word and of His Sacred Name may plant seeds for faith

As with many spiritual issues, consideration of them can easily activate intellect for an analysis of matters, and this is a very rightful process. Indeed, these writings are here to provide perspectives and to get the thought process rolling with respect to faith, beliefs, religions, Scripture, and more. Previously, it was opined that “However they come to it, the trend of faithless can be seen to be increasing and although we can easily determine many of the causants, not many clear or effective means to turn the tide for faith are arising as effortlessly.” One reader of that article provided perspective for us that “Jesus tells us where FAITH is and it isn't in a religion. The FAITH that he talks about is within ourselves. He says [that] we can move mountains with that faith if we believe in ourselves. He never mentions in any of his parables on FAITH that is in [an] outside source.” Although the posture of the reader’s comment may have suggested that the article’s opinion and her own perspective were not in accord, to the extent that religion is not requisite to faith, they were in spirit agreeable. The article actually theorizes that an examination of the Word (and other practices) may plant seeds for faith.

Certainly we see that indeed extrinsic influence has an affectation on us with respect to faith, according to Scripture. Messiah avowed that unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders, you will not believe. So for us all, but especially of course for the faithless, let us not cease to seek the signs, and certainly not to wonder, for it is by the senses bestowed us by the Elohim that we might plant seeds of faith and increase it.

Some of you may have noticed that the scriptural image depicted therewith the previous article presented a usage for reference to the Creator which is not common usage. The use of YHWH is an abbreviated form of the formal or sacred name Yahuweh, also sometime and more commonly shortened in writing as Yahweh. By any of these written forms, pronunciation of the sacred name is virtually transposable as the consonants Y, H, W, and H enunciate fluidly to pronounce the name even absent the vowels A, U, or E. Neither that this column launched on the subject of diminishing faith, nor that its flagship article included photographic image presenting Scriptural text using sacred names for our Creator are coincidental. Many of the faithless have come to stray or to become alienated from the Spirit of the Word because of disconfidence in Scriptural translations, and other putative inaccuracies. As we strive together in these columns to examine the Word, any who may feel more invited by the inclusion of sacred name usage will be welcomed aside all who choose to use modern reference. So acknowledged is the perspective that sanctity is preserved for those who would rely upon the Creator’s sacred name in accordance with Scripture we consider that He came to His own, and His own people did not accept Him. But to as many as did accept Him, He gave the right to be Yahuweh’s children, to those who believed in His Name.