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   The claim that the replacement of the Tetragrammaton with Kurios in   
   later manuscripts constitutes a lie or a translation error fails to   
   account for the internal testimony of the New Testament and the divine   
   oversight of the written Word. The primary issue is not the scribal   
   habits of the third or fourth centuries, but the specific, inspired   
   choices made by the New Testament authors in the first century.   
      
   The New Testament writers did not merely stumble upon a corrupted text;   
   they were moved by the Holy Spirit to employ Kurios as the definitive   
   title for Jesus Christ, precisely to identify Him as YHWH. When Paul   
   writes in Romans 10:13 that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord   
   (Kurios) will be saved, he is intentionally quoting Joel 2:32. In the   
   Hebrew text, the name is YHWH. By applying this directly to Jesus, Paul   
   is not falling victim to a later scribal error; he is making a   
   theological declaration under inspiration. If the use of Kurios were a   
   "lie" or a violation of honest translation, then the New Testament   
   itself would be founded upon a lie, as its authors consistently use   
   Kurios to apply YHWH-specific prophecies and attributes to Christ.   
      
   Furthermore, the existence of early fragments like Papyrus Fouad 266,   
   which contain the Tetragrammaton, actually strengthens the argument for   
   Christ's deity. It proves that the New Testament writers were operating   
   in an environment where the distinction between the Hebrew name and the   
   Greek title was known. Despite this, they overwhelmingly chose to   
   identify Jesus as Kurios. In Philippians 2:9–11, Paul states that God   
   has highly exalted Jesus and given Him the name which is above every   
   name. For a monotheistic Jew like Paul, there is only one name above   
   every name: YHWH. By concluding that every tongue must confess that   
   Jesus Christ is Kurios, Paul identifies Jesus with the very name found   
   in Isaiah 45:23.   
      
   The transition from the Tetragrammaton to Kurios in the Septuagint   
   manuscripts was not a conspiracy to hide the truth, but a reflection of   
   the reality that Kurios had become the recognized equivalent for the   
   Divine Name in the Greek-speaking world. The New Testament authors   
   adopted this convention to demonstrate that Jesus is the one true God of   
   the Old Testament manifested in the flesh. To reject the use of Kurios   
   as a reference to YHWH is to reject the inspired method by which the   
   Apostles revealed the identity of Jesus Christ.   
      
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   Have you heard the good news Christ died for our sins (†), and God   
   raised Him from the dead?   
      
   That Christ died for our sins shows we're sinners who deserve the death   
   penalty. That God raised Him from the dead shows Christ's death   
   satisfied God's righteous demands against our sin (Romans 3:25; 1 John   
   2:1-2). This means God can now remain just, while forgiving you of your   
   sins, and saving you from eternal damnation.   
      
   On the basis of Christ's death and resurrection for our sins, call on   
   the name of the Lord to save you: "For 'everyone who calls on the name   
   of the Lord will be saved'" (Romans 10:13, ESV).   
      
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