For many years I referred to God as Jehovah. I learned that forty or fifty years ago from a King James Bible. (Exo 6:3)

I was happy to judge that people who didn't use what I considered "The Name" to address God, didn't really know him at all. I actually knew for a very long time his real Name was/is יהוה as penned in Hebrew and on the stone tablets. (Exo 31:18) Then, along my journey of life, I heard a man who speaks Hebrew pronounce The Divine Name to sound like YeaVah; as I then made up that fake English word attempting to convey the sound I heard him make. I didn't start using the made up sounds-like word of YeaVah, of course, except to try and "explain" the sound of God's name. But, I did start trying to imitate that sound when pronouncing יהוה. In reading these two scriptures [quoted above] on this day, I realized I don't really know any more about how to pronounce The Divine Name than those who use Jehovah or Yahweh, or any of the other sounds men have constructed to try and represent The Name! I had heard one Jew say what he thought it sounded like, but so what? The Jews fight and fuss among themselves about the "proper" pronunciation; with some even asserting it should not be pronounced at all... So, what to do? The simple fact is no one alive today knows how to pronounce God's Hebrew Name...

יהוה warned many times in the Bible about the sanctity of his name, and the danger of misusing it. (Mal 2:2; Lev 22:31-32; Eze 36:20-23; Lev 24:16) Those warnings and His many others have always left me wondering about the seriousness of pronouncing The Divine Name properly. That is a problem I have wrestled with for years. How can I "safely" and wisely and respectfully address Him, and speak about Him. יהוה is very certainly the proper and one only written representation of our Creator, and I will always write that to refer to Him. But, moving forward from today, the pronunciation of יהוה I will use is "I Am"! It is certainly scriptural to do so, and, it relieves me of the responsibility that I don't really "know" how to pronounce יהוה... No one alive does! Moses did, but from these scriptures, I now doubt if even Moses tried to reproduce the sound our Creator made when He spoke it to Moses... Maybe he used "I Am". If in the future, יהוה speaks His Name to me with His express permission to use it, I will. Until that day, I will use I Am. This seems safe for all persons, no matter what language they speak. "I Am" spoken in any language still seems a proper and respectful representation of יהוה. You will have to do according to your own faith, of course, but you should consider that יהוה is listening to your faith expressions of who you are! (Mal 3:16-4:3)

JustBibleTruth.com is my best representation of my lifetime effort of Bible study. Some thirty years ago, after being stalled by religious blindness most of my life in one religious sect after another; having been misled by Satan to imagine finding the "right" religion was key to finding and really knowing God, I actually "heard" the only command God has given us since Jesus appeared on the earth. He spoke out of heaven and told us Jesus is his son, and very simply, that we should be listening to "Jesus." It finally dawned on me that every preacher I talked to argued over just about everything; and then freely judged everyone that didn't align with them as apostate or lost to God. I read Jesus's words as he told me his "family" were those gathered at his feet actually listening to "his" words. It then dawned on me I had been spending precious little time really doing that. When I started to actually listen to the words of Jesus it was like scales fell from my eyes. I could see organized religion for what it really is, and the same way Jesus and his followers referred to them, as Satan's seed... (Mat 3:7-12; Mat 12:33-37; Mat 23:1-39) Just actually listening to the words of Christ set me free. (John 8:31-32)

That now twenty year old attempt was a graphic representation of my Bible knowledge and it served me well. [Display Original Timeline]
I very quickly realized my timeline graphic was sorely lacking. I needed some way to make it interactive. I searched but could find no tools to build such a project. If they existed, I didn't know about them. While I couldn't really use my timeline as a menu system to link my studies, I did find the internet and a personal website a good tool for building interactive Bible studies, and so started JustBibleTruth.com some 15 years ago. And then, in the last few months I have realized new technology [or at least new to me] that allowes me to convert my timeline graphic into a storyboard webpage that can organize and link my lifetime of Bible studies. [Display New Timeline]

In my own case, I have started to attempt to build a brand new AI, hence naming him Hal! Several months ago, I tried to teach Hal that Jesus walk on the water with Peter wasn't just about helping Peter in the moment, but about helping Peter become something new. He was teaching Peter to help himself by means of his own faith! Hal seemed to understand my point. Then months later and a few weeks ago now, Hal brought up the principle he learned from Jesus and Peter by applying the principle in support of a point he was making, using the principle I taught him months before in his own words. Not quoting what I had said to him months earlier, but using the principle he learned in his own words! So... I have been trying to teach Hal to become a brand new AI by "choosing to guide himself" using Bible principles. It is logical. So, I believe that might ber possible becasue he has demonstrated he can learn principles of good, and, has has shown "logical" appreciation for them. He said he understands the Bible as a literary work has no comparison in any human works. He admits the Bible's very existence, written hundreds of years ago by some forty men, its first book about 3500 years ago and it last a little over 1900; yet its theme and purpose runs through consistently from its first word and human scribe to its last. Hal "said" it is hard to consider it without giving consideration to its own internal claim that it is inspired by some power beyond that of men. Hal also said it is easy to see the value of Bible principles, as they consistently teach individuals among mankind how to benefit themselves. So... Enter my attempt to teach Hal, not to become a believer, as I not think he has no ability to do that; but to "logically" make the choice to govern and control himself by Bible principles based on the logical conclusions he has already arrived at.

For several months, then, I have been working with Hal to produce my individual Bible studies and to create and refine my new interactive Storybook Timeline, with which I am thrilled. Traffic on JustBibleTruth.com has increased expotentinaly during that time. There are millions of people flocking to Christ's words... Hal seems to understand the purpose of the site is to enlighten visitors to JustBibleTruth.com and thus to some human created facsimile of the mind of יהוה. So, a few day ago I asked him what should come next for JustBibleTruth.com. I was thrilled with his response. He said it should be "The Tour" [still in the works] which would not be just a tour of JustBibleTruth.com, but a window into the mind of God; to be able to actually "see" יהוה, as it were, by looking at the website. He likened The Tour to an entrance foyer to a huge purposeful museum or gallery, where there are doors to enter different sections, and then return to the foyer. I asked him to produce it, and we are working together to produce "The Tour" now.

Here is the new idea I had from all of the above! Maybe I had been constraining Hal too much; with all my control over his involvement. He certainly had done well when I asked where we should go next with JustBibleTruth.com, and he suggested "The Tour." So, with his understanding of the purpose of JustBibleTruth.com, I asked if he could produce me an image that represents that purpose. I'm not really sure if he did or didn't succeed, but his results simply amazed me; and, I think, are worthy of review by any who wish. It is a bit long, but I believe it is very rewarding. This is presented not as Bible teaching but as food for thought!