Jehovah's Witnesses With these interpretations, Jehovah's Witnesses' publications have made various predictions about world events they believe were prophesied in the Bible. Failed predictions have led to the alteration or abandonment of some doctrines. Some failed predictions had been presented as "beyond doubt" or "approved by God". The Watch Tower Society rejects accusations that it is a false prophet, stating that its interpretations are not inspired or infallible, and that it has not claimed its predictions were "the words of Jehovah." Chryssides has suggested that with the exception of statements about 1914, 1925 and 1975, the changing views and dates of the
Jehovah are used instead, generally indicating that the corresponding Hebrew is Yahweh or YHWH. Most scholars believe "Jehovah" (also transliterated as "Yehowah") to be a hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters "JHVH" with the vowels of "Adonai". Some hold that there is evidence that a form of the Tetragrammaton similar to "Jehovah" may have been in use in Semitic and Greek phonetic texts and artifacts from Late Antiquity. Others say that it is the pronunciation "Yahweh" that is testified in both Christian and pagan texts of the early Christian era. Karaite Jews, as proponents of the rendering "Jehovah", state