Why is Jesus called Jesus instead of Yeshua or Joshua?
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Tradition.  The translation from the original Greek to Latin and then to English came up with "Jesus."  Even the newer translations which go back to the oldest preserved texts still seem to use the name, even when the translators know better.\nHow do expect this to change if you have to tell millions of worshipers that they have been mispronouncing the name for centuries?  They will always come up with some lame excuse to explain their own ignorance about the topic.
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It is true that the Almighty did not say, "Listen, thousands of years from now when a new language called English comes along, they can pronounce my name as 'Jehovah' and that's fine."\n\nInstead, like with any and every personal name, different languages TRANSLATE personal names to fit their lingual tendencies. George becomes "Hor-hey" in Spanish or "Gay-org" in German and no one gets upset.\n\nAs another answer mentions, the same people who get all upset about translating the Hebrew name 'Yahweh' or 'Yehowah' into English as 'Jehovah' have absolutely no such qualms about translating the Hebrew name 'Yeshua' into English as 'Jesus'!\n\nIf you don't like the English translation, no one is telling you that you can't use the Hebrew original of the divine name.
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Jesus in greek is Lesous with was translated in Lesus in latin then Jesus in English did you know there is no J, or j sound in the Hebrew language. When the King James bible was translated in English in 1611 Jesus and Jehovah name wasn't in there because the J wasn't in use then, J is the last letter added to the latin alphabet.\n\n\nBut Jesus name is Yahshua in the orginal text it the only name that give salvation. ACT 4;12 Jesus in A English translation that means nothing, because the holy name of Yah was took out. Which God many many times condemn people for not using his real name.\n\nJehovah name is all messed up the suffix Hovah means wicked, terrible in hebrew and it's missing Yah in the name so it have on meaning ethier.
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I Don't Know Why Christian People Call Jesus God!!!He's NoT!!
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The basic translation of the Hebrew God's name is YHWH.  The Jews left out the vowels because no human is worthy to either write or speak the full name of God.  Modern English speakers, fill in the vowel spaces with likely sounds, producing Yahweh.\n\nAs far as we can tell, the oldest name for the Hebrew God is YHWH, making this the most proper name.  Also, Christianity and Islam were created out of Judaism, so YHWH would be most proper name for the God of Christians and the God of Islam.\n\nThe basic story, from what I remember, is that Abraham was contacted by YHWH and his family and those who chose to follow YHWH became the Jews.  Over time, the Jews needed a Messiah, or a spiritual leader to bring them back to the right way of worship, so Jesus was sent to earth to help the Jews find the right path.  The followers of Jesus became the Christians.  After some time, Mohammed was born and spent his young life traveling, and came in contact with both Christian and Jewish merchants, from whom he learned about YHWH.  After some time, Mohammed was contacted by YHWH and became his prophet.  The followers of Mohammed became the Muslims.\n\nThat is roughly how it all went.  So, Non-Jews call God YHWH because that is his name, and we all follow that same God.
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NOPE HE IS NOT THE SON OF MAN.. JESUS WAS JUST A JEWISH GUY THAT RAN AROUND DOING TORAH TEACHINGS AND WAS GREATLY MISUNDERSTOOD.
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The answer is Jesus is NOT God.\nHe is God's spokesman.\nThat's why he is sometimes called The Word.\nJust like an ambassador represents his government in a far away place.\nHe was sent to Israel, therefore he hesitated to have dealings with anyone not an Israelite.
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Why do many Bible translations not use the personal name of God or use it only a few times?\n\nThe preface of the Revised Standard Version explains: “For two reasons the Committee has returned to the more familiar usage of the King James Version: (1) the word ‘Jehovah’ does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew; and (2) the use of any proper name for the one and only God, as though there were other gods from whom he had to be distinguished, was discontinued in Judaism before the Christian era and is entirely inappropriate for the universal faith of the Christian Church.” (Thus their own view of what is appropriate has been relied on as the basis for removing from the Holy Bible the personal name of its Divine Author, whose name appears in the original Hebrew more often than any other name or any title. They admittedly follow the example of the adherents of Judaism, of whom Jesus said: “You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.”—Matt. 15:6.)\n\nTranslators who have felt obligated to include the personal name of God at least once or perhaps a few times in the main text, though not doing so every time it appears in Hebrew, have evidently followed the example of William Tyndale, who included the divine name in his translation of the Pentateuch published in 1530, thus breaking with the practice of leaving the name out altogether.\n\nWas the name Jehovah used by the inspired writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures?\n\nJerome, in the fourth century, wrote: “Matthew, who is also Levi, and who from a publican came to be an apostle, first of all composed a Gospel of Christ in Judaea in the Hebrew language and characters for the benefit of those of the circumcision who had believed.” (De viris inlustribus, chap. III) This Gospel includes 11 direct quotations of portions of the Hebrew Scriptures where the Tetragrammaton is found. There is no reason to believe that Matthew did not quote the passages as they were written in the Hebrew text from which he quoted.\n\nOther inspired writers who contributed to the contents of the Christian Greek Scriptures quoted hundreds of passages from the Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. Many of these passages included the Hebrew Tetragrammaton right in the Greek text of early copies of the Septuagint. In harmony with Jesus’ own attitude regarding his Father’s name, Jesus’ disciples would have retained that name in those quotations.—Compare John 17:6, 26.\n\nIn Journal of Biblical Literature, George Howard of the University of Georgia wrote: “We know for a fact that Greek-speaking Jews continued to write ???? within their Greek Scriptures. Moreover, it is most unlikely that early conservative Greek-speaking Jewish Christians varied from this practice. Although in secondary references to God they probably used the words [God] and [Lord], it would have been extremely unusual for them to have dismissed the Tetragram from the biblical text itself. . . . Since the Tetragram was still written in the copies of the Greek Bible which made up the Scriptures of the early church, it is reasonable to believe that the N[ew] T[estament] writers, when quoting from Scripture, preserved the Tetragram within the biblical text. . . . But when it was removed from the Greek O[ld] T[estament], it was also removed from the quotations of the O[ld] T[estament] in the N[ew] T[estament]. Thus somewhere around the beginning of the second century the use of surrogates [substitutes] must have crowded out the Tetragram in both Testaments.”—Vol. 96, No. 1, March 1977, pp. 76, 77.\n\nWhich form of the divine name is correct—Jehovah or Yahweh?\n\nNo human today can be certain how it was originally pronounced in Hebrew. Why not? Biblical Hebrew was originally written with only consonants, no vowels. When the language was in everyday use, readers easily provided the proper vowels. In time, however, the Jews came to have the super
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Yahshua is Hebrew for what we term "Joshua" which means Jehovah is Salvation.\n\nYahweh is the closest we can come to what God called Himself since the Jewish scholars refused to spell out His Name fully. The closest we have is the consonants YHWH, or YaHWeH.\n\nEl is the word for God. Elohim is the plural--not "gods" but God in the mystic threefold unity. The Echad. See my study below, "Is God One or Three?"\n\nYHWH did not command for His names or titles to be changed. However, He also did not punish the Hebrews or the new Gentile church for it either. He knows who He is. He is the God of Abraham, Ysaak and Yakob, and His Name is to be worshipped and praised. Baruch HaShem Adonai. :)
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According to the Bible, Jesus is God, and has always been God.  But in order to accomplish the salvation of man, He laid aside that right, and took a position that was less then God - that of His Son - and humbled Himself to God as His Father being obedient even to the point of dying on the cross.  Because of that, He was raised from the dead and returned to the position of full Godship with His Father.  (Read Phillippians 2: 6-11).\n\nIn the Jewish culture that Jesus lived, to term translated "the son of..." was a legal term that referred to someone who had all the rights and power of their father.  To refer to Jesus as "the son of God" meant the He had all the rights and power of God.  It is differrent that what we think of when we hear the English term "the son of...".  This is why during Jesus' trial before the Jews, when He referred to Himself as "the son of God", the high priest torn his garment and called him a blasphemer, because He made Himself equal with God.\n\nYou may debate all day whether or not Jesus was divine, but there is no room for debate over whether the Bible SAYS Jesus was divine.  There are hundreds of refers to His divinity in it.\n\nSo the answer is: Jesus, by claiming to be the Son of God, was claiming to be God.  They are the same thing.
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I agree with you, depending upon your language preference it varies, but his name is Jehovah , or JHVH, or in hebrew Yahweh YHWH, it used to be in most bibles but today it's been removed from most
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Jesus was not the last prophet, he was not a prophet at all. He is the Son of God. Why do you assume th is passage is referring to Jesus? There were many prophets that came after Moses. And as for one that was of the bloodline, John the Baptist fit the description.
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Some would say that God’s name is Jesus Christ. Yet Jesus was praying to someone else when he said: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world.” (John 17:6) He was praying to God in heaven not himself. (John 17:1)\n\nNobody knows for sure how the name of God was originally pronounced.  The first language used in writing the Bible was Hebrew, and when the Hebrew language was written down, the writers used only consonants—not vowels.  So, when the Bible writers wrote God’s name, they wrote only the consonants.  For instance, your name would be recorded in ancient Hebrew as “Pl.”  People who know you would know to supply “au” to the consonants to pronounce your name when reading it out loud.  In English we do this occasionally when we use abbreviations such as “Ltd.” for “Limited” and “bldg.” for “building”.\n\nJewish scholars of the second half of the first millennium C.E. invented a system of points to represent the missing vowels, and they placed these around the consonants in the Hebrew Bible. When it came to God’s name, however, instead of putting the proper vowel signs around it, they put other vowel signs around it.  Why?  Jews adopted a superstitious belief that pronouncing the divine name was forbidden.  So, everywhere the four consonants of God’s name appeared in the Bible, notations were made to remind the reader to pronounce the Hebrew word ’Adho•nai´ meaning “Sovereign Lord” instead. From this practice came the spelling Iehouah, and, eventually, this pronounciation morphed into Jehovah in English.\n\nFinally, the ancient Hebrew language eventually ceased to be used in everyday conversation, so the original Hebrew pronunciation of God’s name was forgotten.\n\n“Jehovah’ preserves, equally with other forms, the four letters of the Tetragrammaton, YHWH or JHVH.  We cannot be sure that the vowel sounds are accurate.\n\nYahweh is another form of the divine name. \n\nIs Buddha, Allah, Vishnu, etc… the same God?  No, because none of these names are forms of the divine name represented by the four Hebrew consonants.  In addition, the description of these gods does not match the personality of the God of the Bible.  \n\nTo maintain that they are the same god would be like asserting that you and all the other people on Yahoo "Answers" are the same person only with different screen names.  Do you really even have the same qualities and thinking?  Do you deserve credit for their accomplishments and do they deserve credit for yours?\n\n The important thing is that we use the name and declare it to others. “Give thanks to Jehovah, you people! Call upon his name. Make known among the peoples his dealings. Make mention that his name is put on high.”—Isaiah 12:4.\n\nForms of the divine name in different languages, indicating international acceptance of the form Jehovah\n\nAwabakal - Yehóa\nBugotu - Jihova\nCantonese - Yehwowah\nDanish - Jehova\nDutch - Jehovah\nEfik - Jehovah\nEnglish - Jehovah\nFijian - Jiova\nFinnish - Jehova\nFrench - Jéhovah\nFutuna - Ihova\nGerman - Jehova\nHungarian - Jehova\nIgbo - Jehova\nItalian - Geova\nJapanese - Ehoba\nMaori - Ihowa\nMotu - Iehova\nMwala-Malu - Jihova\nNarrinyeri - Jehovah\nNembe - Jihova\nPetats - Jihouva\nPolish - Jehowa\nPortuguese - Jeová\nRomanian - Iehova\nSamoan - Ieova\nSotho - Jehova\nSpanish - Jehová\nSwahili - Yehova\nSwedish - Jehova\nTahitian - Iehova\nTagalog - Jehova\nTongan - Jihova\nVenda - Yehova\nXhosa - uYehova\nYoruba - Jehofah\nZulu - uJehova
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No, Jesus is referred to as the second Adam.  See 1 Cor 15:45.
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Jesus was both Jewish AND Israeli.
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It's probably a replacement word for using Jesus' name improperly.  I also use "holy swiss," and "cheese and rice" as replacements in polite enough company.
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Gods name is not in the bible in the English translation you have The Lord,THE LORD,God his name is not used. Everywhere where THE LORD is use it was once YHWH with vowels it's believe to be pronouce Yahweh, and where The Lord is used you have adoni which the hebrews change YHWH to adoni to prevent improper pronoucing of his name. With is why no one remember this name.