Are the names Rachel and Josh only for Jewish people? or can Christians call their kids them too?
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Anybody of any religion (or race) can name their child what they wish.
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Yes I do wonder.. I wonder what you are trying to say.  I know the Watchtower uses Ps 83:18 to say we have to use the name Jehovah when talking about GOD as if GOD is too dumb to know who we are referring to.   In reality, they even admit that Jehovah was not GOD's name but since they had millions of things printed before realizing that, they had to stick with it.  Yahweh is far more accurant but in reality GOD has many names but the name HE is most accurately know by is I AM.  This is the same name JESUS used for Himself in John 8:24   \n\nMore important, GOD wants a relationship with us far more then a formal agreement.  My kids knew I was their dad long before they knew my NAME!
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No, they got their name from configuring the number of members in their group. They are Christians. Cursing Christians, but Christians nonetheless.
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No, it is only Yahshuah, the reason we call it Yahshuah is because the prefix Yah is short for Yahweh, which is the fathers name. And Shua means salvation his sons name means Yahweh or "Yah is salvation"\n\nJews will call his name Yeshua which means "God save" or is salvation. But the Jews remove the name Yah from Yahshua for Ye in Yeshua. So they can't say the divine name of God.  That is why Jesus say he "HaYah(Yah)come in the father name a we receive him not..." but we do not receive his fathers name which is Yah thus Yahshuah\n\nmany believe the "O" in Yahoshuah and "H" suffix are silent. Thus Yahshua is his name, have any question about his name e-mail me i love to talk about his name.
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Immanuel, "God is with us." The simple fact is that it is quite common in the Bible for human beings to be given names that have the purpose of declaring or reflecting a particular attribute of God, e.g., Eliab, Eliada, Elzaphan, Eliakim, Elisha, Eleazar, Tavel, Gedaliah.\n\nIn Isaiah 7:14 the Hebrew states "hinei ha'almah harah veyoledet ben" "behold (hineih) the young woman (ha - the almah- young woman) is pregnant (harah) and shall give birth (ve-and yoledet-shall give birth) to a son (ben)". The Christians translate this as "behold a virgin shall give birth." They have made two mistakes (probably deliberate) in the one verse. They mistranslate "ha" as "a" instead of "the". They mistranslate "almah" as "virgin", when in fact the Hebrew word for virgin is "betulah". Aside from the fact that if you read the context of that prediction you will see clearly that it is predicting an event that was supposed to happen and be seen by king Achaz who lived 700 years before Jesus!
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Originally, the twelve tribes were identified by the names of the twelve sons of Jacob: Joseph, Judah, Issachar, Benjamin, Levi, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Simeon, Dan, Zebulun, Reuben. Later, Jacob told Joseph that he would treat Joseph's two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, as his own. At that time, those two tribes replaced Joseph and Levi among the Twelve.\n\nFor some reason,  some of the tribe names were the name plus "ite" .\n\nLevite = tribe of Levi,  Asher = Asherites, Benjamin= Benjaminites,etc..\n\n But some of the other ones - Issachar, Zebulun were simply known as the tribe of Issachar..etc...
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Wow, I love your question! I have been thinking this same sort of thing for the last few weeks.  If we are Christians, we worship the same God of the Israelites who commanded these feasts be celebrated.  Why do Christians have to be so separate from their Jewish roots?  I mean, that's where it all came from.  Their history is our history.  I think it's ridiculous how we have become our own subculture with our own holidays and everything!  My husband and I had a great conversation with a Messianic rabbi (that is, a Christian Jew and rabbi) about this topic.  I would really like Christians today to go back to the Jewish roots, the Hebrew roots, the Old Covenant, and really have a real faith in the true God. \nJust as a note: I do celebrate Easter and Christmas, but more out of tradition and culture than anything else. Christmas is my favorite time of year, just because it has that old nostalgic feeling to it, not particularly because we are celebrating the birth of Christ.\n\nGreat question!
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jewish people - the children of God
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we think "hey, how come christian bibles translate the word hebrew word for woman to mean virgin, even though thats not what it means? could it be because they have an agenda and are trying to dupe people who are ignorant of hebrew into believing in their idolatrous cult?"\n\nFather K - its called history. the jewish rabbis only translated the torah. the torah does not include isaiah.
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Superstition.\n\nIt's not exactly wrong to call the Almighty by the impersonal "God", just as it's not wrong to call one's offspring "Child". If we want a familiar and close relationship, however, it makes sense to use the personal name of someone we love. The Scriptures encourage us to use God's personal name.\n\nThe Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) does seem to accurately pronounce the divine name. Just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English.\n\nSome argumentative persons will argue that the Hebrew name “Yahweh” must only be translated into English as “I am what I am”. Yet such troublemakers fail to explain why they do not translate the Hebrew name “Yeshua” into English as “Jehovah is Salvation” or “I am what I am is Salvation”, which of course their small-minded literalism must surely require with regard to the name we know as “Jesus”.\n\nThe important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! The name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God” or “Lord”.\n\n(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth\n\n(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them
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Most who spell it with a Hyphen "-" are Jewish.  It is a tradition from the Old Testament where God warned them not to take His name in vain, so they do not pronounce the name of God to avoid the misuse of it.
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I am one of those people! Sorry; it's such a habit that I'm not aware of it.\nIn Judaism, G-d's Name is so sacred & holy that it is never written out. We don't even say His Name. The terms you may hear others use such as YHVH or Jehovah are highly offensive & never used because they are inaccurate.\nWhen Jewish people pray, we use the term "Ha Shem" which literally means "The Name". We may also use the term "Adonai" which means "L-rd".\nHope this helps!\nAnd, it's wrong for me to write the word "Adonai". For me to write it like Jews do, it needs to be missing a vowel, but you'd then ask what THAT means!!!!!!!!!!! It should say "Ad-nai".
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i definitely agree with that. i also wonder how some people call themselves christian and call anyone who isnt christian the worst names they can think of.
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The Jews are and always will be God's chosen people. Unfortunately because of this, the powers of spiritual darkness in the world have targeted Judaism for that very reason. As a Christian, I for one have to say thank you, you have given us the Patriarchs as an example. God Bless you.
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It's not exactly wrong to call the Almighty by the impersonal "God", just as it's not wrong to call one's offspring "Child". If we want a familiar and close relationship, however, it makes sense to use the personal name of someone we love. In English, God's name is “Jehovah”  and his Son's name is “Jesus”.\n\nThe Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) expresses the divine name perhaps more accurately with its original Hebrew pronunciation. But just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English. \n\nSome argumentative persons will argue that the Hebrew name “Yahweh” must only be translated into English as “I am what I am”. Yet such troublemakers fail to explain why they do not translate the Hebrew name “Yeshua” into English as “Jehovah is Salvation” or “I am what I am is Salvation”, which of course their small-minded literalism must surely require with regard to the name we know as “Jesus”.\n\nThe important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! Even the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God”, and the name “Yeshua” is certainly preferable to the non-name “Son”\n\nPs 83:18 That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth
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Excellent observation. They could "fulfil" many prophesies (ie. riding into town on a donkey), but they couldn't change his name. Yeshua was not the Messiah. Ask the Jews, they know better what their own scripture says than the Romans.
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In Europe, Jewish families didn´t either have family names at all or the family name was the name of the father.\nAt the beginning of the 19 th century, Jews had to choose family names in many european countries. But names from which you could "see" that the person is jewish, that means names which sound jewish, were not allowed because the Jewish people should be assimilated. So, the choosed for example German, French or Russian names.