Posted on 09/18/2007 7:00:07 PM PDT by STD
Could very well be.
The trouble is that Greek doesn’t have a “sh” sound, and it forms the masculine singular with an “os.” Then, somehow, perhaps in the Middle Ages, the iota became what we know as the hard “j” sound. It’s just a natural progression from one language to the next.
The name “Jesus” obscures a very important biblical connection. Yeshua [Yehoshua] the Messiah and Joshua [Yehoshua] the son of Nun, Moses’ servant who led the children of Israel into the Promised Land, had the same Hebrew name.
I remember Nun in the Bible. He was Joshua's father, right?
Rav Kaduri said the war of Gog Magog started in October 2001 and would last for seven years (October 2008).
bump for later reading.
Not yet.
Probably not likely.
Jesus in English
Isn’t Jesus the Greek transliteration of Joshua or Yeshua?
“You call him Doctor Jones!”
Yes.
Personally, I call him “Lord”.
I call him Lord, Lord Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord God. What ever name I call him he knows I'm talking to "Him".
He knows my name that’s all that matters.
Yes it is.
“You have chose wisely.”
The name of the Lord is a mighty strong tower. The righteous run therein and are safe.
Is it a mistranslation, or rather the difference between the Latin and Hebrew versions of the name? For example, John, Juan, Ian, Iain, Ivan, Jan, and Johann all mean the same thing, the Latin version of which is rendered in English as John.
Isn't Jesus just a Latinization of Y'shua, the same name that came straight to English as Joshua?
And according to the same demographic, the name of the Antichrist is "Ron Paul."
The J sound certainly did come later. Neither the Hebrew yod, the Greek iota, or the latin I were pronounced J. Still, I don’t believe that the Lord minds our speech impediment. The One whom we worship is clear, and it sounds like the Rabbi may have had some understanding of that.
Does that mean Hillary wins in 2008 and surrenders the country to Al Qaeda shortly thereafter?
Interestingly, George Heron, a French mathematician, calculated that the odds of one man fulfilling only 40 of those prophecies are 1 in 10 to the power of 157. That is a 1 followed by 157 zeros. Compare it to this; your odds on winning the state lottery are 14 followed by 6 zeros.
Another mathematician, Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, claims the odds of being fulfilled only 60 of them by the only person who claimed to be the Son of God, and who died on a "tree" on Calvary, and who rose the 3rd day are astronomical!... not just one in one trillion, but one out of ten to the 895th power. That is a one over a one followed by 895 zeros.
Praise God!
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