[SkyPilot]

Ran into a recent breed of folks lately myself, they start adopting ancient sounding “Jewish” names for themselves, believe you cannot pray to Jesus using the Anglicanized name, and start complaining about which actual day you should go to worship service. It starts to get actually laughable when they argue among themselves if His name should be pronounced as YA-shoe-AH or YES-sue-ay or some other. If you get them in a room with someone who is actually a linguist expert who knows something about Aramaic and Hebrew though, they stare at their shoes a bit and then do a lot of hand waving. Don't get me wrong, I love learning learning His original name......but I can pray to him using the name Jesus. Legalism is a terrible road, however, once you down the one way street.

[editor-surveyor]

The “Anglicized name is Joshua. (which is pronounced just like Yeshua)

“Jesus” is not an anglicized version of Yeshua, it is the anglicized version of the rabinical curse YSHU, which is an acronym of the full curse “Yimach Shimo Vezichro” which means “May his name forgotten and never remembered.”

The Greek translators either knew no better, or agreed with the Rabbis. It is interesting to note though that the English Bible translators corrected the Greek error for the prophet Joshua of the Old testament, but not for our Savior.

You can check all the Greek texts or Strongs, and see that the Greeks used the same name for both, but the KJV translators only saw fit to make the correction for one of them. Hmmmm.

The Holy Spirit is working among the elect to cause us to use the correct names, and eventually all of his sheep will do so.

[Elsie]

AMEN!