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To: Pelham
His name is his name, regardless of what language you speak. YSHU is the curse against his name, which you apparently endorse. His name has never been Jesus, and never will be. There is nothing in Greek. The Greeks just copied the Hebrew acronym. Jesus is the Romanization of the cop-out. Ιησούς has nothing whatsoever to do with Yeshua/Joshua unless you wish to curse him; it is phonetically the curse. People's names do not change when they travel in the real world; that is a sorry dishonest alibi. (and Jacob is not Hebrew)
190 posted on 08/25/2015 2:46:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
"YSHU is the curse against his name, which you apparently endorse"

Well that's just you engaging in libel or 'bearing false witness' as it was called in early modern English. But if that's the sort of behavior your religion lets you get away with knock yourself out.

"There is nothing in Greek. The Greeks just copied the Hebrew acronym."

Of course it was Jewish scholars and not Greeks who translated the Hebrew bible into Greek back during the 3rd century BC, but then history isn't exactly your strong point.

Hebrew was becoming a lost language with Greek and Aramaic supplanting it, and the large Jewish colony in Alexandria wanted a translation that they could easily use.

The Jewish scholars who created what we call the Septuagint knew a good deal more about the Greek and Hebrew languages than you do. And they rendered the name Yeshua into Greek as Ιησούς. Deal with it.

194 posted on 08/25/2015 4:54:30 PM PDT by Pelham (Without deportation you have defacto amnesty)
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