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It is incredible how many Anglophone people we encounter who really think the Messiah had an English name.
We even find
Americans like Dan Popp who find it foolishness that Americans don't need to learn
anything about the Jewish history or culture, and find it ridiculous that there are folks who go around substituting "Yeshua" for "Jesus". He thinks they are are not just
harmless know-nothings, but it may be that they're trying to re-Jewify
something that God has made universal.
He is afraid that the "Yeshua"
people are in the process of falling into the first error – trying to
mash up Law and Grace.
He really seem to think all the
New Testament authors wrote "Jesus" rather than "Yeshua" in the
Holy Scriptures. This gives the impression that he is really convinced that the Greek writers used the
English translation for the real name of the Nazarene man who gave his life for all living people.
He also does not seem to see that the Apostles wrote "Yeshua"
or "
Jeshua" in modern spelling or in the spelling of other languages (like in English, Dutch, French) He also seem to think that the master teacher whom he considers also to be God gave
Simon Bar-Jonah a Greek name but says it was "Peter". Peter is not at all a Greek name and in other languages we may find his name also be translated as "Peter" but totally differently pronounced than English speaking people do. In other languages they may say Petrus, which Paul freely
converted to its Hebrew form, Cephas.
Then Dan Popp says
No such translation was ever done
with the name of Christ in the New Testament. {It's Jesus, not Yeshua}
He also does seem to forget how the names where altered at the time of Constantine, whose real name was also not Constantine but Constantinus. Though lots of
English people do want all other people having the name how they want to pronounce it in their language.
In 325 was decided to agree to let the God of the followers of Christ be part of the godcircle of the Romans and the Greek. some also started to consider Jesus as a god and as such several could agree for a three headed god like in the Roman and Greek culture. those who wanted the Nazarene teacher to be their god did find they had to be the 'upper god' and as such was chosen for the name 'Hail Zeus' or 'Issou' which you can find in many translations of the Scriptures. This Issou became in several languages Jesu or Chesu and in English first Iesus and later Jesus.
Dan Popp questions:
What if God wanted to present His Son as more than just the parochial
savior of the Jews? What if He wanted to impart more than the mere
sound of the name – what if He wished the Gentile listener to understand
the meaning of the name ("The Salvation of Yahweh" or "Yahweh is
Salvation.") What if He wanted to crush faux Jews who run around
gushing about "Yeshua?" {It's Jesus, not Yeshua}
Again he does not seem to see what Jeshua or Joshua really means and what Issou or Iéssou really means. Jehovah saves, or that the child was given the name as signification, like Joshua, that God was with it and which parents gave also to honour the God Who brought salvation.
Jehovah God is the One God of gods Who took care that this child was born. He was it Who demanded to give the child the name Jeshua and not 'Hail Zeus' or Jesus.
Dan Popp writes further:
So, back to the Yeshua-ites. If the Holy Spirit knows Christ best,
never makes a mistake, and has a purpose (though it may be obscure to
us) for identifying the Second Person of the Trinity as "Jesus," what
kind of malfunction would we be experiencing to try to correct Him? {It's Jesus, not Yeshua}
Here again we do see that he does not want to accept what the Holy Spirit brings over to the world. Nowhere in the Bible you shall find the word 'Holy Trinity', neither shall you be finding that there is a three-godhead, or three-union god. Clearly in the Bible is indicated that God is an eternal Spirit who can not be seen by man and Who does not tell lies. that God told clearly about that man in the river Jordan who was seen by many, that it was his son. God never told it was Him standing there. God also told he could not be tempted, but after his baptism Jesus was tempted more than once. did Popp's god make than mistakes or said confusing things, though Popp himself says that the Holy Spirit, Who is God, does not make mistakes.
Could it not be that lots of Americans and lots of English speaking people are mistaken to think that all those Biblical characters had English names?
The translation of names happened. So we do not say it has to be turned back. But we have to be honest and have to accept that the characters in the time of Jesus did not have English names and even did not speak English at all. Therefore English people should also accept that others use the real name of those characters or even also use translations to their language of those characters. Also for the way of writing the English people should accept that the way of writing the sounds has changed by the time passing and that we may accept a new modern spelling, but always shave to remind of the old ways.
It is the same for lots of English speaking people who contestate that only the King James version is the True Bible and is the only bible which should be used, as if in the other language or even in English there is no other right translation. Typically of those who so strongly debate for the only use of the King James version is that they often use one of the man versions and never use the original
King James translation. And what for use would it be to use the old first translation to reach people and to get them interested in the word of God?
But let us remember that in that Bible is clearly written that there is only One true God and that Jeshua (Iesus or Jesus) is His only begotten son.
Isa 42:8 KJV-1611 I am the Lord; that is my name, and my glory will I not giue to another, neither my praise to grauen images.
Exo 20:7 KJV-1611 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse, that taketh his Name in vaine.
Luk 1:30-35 KJV-1611 And the Angel said vnto her, Feare not, Marie, for thou hast found fauour with God. (31) And behold, thou shalt conceiue in thy wombe, and bring forth a sonne, and shalt call his name Iesus. (32) He shall be great, and shall be called the sonne of the Highest, and the Lord God shall giue vnto him the throne of his father Dauid. (33) And hee shall reigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer, and of his kingdome there shall be no end. (34) Then said Marie vnto the Angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (35) And the Angel answered and said vnto her, The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee, and the power of the Highest shall ouershadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall bee borne of thee, shall bee called the sonne of God.
Luk 3:21-23 KJV-1611 Now when all the people were baptized, and it came to passe that Iesus also being baptized, and praying, the heauen was opened: (22) And the holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a Doue vpon him, and a voice came from heauen, which said, Thou art my beloued sonne, in thee I am well pleased. (23) And Iesus himselfe began to be about thirty yeeres of age, being (as was supposed) the sonne of Ioseph, which was the sonne of Heli,
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