Jesus or Joshua?

Question

Why do we call the Christ Jesus when his name is "Yeshua" the same name translated as Joshua in the bible? Does anyone know where the name Jesus came from? I think I will start calling him Joshua Christ to be different what do you think?

Sorry to inform people but Yeshua is the hebrew name of Joshua and changing the Y to a J gives you Jeshua very close to Joshua but not even close to Jesus.

Jesus is not the translation of Yeshua. ever notice how close the sus is to Zeus?

Answer 1

Yeshua or Yahshua is correct it means YAHWEH is Salvation. Jesus Christ comes from several skygod dieties. JE from Le which is Babylonian, SUS from Zeus which is a Greek sky God and Chirst comes from Christos which is Greek and means the annointed one and also Christ comes from Krishna which is a Hindu Skygod or Sungod.

You are right in saying that Joshua and Yahshua is one and the same. See Ist Corinthians 10:1-4 and Hebrews 12:2
He instituted it thru Joshua the son of Nun and fulfilled it thru Yahshua the Messiah, one and the same spirit.

Answer 2

The name is Joshua which was common at the time. Jesus is a made up Greek version that came later. So The historical figure that Jesus is based on would have been called Rabbi Joshua Ben Joseph.
Jesus as a name (and some would say more) was an invention of Greek intellectuals and it mean what it sounds like "Je sus" "He's Zues" that is God and Man at the same time...

Answer 3

In Hebrew and in several other languages where one might find such names, there are no vowels written. Sometimes they put little "points" on or near a letter to indicate a vowel so as to clear up any ambiguities. So Jesus and Joshua would look nearly identical. The name is Jesus in English because of transliterations into Greek and into Latin. And anyway, so he had a similar name as another, who doesn't? Probably others in the area and at those times had the same name.

Answer 4

I prefer the name Yeshua because it is possibly close to the name He actually used while on earth.
It has been less abused than the name Jesus by nonbelievers as well and that feels nice. I think the name Jesus comes from the latin translations but I'm not sure.

Answer 5

His true name in the original language is Yeshua, but at that point there is more than one way to translate it. Joshua and Jesus are both equally correct translations. Don't know why they chose one over the other.

Answer 6

Messiah yeshua would be more accurate but the often translated y to ~J at that time as in YHWH to Jehovah and so on many mistakes made when the bible was first translate to king James that have not been altered in English bibles I mean in names using Jewish names makes the message much clearer

Answer 7

Yeshua. No J sound in Hebrew. The cool kids like pronouncing things right.

Answer 8

Jesus Christ is a name given to him. It's the name of the messiah, not his real name. I forget how it's worded, but Jesus' real name would have been something like Yeshua barJoseph

Answer 9

No. Don't do that. Yeshua is a special name for Jesus in Jewish. The name Jesus came directly from God as he sent an angel to tell Joseph to name him that.

Answer 10

EVERYTHING I HAVE READ BEFORE AND AFTER THIS ANSWER IS UTTER NONSENSE.

There is no such language as Jewish, and Jesus isn't how his name is pronoucned in proper Hebrew either. Allow me to enlighten you. =)

Joshua is properly transliterated from Hebrew as "Yo-SHU-a," while Jesus in Hebrew is "YE-shu." They are completely different names. Jesus was a semi-common name for Jews until Christians began their separatist movement from Judaism subsequent to Jesus' death.

So, they are completely different names!

I wish you all the best, and hope this helps!