if the angel told Mary the child will be called Emmanuel?

Question

why do we call the lord Jesus instead of what name god gave the child Emmanuel

Answer 1

The identity of Jesus as Immanuel did not mean he was the incarnation of God, or God in the flesh, which trinitarians claim is what is meant by the meaning of Immanuel ("With Us Is God)
It was the common practice among Jews to use the word "God", even "Jehovah" in Hebrew names. Even today, Immanuel is the proper name of many men, and not one of them is God in the flesh.
Mary was told by the angel of Jehovah to namel his Son Jesus and that is what true worshippers called him then and he is still Christ Jesus today.

Answer 2

Emmanuel means "God with us" and since Christians say that Jesus is God in the flesh, he is called Emmanuel. Read the entire scripture, it is the angel who instructs the name to be Jesus, it wasn't like they chose not to listen to the angel and named him something else.

"She will give birth to a son and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." (Matt 1:21)
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord has said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" - which means, "God with us." (Matt 1:22-23)

Jesus is Greek meaning savior, and Christ is Greek meaning anointed.

Does it matter, though, if his name was Emmanuel or Jesus or Joshua? Apparently God did not care what his name was when he said "This is my son, whom I love" (Matthew 3:17)

Answer 3

In the prophecy of the virgin birth, Isaiah 7:14, the Prophet Isaiah declared, "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel." This prophecy is connected with the birth of Jesus in Matthew 1:22-23, "All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel' -which means, 'God with us.'" So, if the Messiah's name was supposed to be "Immanuel," why wasn't Jesus named Immanuel?



The answer is found in Matthew 1:23. The name "Immanuel" means "God with us." Jesus was God with us. Jesus was God in the flesh. Jesus was God making His dwelling among us (John 1:1,14). No, Jesus' name was not Immanuel, but Jesus was the meaning of Immanuel, "God with us." Immanuel is a title for Jesus, a description of who Jesus is...but it is not His name

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Answer 4

Bible:Matthew:1:21 'She will give birth to a son,and you are to give him the mame Jesus,because He will save His people from their sins.'
Luca:1:31 ..Jesus too,.. and Luca1:35...The Son of God...

Answer 5

Immanuel is another name for Jesus.

Answer 6

There is no Hebrew name Jesus in the first place. It is a combination of the corrupted form of the Hebrew God Jehovah (corrupted because it is actually Yahweh) and the Greek God Zeus. There you have Je + Zeus = Jesus. It doesent matter anyway because his name was Yeshua.

http://www.thenazareneway.com/yeshua_jesus_real_name.htm

Answer 7

Ummm...perhaps that's because the angel didn't say that:

"And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS."

Answer 8

yeah.!!!
great. your question made us to learn about Jesus.

Answer 9

Joseph was in intense pain. His fiancée Mary was pregnant, but not by him. What could he do now? How could their proposed marriage ever work now? But how could he let her go?

As he slept fitfully, and angel came to him in a dream to assure him, "What is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit."1 He believed the angel, took Mary to be his wife, and the rest is history.

I'm sure the townspeople believed Joseph was the child's father. To discredit him, a story circulated that he was the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier.

But right after the account of Joseph's dream, the Bible narrator says a very curious thing:

"All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel' -- which means, 'God with us.'"2
A prophetic sign given some 700 years before has a meaning beyond its own time.

What does Immanuel mean? First, the name or title Immanuel comes from two Hebrew words -- the preposition ‘im, "with, beside, by, among" + 'el, "God." It means simply, as the narrator tells us, "God with us."3

Do you know what it feels like to feel utterly alone? To try to attempt to live your life with no one to fall back on, no safety net, no help? If you've been through some desperate times in your life, then you know exactly what this feels like. The wonderful promise made through the Christ-child Immanuel is that God promises to be with you in your troubles. He will not leave you to your own resources. All of his resources are now available to you.

The difference for you can be like night and day. In past times God had made this kind of promise to special people in history.

Abraham was an alien in a threatening land, but God said to him, "I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go."4 Moses was told to personally confront the most powerful king on the face of the earth with nothing but a staff and the promise from God, "I will be with you!"5 Moses believed him and went to Pharaoh at great risk. As a result, God delivered the people of Israel from Egypt through the Red Sea. After Moses died, his apprentice was thrust into leadership. God promised Joshua, "As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you."6

Powerful stuff! But what about you and me? That Jesus is Immanuel, "God with us," means that his promise is not just to the great leaders but to all. The promise is to you. Just before Jesus ascended into heaven, he spoke to his disciples:

"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me…. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."7
That promise of Immanuel is not just to the apostles, it is to us also, for we see the same promise in the Bible to reassure all the rest of us -- "I will never leave you or forsake you."8

God Himself Is with Us in Jesus
The title Immanuel tells us about the mission of Jesus, it also tells us about his nature. Remember the context? We have just been told about Mary's pregnancy, Joseph's concern, and the angel's assurance ("What is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit"). At that point the narrator tells us that this fulfills Isaiah's prophecy, "'The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel' -- which means, 'God with us.'" Matthew's account of Mary's conception tells the story from Joseph's point of view. Luke's account focuses on Mary's experience. The angel Gabriel has told Mary that she will bear a son who will be the Messiah.

"'How will this be,' Mary asked the angel, 'since I am a virgin?
The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.'"9
In other words, Immanuel, "God with us," is to be understood literally. Jesus is physical son of Mary in his human nature, but spiritually, he is the Son of God, he has been begotten by God himself.

So when the shepherds and wise men gather and worship the Baby, they are worshipping God himself. Jesus the Son is divine to the same degree that the Father is divine.

Jesus is God!
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God.

And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.



That is the very radical meaning of Christmas. It isn't about mistletoe and music, or parties and presents, or even the spirit of giving. Christmas is a celebration of the radical fact that God took on human flesh when Jesus was born. Jesus -- God Himself -- is Immanuel, God With Us!