Why do Christians continue to insist calling their savior "Jesus" when in actuality his name was Joshua?

Question

(The Greek language had no translation for the Jewish name Joshua [Yeshua] and settled on Jesus when writing the New Testament. YES, this is fact.)

Answer 1

Joshua was Yehoshuah, Jesus was a myth.

Answer 2

why do you care so much? the manuscripts are written in Greek, and the Greek form of Joshua is Jesus. And yes it does have a Greek translation for Joshua, just like any language. Like Mary (greek) can be Mariam (Hebrew) or Maria (espanol)

the important thing to know is that Jesus is Christ (the Messiah in Hebrew), Son of the Living God.

Answer 3

"Jesus" is a name derived from "Joshua" - similar to calling a guy named William - Bill !!! "Jesus" or "Joshua" are quite acceptable derivatives of the Jewish into Greek rendition of "Yeshua" ! It's really no big deal !

Answer 4

Fascinating. If you know so much about Christianity, then you know that traditions and the evolution of traditions is taken very seriously. The Church is aware of the pagan symbols that it incorporated into practice, its aware of mistranslations, contradictions, etc. But tradition, and the meaning that has developed around certain traditions, is an important expression of humanity and of faith. So what? For nearly 2000 years we have been using the term "Jesus" so now it is the name of the expression of that faith. It would be against the respect for tradition, theologically speaking, to change it now. So you aren't a Christian...are you able to critically examine problems within your own religious tradition, or do you just have fun sitting around poking holes in everyone else's religions?

Answer 5

think of of the observe God as a call. A CEO does unlike for her call for use gently. God is a curse observe in maximum western civilizations. I say bloody in u.s. and no person thinks two times yet I say it in front of somebody from England and that i've got mentioned a very undesirable curse observe. No offense meant to those over the pond. you're speaking modern-day language and objective of a heart. If I say Oh God and that i'm incredibly chatting with Him because of the fact i prefer that bus to no longer ram my automobile then i'm golden. If i'm ticked and say an identical then i'm utilising it emptily (vainly) to no longer entreat Him and not for His purposes. This has no longer something to do with how English could be used in accordance to Hebrew convention. that is use is situational and not open to interpretation different than to human beings that don't see the glaring. i'm no longer insulting you, that is exciting to do psychological gymnastics yet I truthfully have a stressful time believing that's a actual question.

Answer 6

Or, since Joshua is the latinization of Yeshua, why not call him what he most likely would have heard when his discipled spoke his name?

Yah-shoo-ah. Not very hard to say, after all.

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Royal Racer: if one does a phonological analysis of the Tetragrammaton, one finds that there are no vowels that can be placed into it and have a word that can be pronounced by human vocal cords. No matter how you say it, you will have a best approximation only.

Answer 7

While every Bible reader needs to be aware of that fact - You are still just arguing over semantics. What you just said changes nothing.

My name in any other language and language variant, is still my name.

Same with variants of Billy or Bill vs William. All these are the same. Understand?

Answer 8

I have read the old and the new testaments. Joshua was someone completely different than Jesus. I think you are confused. Keep reading the Holy Bible and you will figure it out with GODs' help. Thank you and GOD bless.

Answer 9

His name was never "Joshua". It was either Y-su, Y-sus or Y-shua.

The Greek language always substituted "J" for "Y".

Time to get your facts straight.

Answer 10

in arabic my name is hanna. in english my name is John in russian i am known as Ivan in spain i would be called Juan. In it armenian or greek i would be Hovannes. am i a different person. i think not. names dont matter you could call Him asdfghjkl but it would not matter its the Man not the name He is called.