Its about Jesus name?

Question

Was at a museum the other day and the guide told me that he was an atheist but he was interested why "Jesus" means "Salvation to Jehovah" and yet the churches don't call God by that name and say Jesus is God. Can all you churchgoers explain?

Answer 1

Encyclopaedia Judaica says that “the avoidance of pronouncing the name YHWH ... was caused by a misunderstanding of the Third Commandment.”
http://www.jehovantodistajat.fi/e/20040122/article_02.htm

(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth

(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them


The bible uses the Divine Name ("YHWH" or "Jehovah") nearly SEVEN THOUSAND TIMES. The bible writers refer to the Almighty by His personal name more times than by "God", "Lord", and "Father" COMBINED. There is no other personal name used in the bible more than the personal name of Almighty God. It seems clear that Jehovah wants his name to be used, while insisting that the Name be used respectfully.

(Exodus 20:7) You must not take up the name of Jehovah your God in a worthless way
http://watchtower.org/e/bible/ex/chapter_020.htm?bk=Ex;chp=20;vs=7;citation#bk7


The name "Jehovah" is an English translation of the Hebrew name pronounced as or similar to "Yahweh" or "Yehowah"; the exact original pronunciation is unknown. The four Hebrew characters corresponding to the letters "YHWH" are well-recognized as the biblical personal name of Almighty God, and are universally designated as "the Tetragrammaton" or "the Tetragram".

For centuries, most Jews have superstitiously refrained from pronouncing aloud any form of the divine Name. They base that superstition on the third of the Ten Commandments given to Moses:
(Exodus 20:7) You must not take up the name of Jehovah your God in a worthless way
http://watchtower.org/e/bible/ex/chapter_020.htm?bk=Ex;chp=20;vs=7;citation#bk7

Over the centuries, that Jewish superstition has expanded to also forbid writing or engraving any form of "YHWH", even when simply copying from one of the nearly 7000 occurences in the Hebrew Scriptures. In recent centuries, some superstitious Jews have even forbade unabbreviated EUPHEMISMS for "YHWH"; capitalized terms such as "Tetragrammaton" and (amazingly) even "the Name" are forbidden by such superstitions.

More recently, the Jewish superstition has ballooned out of all reasonableness by also forbidding respectful impersonal TERMS referring to the Almighty; thus many Jews insist upon writing "G-d" or "G~d" rather than "God". They may even refrain from capitalizing impersonal terms such as "Creator" and "Almighty".

Naturally, the religious and superstitious practices of a person are between him and his Creator. However, in recent decades these superstitious Jews have worked to impose their superstitious sensibilities beyond their religious communities, and onto the entire populace. Thus, although "YHWH' is unanimously recognized as the personal name of God, few today use any form of it in their writings and conversation.

Interestingly, Christendom has largely joined with superstitious Jews in suppressing the use of "Yahweh" and "Jehovah". However, it seems that Christiandom's anti-YHWH bias largely devolves from their hatred of Jehovah's Witnesses, the religion almost single-handedly responsible for the growing public recognition that the Almighty God of Judaism and Christianity actually does a personal name.

It seems that too many are more interested in coddling superstition than in allowing intellectual honesty and respect for the Almighty.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/na/
http://watchtower.org/e/20040122/

Answer 2

No mindless nonsense, just the facts.

Yehoshua, shortened to Yeshua, passed into Greek as IHSOUS, and anglicized as "Jesus," is indeed a Theophoric name, containing an element of the divine Name, Jehovah. It has also been understood to mean "Jehovah is Salvation."

Those churches that still use the King James Bible do occasionally mention the name Jehovah. But most modern translations of the Bible have replaced the name Jehovah with the titles LORD or GOD.

Why they removed God's own Name from his own Book is another question, but the replacement of God's Name in popular Bibles is one more reason why one is not likely to hear it in church.

Answer 3

Because Jesus was not originally thought to be God. The concept of the Trintiy has changed over time. He used to jsut be the SON of God, but is not God Himself. However, Jesus is considered by some to be divine and have powers and therefore can be prayed to. Christianity is a very diverse religion and not all "Christians" will agree on all issues.

Answer 4

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

Jehovah
n 1: a name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH [syn: Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH]

Answer 5

Jehovah, to my knowledge, is a name that God was called in the old testament, so it makes sense that Jesus would be called "salvation to Jehovah." Before Jesus' time, everyone was a sinner, and it wasn't until Jesus died for our sins that we were able to be forgiven and to talk to God directly. It's through him that we are able to go to God, because we are saved through Jesus.

There are many things that we call God, and Jesus is just part of the trinity (I think of it as water: three phases, one substance.) But I've never really heard that name before, so I've never really thought about it.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

Yes. Jehovah was the sacred name of the God of Israel. In Hebrew it is spelled YHWH.

Today the most preferred form is Yahweh over Jehovah.

God has many names: He Is, I AM, The Lord, or God. Jesus is the God-Man, God in the flesh, who came for a ransom of many. In Acts, we are told that there is no other name given unto heaven whereby fallen man can be saved. This name is Jesus.

Answer 7

Jesus (Hebrew: Yeshu / Yeshua) is the same name as the Hebrew name for Joshua, which means "YAHWEH is salvation".

Christians call Yahweh "God" as a way of blotting out or negating all other deities since the beginning of time. Christianity has survived by consuming and annihilating all competitive faiths whenever possible.

Answer 8

In the original language of the time, the name Jesus was actually a varient of the name Joseph, his (step)father.

It is the equivilent of distinguishing James, the father, from Jimmy, the son.

Both names and many similar variations were very common at the time.

Answer 9

Dear one - it isn't Salvation TO Jehovah - it is Jehovah (God) SAVES - or SAVED.

The Greek - Jesus Christ:

G2424
Ἰησοῦς
Iēsous
ee-ay-sooce'
Of Hebrew origin [H3091]; Jesus (that is, Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites: - Jesus.

G5547
Χριστός
Christos
khris-tos'
From G5548; anointed, that is, the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus: - Christ.

Comes from the Hebrew:

H3091
יהושׁע יהושׁוּע
yehôshûa‛ yehôshûa‛
yeh-ho-shoo'-ah, yeh-ho-shoo'-ah
From H3068 and H3467; Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (that is, Joshua), the Jewish leader: - Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare H1954, H3442.

I hope this helps.
Peace.

Answer 10

I am confused. Why would you want "Churchgoers" to explain anything. They can't even explain faith or god or the bible or the contradiction within or their need to war monger or why they even say turn the other cheek when in fact they are busy promoting wars or anything logical for that matter. Asking them to explain anything is like talking to a habitual liar. You don't need there help. You don't want there help. These are the same people that say things like "god told me to go to war" " I have never masturbated in my life" and other such contradictory and absurd statements. Think for yourself and don't ask one of them to do it for you.

See I had to hit the edit button just to say that they all have different opinions or problems. If you believe in the Trinity. If you don't. What horse (@#&