If Jesus was true man and true God, why does the census show about 31 Jesuses?

Question

According to a television show on Jesus, they have the Roman census from that time. Why would Mary and Joseph give him a name that thirty other couples gave their sons?

Is the record of many boys named Jesus or of one boy 31 times?

Am I trying to understand the ununderstandable?

Answer 1

The name Jesus (Gr., I·e·sous′) corresponds to the Hebrew name Jeshua (or, in fuller form, Jehoshua), meaning “Jehovah Is Salvation.” The name itself was not unusual, many men being so named in that period. For this reason persons often added further identification, saying, “Jesus the Nazarene.” (Mr 10:47; Ac 2:22)

Where in the Bible does it say Jesus was true man and true God? NOWHERE! If the human Jesus were true God, why did he call his Father the ONLY true God? (John 17:3) Would that not be a contradiction? How many "only true Gods" are there when the Father is the only true God?

Answer 2

Maybe it's like with all the Santa Clauses you see everywhere before Christmas, you know, how they are all Santa's helpers. Probably one of those Jesuses was the real Jesus and the other 30 were Jesus' helpers, who would stand-in for him at Bar Mitzva appearances and stuff like that.

Answer 3

When Jesus was on the earth, the name was very common....much like Michael or John is today. Check the World Book Encyclopedia.

Answer 4

Jesus is Greek for Joshua,one of the most common Jewish names at the time

Answer 5

There were no Roman censuses at that time, Herod was King.

Peace and Blessings,

Imam Salim

Answer 6

Christ’s divinity is shown over and over again in the New Testament. For example, in John 5:18 we are told that Jesus’ opponents sought to kill him because he "called God his Father, making himself equal with God."

In John 8:58, when quizzed about how he has special knowledge of Abraham, Jesus replies, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am"—invoking and applying to himself the personal name of God—"I Am" (Ex. 3:14). His audience understood exactly what he was claiming about himself. "So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple" (John 8:59).

In John 20:28, Thomas falls at Jesus’ feet, exclaiming, "My Lord and my God!" (Greek: Ho Kurios mou kai ho Theos mou—literally, "The Lord of me and the God of me!")

In Philippians 2:6, Paul tells us that Christ Jesus "[w]ho, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped" (New International Version). So Jesus chose to be born in humble, human form though he could have simply remained in equal glory with the Father for he was "in very nature God."

Also significant are passages that apply the title "the First and the Last" to Jesus. This is one of the Old Testament titles of Yahweh: "Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of armies: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides me there is no god’" (Is. 44:6; cf. 41:4, 48:12).

This title is directly applied to Jesus three times in the book of Revelation: "When I saw him [Christ], I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, ‘Fear not, I am the First and the Last’" (Rev. 1:17). "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the First and the Last, who died and came to life’" (Rev. 2:8). "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end" (Rev. 22:12–13).

This last quote is especially significant since it applies to Jesus the parallel title "the Alpha and the Omega," which Revelation earlier applied to the Lord God: "‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Rev. 1:8).

Answer 7

So we have to use "The Jesus" from now on, and not just "Jesus"?

Answer 8

It doesn't matter. What matter is how religion is practised - not how precise it is.

Answer 9

He traveled alot.