2007-12-30 08:02:15 · 23 answers · asked by enabarts2005 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Like the first answer Emmanual means Jesus. I also thought Jesus was to be named Jesus.
2007-12-30 08:08:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Emmanuel is a Title given to this Child, but the Book of Luke says that the Archangel Gabriel told his mother the child is to be called "Jesus."
Emmanuel is a Title from the Book of Isaiah where God promises in a prophecy to send His Son, the Emmanuel, born of a Virgin. Isaiah was written around 701 BC, while Luke was written about The Christ who is Jesus the Lord after his death, resurrection and ascension into heaven. "He will come to save His People from their sins." He is the Savior of the World.
[quoted] "the Messias, the hope of Israel and the glory of the house of David, implies by his very name "Emmanuel", or "God with us", the Divine presence among his people. A number of the Fathers, e.g. St. Irenaeus, Lactantius, St. Epiphanius, St. Chrysostom, and Theodoret, regard the name "Emmanuel", not merely as a pledge of Divine assistance, but also as an expression of the mystery of the Incarnation by virtue of which the Messias will be "God with us" in very deed." [see source]
2007-12-30 16:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by QueryJ 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The text does not mean that the baby's name would be Emmanuel. It means that the man would be called emmanuel, which means that he would be described as the manifestation of the deity, or Son of God. Which is exactly what happened.
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2007-12-30 17:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by miller 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, ° (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, ° and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
“Immanuel” means “God with us”—that is, God incarnate in human flesh, the unique miracle implied by the Edenic promise of the conquering “Seed of the Woman” in Genesis 3:15.
2007-12-30 17:47:49 · answer #4 · answered by Evolution - of - the - gaps 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's what the writer of Matthew says, and
Jesus was never called by that name. Emmanuel was what Prophet Isaiah called the New Israel sprung from the stock of Judah, after Israel, the Kingdom of the North was rejected by God and removed by Sennacherib, the King of Assyria. Check the sources to understand.
2007-12-30 16:21:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Emmanuel was a title rather than a personal name.
2007-12-30 17:38:35 · answer #6 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was to be called both Emmanuel, meaning "God with us" in hebrew and also Jesus, which its Greek equivalent is "Joshua", meaning "Yahweh is salvation or "Yahweh saves". The hebrews used the term Yahweh as a name for God. So the name Jesus or Joshua translates into "God is salvation; God saves". These two names simply identified him as savior as well as who he really was which was God in human flesh among us.
Matthew 1:21-- She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jseus, for he will save his people from their sins."
Isaiah 7:14-- Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (God with us).
2007-12-30 16:31:50 · answer #7 · answered by caring person 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Emmanuel was a title meaning "God with us". It was the credentials of Jesus Christ. To let Mary know that her baby Jesus was in fact God made into flesh.
2007-12-30 16:06:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
If you ask me what the scariest things are in Christianity - it is this infatuation with biblical prophecy and this notion that Jesus is going to come back as an avenging savior to kill all the bad people.
Isaiah must have been smoking pot - it says that God told Isaiah to tell Ahaz, the King of Judah, not to be concerned about Rezin (the king of Syria) or Pekah (the king of Israel). But according to 2 Chr.28:5-6 "God delivered him [Ahaz] into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter." 7:3-7
The King James Version mistranslates the Hebrew word "almah", which means "young woman" as "virgin". (The Hebrew word, "bethulah", means "virgin".) In addition, the young woman referred to in this verse was living at the time of the prophecy. And Jesus, of course, was called Jesus -- and is not called Emmanuel in any verse in the New Testament. 7:14
These following verses go on to falsely predict that Babylon will never again be inhabited. 13:19-20, palaces will be full of Dragons and satyrs will dance there. 13:21-22
This verse prophesies that Damascus will be completely destroyed and no longer be inhabited. Yet Damascus has never been completely destroyed and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities. 17:1
The river of Egypt (identified as the Nile in RSV) shall dry up. This has never occurred. 19:5 - Nor has "The land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt." Judah never invaded Egypt and was never a military threat to Egypt. 19:17 The next verse predicts that there shall be five cities in Egypt that speak the Canaanite language. But that language was never spoken in Egypt, and it is extinct now. 19:18
These verses predict that the Egyptians will worship the Lord (Yahweh) with sacrifices and offerings. But Judaism has never been an important religion in Egypt. 19:18-21
These verses predict that there will be an alliance between Egypt, Israel, and Assyria. But there has never been any such alliance, and it's unlikely that it ever will since Assyria no longer exists. 19:23-24.
Hey, get a grip, the least stupid part is incorrect, why do we still argue about this cr-ap when it is the least ridcallous part of his phrophisies?
2007-12-30 16:45:50 · answer #9 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Emanuel was the name mgiven to the messiah from the Book of isaiah.
Isaiah 7:14 (King James Version)
14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
It refers to God taking on human flesh, & walking among man.
2007-12-30 16:08:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋