JESUS’ NAME

Hugh Fogelman

 

Jesus’ birth name was Yeshua ben Joseph. This means the Hebrew name of the son of Joseph the carpenter was Joshua.  If there had been birth certificates 2,000 years ago, the name recorded on Jesus’ certificate would have been “Joshua.”

 

What is disturbing, something Christians overlook, is Luke wrote “when the eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel” (Luke 2:21). Think about it – think of the scene–the Jewish Mary and the Jewish Joseph take the Jewish baby to be circumcised. And they named him Jesus, a pagan name? That is not logical. Mary and Joseph would have named him Yeshua (Joshua), not the pagan Greek name. Webster’s Dictionary defines Pagan”

 

(1) a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim.

(2) a person who has no religion.

The footnote says; “pagan specifically refers to one of the ancient polytheistic people, especially the Greeks and Romans.

 

Paul, wrote he would gladly become a servant of any and all to win them to Christ, “And unto the Jew I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to them that are under the law (the Torah), as under the law that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law (the Gentiles), I might gain them that are without law; to the weak, I became weak that I may gain them” (l Corinthians 9:20-22). In Acts of the Apostles and Paul’s own letters, Paul shows that he was willing to distort the truth. “If through my lies God’s truth abounds to His glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?” (Romans 3:7) “In every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Jesus is proclaimed and in that I rejoice”. (Philippians 1:18) Sounds like a modern politician, or a car salesman, the guy is a self-proclaimed liar. He says whatever the people want to hear!

 

Early Christianity picked up on Paul lies and saw lying helped to convert gullible pagans to their new religion. Today, Christianity follows the teachings of Paul and uses every dishonest trick to convert gullible Jews. Using Paul’s tactic, when talking to a Jew, the Christian cult, Jews for Jesus remembered; “And unto the Jew I became as a Jew, that I may gain the Jews; to them that are under the law (the Torah) ” (l Corinthians 9:20-22). The Cult knows that the word Jesus has a negative association for the Jew, so they always refer him as Yeshua.

 

Christians try to have it both ways, depending to whom they are talking, they will call Jesus Yeshua to Jews, trying to make him appear Jewish - and Jesus to everyone else making him appear by his familiar pagan Greek name. How conveniently these missionaries forget that the Gospel of John tried to separate the pagan Jesus from those Jews and Judaism.

 

On the lighter side, all this is really very simply explained, like most of the Christian bible discrepancies.

According to Christians, Jesus’ name was supposed to be Immanuel as it was foretold by the prophets and recorded in the Christian bible―Isaiah 7.14 “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel” But the birth certificate got screwed up because Mary wrote Immanuel on the birth certificate and somewhere along the line it got mixed up.

 

I heard that it was confused with a Hispanic mother's newborn whose name was Jesus, just like my gardener. Go figure! Somewhere in the world there was a Hispanic kid with the moniker "Immanuel" whose mother kept calling "him" Jesus.

 


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