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According to the KJV Bible, the name of God’s Son is Jesus Christ. So why do some now want to change it in some way?

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Is “Jesus” a pagan name? Isn’t the name “Yeshua”, “Yehoshua”, “Yahshua”, or “Yahusha” more accurate?

The New Testament was written in Greek so clearly it was God’s choice to have the name of His Son given to us in Greek, which is ‘Iesous’. The English form is ‘Jesus’.

All the Hebrew and Aramaic names for Jesus contain an ‘h’ which Greek cannot represent due to the rules of its language and alphabet. “Iesous” (pronounced yay-soos) is the Greek spelling. This corresponds precisely to “Yeshua” which has no ‘h’ in the middle – only an ‘sh’ which was one letter [‘shin’] in Hebrew/Aramaic. Greek has no “sh” letter in its alphabet, so its spelling MUST use ‘s’ [sigma].

There are dangers in this for a number of reasons, not the least of which this can be used as a ruse to draw people into a cult that does not teach sound doctrine. It is well known that numerous variations in the name of Jesus have caused divisions and arguments between believers about which variation of the name of Jesus is correct. This is why scripture itself repeatedly tells us to keep to the Gospel given once to the saints and that means in every respect with no exceptions such as sacred names.

There doesn’t seem to be any harm in using the Hebrew version of the name of Jesus but we should be extremely careful not to be drawn into believing that this gives us some type of special power or authority, or provides a doorway to some type of special treatment or knowledge from God, or somehow feeds our sinful carnal pride.

Some of those names contain “Yah”, an abbreviation of the divine tetragrammation, YHWH or Yahweh.  If this was important or there was some magic in this, God would have told us so. Or else the New Testament would all have been written in Hebrew or Aramaic.

At the time of the New Testament church in the first century A.D., Hellenism had greatly influenced and changed the people and culture of Judea. Greek, not Hebrew, was the commonly used language of Palestine during the rule of the Roman Empire.

Greek was the leading written and spoken language of the eastern Mediterranean world when Rome ruled the world during the New Testament period, and it remained the dominant language until long after the time the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 A.D.

As the apostles and evangelists in the early Christian church aimed to reach as wide an audience as possible, they wrote their inspired words in Greek rather than Aramaic, Hebrew or some other language.

Iesous is a perfectly acceptable and understandable Greek rendering of the Hebrew Yeshua/Yehoshua. The name Jesus isn’t wrong or ‘pagan’ —  it’s just a different language.

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