I have stopped using the words “God” and “Jesus”. It has come as a revelation and blessing to me that these words are inappropriate as names for our Father and His Son. There is a whole “World” in their names Yahweh and Yahshua.<\/p>\n\t
Oddly enough, God uses the name “God” (elohim<\/i>\u00a0in Hebrew,\u00a0theos<\/i>\u00a0in Greek) as His name almost as often He used\u00a0Yahweh<\/i>\u00a0(3848 times versus 5521 times). Yet you tell me that it is inappropriate. I prefer the revelation of God over a man’s revelation of his imagination (Ezekiel 13:2-3;\u00a0Jeremiah 23:16,\u00a025-26).<\/p>\n
And then the name\u00a0Yahshua<\/i>\u00a0(the transliteration of the name Joshua from the Hebrew) is not used at all in the New Testament. The New Testament was written in Greek and the Savior’s name is transliterated as\u00a0Iesous<\/i>. In English, this name is written as Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I have stopped using the words “God” and “Jesus”. It has come as a revelation and blessing to me that these words are inappropriate as names for our Father and His Son. There is a whole “World” in their names Yahweh and Yahshua. Answer: Oddly enough, God uses the name “God” (elohim\u00a0in Hebrew,\u00a0theos\u00a0in Greek)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[346,73,998,76],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-god-the-father","tag-jesus","tag-names","tag-terminology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14214,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-new-testament-was-written-in-hebrew-not-greek\/","url_meta":{"origin":1517,"position":0},"title":"The New Testament was written in Hebrew, not Greek!","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: You seem to teach that the original New Testament was originally written in Greek. 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