His Name!!!!!

His name!!!!

His name is Jesus Christ so I have been told. I have been calling on the name Jesus for many years. When I pray I say ' in Jesus name amen. 

I have heard before and now I find myself getting a bit confused about the name of God's begotten son Jesus Christ. I have been watching videos on YouTube of other Christians giving information to the fact that Jesus name is not Jesus because there was no letter J in the alphabet before a certain period. These videos also claim that earlier Christians did not know the name Jesus because it simply did not exist. 

So I decided to do some checking around on the Internet. I felt I needed to check this out because I found myself being confused in my prayers as to what to call my Lord and savior. I was being very bothered by this because I felt that these people were making a big deal about Jesus name and the letter J. I was very willing to defend the name Jesus because it is what I know. I could not understand why they were not concerned with the other names in the bible which also had the letter J in it. 

I tried to look up all the names of the prophets which had the letter J in them.  Jonah, Joel, Jeremiah, John, James,  Elijah, Jeconiah king of Juda, The people of Juda, Jericho the city, Jehovah God, John the baptist, Jacob, Joseph, Joshua, Jerusalem the city, I'm sure I missed one but I wondered should I not call these name with the J sound and replace it with the original Y from the Hebrew text. I thought this is a bit too much and got upset all over again thinking about this. 

What I know is that I speak the English language and Jesus Christ is the name we use in the English language and God is a God of all languages. The more I thought and read about this I realized that I may be wrong. Gods name and his sons name were changed because earlier Christians thought that Gods name was too holy to be repeated by man so it got replaced. I just recently came across his name Yeshua. I have heard it in songs and I have heard it elsewhere. On this website  www. Whatdoesyeshuamean.com Yeshua  means salvation in Hebrew. 

There is something interesting which takes place in my mind when I say the name Yeshua. I become a little hesitant and want to cry. (The name Yeshua takes me to the cross at the moment when they pierced his side like in the movie passion of the Christ, however instead of water gushing from his side I see rain like a light summer rain and the sun shining). 

I copied this from the Website above, 

The name “Jesus” comes from the Latin Iesus, which comes from an Anglicized form of the Greek name Yesous. What this means  is that the Greek name Yesous was altered as it was adopted by the English language.  In the 1st century the Greek name Yesous represented the Hebrew name Yeshua, which was a shortened form of the Hebrew name Yehoshua.   Despite claims to the contrary, there is no historical or linguistic basis in any biblical texts for other modern forms of the name Yeshua, such as Yahshua, Yahushua, Yeshu, or Y’shua.  The name ‘Jesus’ did not yet exist during the the time that Jesus Christ was on Earth, approximately 4 BC to 29 or 34 AD.  It did not come into existence until it was configured by the Council of Nicea of the Roman Catholic Church in the 4th century.

I am not hoping to cause confusion but I hope to spread the truth. God Bless