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1 | God's Name in the New Testament | NT general Archive 1 | shaunswoods | 133311 | ||
Hello, Mr Moran. I appreciate your attention to this topic. The post about all the latin versions threw me for a bit of a loop. Okay, here's my problem. I know that the name Jesus means "Yah-saves", or "Yah is my salvation," and is also transliterated as Joshua. It is also transliterated as Isaiah, though most people don't know that. But "Yah saves" is a different name than "YHWH" which is specifically used to distinctivly seperate the God of Israel (and the Bible) from all other false gods. The use of the word "Lord" is something that keeps coming up. "Lord" means master, and those who were copying the Bible would take away God's Name and add "LORD" in reverence to His Name and His third Commandment. (In hebrew, this word is "ADONAI"). For those following these posts who don't know, "LORD" in all caps denotes a place in scripture where His Name was originally intended. "Lord" with only the first, if any, letter capitalized denotes a place in scripture where the word "master" was intended. Over 3,000 times in the Old Testament God's Name is used, but not once in the New Testament. If scripture is inspired, and I would vehemently defend that position, that would mean God chose the words to use. He had no qualms about using His Name in the Old Testament. So why isn't His Name in the New Testament? The underlying problem here is the concept of "theos" and "kurios" in koine greek. In a pagan society, such as the 1st century Roman Empire, "theos" referred to that all encompassing force that is god, or the divine. Think "the force" of Star Wars. This is also the present day concept of new-agers and far-eastern mysticism. "Kurios" simply means master, as I stated previously. To put the two terms together, in 1st century Rome, would infer not the God of the Hebrews, but their concept of the "master god." To anyone who knows anything about Greek and Roman mythology, that would infer zeus or appollo. The New Testament is not speaking of zeus/appollo. This is a difficult topic to conquer, but we've been told in scripture that we are not to be ignorant, so we can find an answer. Pray that this question can be answered. Thank You, Shaun. |
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