Is Jesus a name or a title and where did it come from?
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Yeshua is the name called Jesus today.\nChrist (Kristos)is the title referring to the saviour.
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Xmas\nThis abbreviation for Christmas is of Greek origin. The word for Christ in Greek is Xristos. During the 16th century, Europeans began using the first initial of Christ's name, "X" in place of the word Christ in Christmas as a shorthand form of the word. Although the early Christians understood that X stood for Christ's name, later Christians who did not understand the Greek language mistook "Xmas" as a sign of disrespect
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His real name was Yeshua ben Yosef (Jesus/ Joshua son of Joseph) Yeshua was a quite common name at that time and is the name of other biblical characters but translates differently each time\n\nOK Joe... Jesus' name was also translated Joshua, like the spy/ leader of the Israelites and another name but I confuse which is a translation of Yehudah and which is Yeshua-- I do know Yehudah was Judah and James but I don't remember what Jude and Judas were
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Jesus is more than a man, more than an angel, but less than Almighty God. Jesus is God's firstborn Son, and the King of God's Kingdom. Here are some other special titles that Jesus has:\n\n(Matthew 16:16) Peter said: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God\n\n(John 1:41) “We have found the Messiah” (which means, when translated, Christ)\n\n(Revelation 19:13) The name he [Jesus] is called is The Word [Logos] of God.\n\n\nHere are some additional Scriptures that help clarify that Jesus is different from Almighty God:\n\n(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah\n\n(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him\n\n(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation\n\n(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.\n\n(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God\n\n(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God\n\n(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth\n\n(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak\n\n(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am\n\n(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him\n\n(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father\n\n(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God\n\n(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and YOUR Father and to my God and YOUR God.
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Because there is power in the name of Jesus, and there is power in the title of God.
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I'm not sure when that originated.  It's just in some editions, not all of them and it's just to make finding what Jesus said a little easier.\n\nI think there are some people who actually believe that the only parts of the Bible that are important are Jesus' words.  Maybe that's how it started.
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many. im guessing my real you mean proper. \nwell he's called the \ngreat I Am\nLord of Lords\nEmmanuel\nAlpha and Omega\nSavior\nMessiah\nRedeemer\nPrince of Peace\n\nNames for Jesus or God work because they are one in the same\n\nthe list goes on and on\nbut his real name is also God.\nthats why it is capitalized, because it is a name and not just a label of diety
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I'm sorry to have to take issue with the rabbi, but "John" is derived from Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning "Yahweh has been gracious [or 'has shown favor']." (The German name Johann is a bit closer to the original.)   It is NOT the same name as "Jonathan" (except for those who in more recent times have created the name "Jon" AS a nickname for Jonathan).  \n\nNote that "Jo" is not "God" (for which the Hebrew uses El or the "plural of majesty", "Elohim").  It is from "Ja/Yah/Yahu", the short form of the personal name of God in Hebrew (widely thought to be "Yahweh", traditionally considered very sacred and so replaced by "the LORD" [Hebrew, "Adonai"] to avoid speaking it).\n\nA related Hebrew name in that of the prophet Samuel's mother - "Hannah" [ḥānā], "gracious"(see 1 Samuel 1-2).  The name John also points to one of the most important proclamations of the Old Testament, that the LORD (Yahweh) is a "gracious" God who has shown his people grace/favor (see especially Exodus 34:6, whose expressions are echoed in many other places).  \n\nIncidentally, Hebrew names like Jonathan ["Yahweh has given"] and John ["Yahweh has been gracious"], and many others are "sentence names".  They make some confessional statement about God, and/or may be related to the circumstances of the child's birth.  These two names, for instance, would be very appropriate for a LONG-awaited child.  It is, in fact, precisely the circumstance of the birth of John the Baptist to the elderly Zechariah and Elizabeth [Luke 1]\n\n------------------\n\n"William" (as already noted) is originally a Germanic name, meaning something like "valiant protector".  Its popularity in English owed much to "William the Conqueror" (1066).  Actually, the Conqueror's name (and so our "William") does NOT come directly from the Germanic form of the name (which would be "Wilhelm")but from the Norman French form (from Old French) Guillaume.   Also, the "helm" part is related to the word "helmet" and might more literally refer to that object used for protection rather than just the abstract idea of protection.   At any rate, it is a name given to a warrior-leader who is regarded as the helmet/protection of a group of people.\n\nThe addition of an -s to form a surname is a common practice in English to indicate a "DESCENDANT of William" (In other words, adding an 's' to form a surname is essentially the same as adding "son" as in "Williamson", etc.)
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The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ") (see Labarum), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ.\n\nAs origins of the word go largely unnoticed by the larger public, many people believe that the term is part of an effort to "take Christ out of Christmas" or to literally "cross out Christ"; it is also seen as evidence of the secularization of Christmas or a vehicle for pushing political correctness, or as a symptom of the commercialization of the holiday (as the abbreviation has long been used by retailers). This notion is greatly disputed.\n\nThe occasionally seen belief that the "X" represents the cross Christ was crucified on has no basis in fact; St Andrew's Cross is X-shaped, but Christ's cross was probably shaped like a T or a †. Indeed, X-as-chi was associated with Christ long before X-as-cross could be. The use of X as an abbreviation for "cross" in modern abbreviated writing (e.g. "Kings X" for "Kings Cross") may have reinforced this assumption.\n\nIn ancient Christian art χ and χρ are abbreviations for Christ's name. In many manuscripts of the New Testament and icons, X is an abbreviation for Christos, as is XC (the first and last letters in Greek, using the lunate sigma); compare IC for Jesus in Greek. The Oxford English Dictionary documents the use of this abbreviation back to 1551, 50 years before the first English colonists came to North America and 60 years before the King James Version of the Bible was completed. At the same time, Xian and Xianity were in frequent use as abbreviations of "Christian" and "Christianity"; and nowadays still are sometimes so used, but much less than "Xmas". The proper names containing the name "Christ" other than aforementioned are rarely abbreviated in this way (e.g. Hayden Xensen for the actor name "Hayden Christensen").\n\nThis apparent usage of "X" to spell the syllable "kris" (rather than "ks") has extended to "xtal" for "crystal", and on florists' signs "xant" for "chrysanthemum" (though these words are not etymologically related to "Christ"; "crystal" comes from a Greek word meaning "ice", and "chrysanthemum" from Greek words meaning "golden flower", while "Christ" comes from a Greek word meaning "anointed").\n\nIn the animated television show Futurama, which is set in the 31st century, Xmas is the official name for the day formerly known as Christmas (which has become an "archaic pronunciation").
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YES\n\nIt means it is made up to try to make Jesus seem more than a the son of a carpenter.\n\nWithout that the bible wouldn't be much of a novel would it
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To answer this question, we need to go back to the tetragrammaton, YHWH.\n\nThese were the letters used to designate the Divine Name.  They appeared in the bible more than 6,000 times in the Old Testament alone.  The exact pronunciation has been lost, so we don't know exactly how it's pronounced.  To be fair, most of the original pronunications have been lost and all the pronunciations we have today are what they have evolved into.  With that said, the Common pronunciation of YHWH is Yahweh in Hebrew, Yah for short.  There are other pronunciations such as Yeowha, Yevah, Yeohwah, etc.\n\nThe Common English translation is Jehovah.  This name can be seen in many or the names of the bible.  EliJAH, AdoniJAH, etc.  There are many debates about the use of either name, and more people seem to prefer Yahweh to Jehovah, but my personal believe is that Yahweh is incompatable with the English translated names.  If we use the Hebrew Yahweh, then it stands to reason that we should use the Hebrew for the other names as well.\n\nJesus was NOT Jesus name in the bible.  At least, not his original name.  Jesus pertains to the son.  The NT was written in Greek, and his name was pronounced roughly Ieosous.  Christ was proncounced Christos.  Jesus is actually a degredation of the the name from Greek to our modern day English.  Yeshua, also appropriately pronounced Yehoshua, are the Hebrew forms of Ieosous, or Jesus, and are appropriately translated into Joshua.  This name means literally "Jehovah is Salvation," and is used to draw attention back to Jehovah the Supreme Being.\n\nSo Jehovah is God, Jesus is the son.  Jesus was probably there during the time the Proverbs were written, but it was most likely Jehovah who was being refered to.
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jesus never had a father. how can he be called son of a man. i dont know from where ever you got this info, it is wrong
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No,I'm fine with using Jesus' name in public.....But I have found that when I say Jesus'name,other people get very uncomfortable.......I always wondered why,I think it's because Jesus'name invokes feelings of not living right and being on the wrong path away from GOD in people.\n\nThis just proves to me that Jesus is very real,and very much Alive!
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Jesus is the son of God. God is a separate personage, who resides in heaven now and resided in heaven when Jesus walked the earth. God is not "3-in-1," as some claim, but three separate entities: God the Father, Jesus the Christ, and the Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit). Three entities, of One Mind, comprise the Godhead.\n\nNote that Christ is a title, not a part of a name, and means "the anointed one." (The word Messiah also means "the anointed one," but the word is in a different language.)
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Tradition.  The translation from the original Greek to Latin and then to English came up with "Jesus."  Even the newer translations which go back to the oldest preserved texts still seem to use the name, even when the translators know better.\nHow do expect this to change if you have to tell millions of worshipers that they have been mispronouncing the name for centuries?  They will always come up with some lame excuse to explain their own ignorance about the topic.
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The fact that a man named Jesus, from Nazareth was crucified under a Roman ruler named Pontius Pilot is one of the best attested to facts in ancient history.  \n\nReligious historians - such as Luke, the doctor, who's testment can be read in any commonly circulated version of the Christian Bible (The Gospel of Luke) -- as well as secular historians like the Roman historian Tactitus all agree on this fact.  They differ in how they choose to understand Jesus' death on the cross -- where a religous historian like Luke would say that Jesus was the "messiah" (the Christ, of Jewish Prophesy) and the son of God, Tacitus, refers to him simply as a nussaince and the originator of a "mischevious superstition".  \n\nSee below for more info.
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The Bible's title derives from the word 'ta biblia' =the books. (The word 'Biblia' is used in Hungarian too...:) It is called so because the Bible consists of several books, e.g. the five books of Moses, the Book of Daniel, etc.