How did Christianity start?
The angel of God told Joseph, "...do not fear... to take Mary as your wife... for she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins..." Matthew 1:21Have you thought about whether the name Jesus is found in the books of the "Old Testament:" What is the Hebrew name for God, thy salvation..., ie: simply "Y'shua" (Yehoshua)--according to the Bible and is that "Jesus"...
Steps
- Realize that God is named many differing ways in the Bible. The word "God" is not His name. Many people use Jehovah (Yeho-vah, Y'vah and Yahweh, Y'weh) as a name of God, ie: Hebrew " יהו " - noun Yeho, a reference to YHWH, Yahweh. Another naming of God is "'Savior', 'Salvation', or 'thy Salvation' or ''my Help'' in time of trouble." Hebrew writing/reading was phonetic -- but without vowels the correct pronunciation was passed orally.
- The name Jesus in the Hebrew meaning is "Jehovah the Savior (Y'shua)" according to "Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary" at the verse in Matthew 1:21.
- Look for the name known in English as Jesus and realize that name in Hebrew is "Y'shua" which is a name that is a description of God in the "Old Testament" referring to being saved by "Yeho".
- Search the phrase ==>> thy salvation <<== click to see a list of results and click "Next >" for another page of scripture references, repeatedly -- if you like...
- Count the number of times "thy salvation" (Y'shua) is found (nearly 100 times) in the "Old Testament," -- indicating that "Yeho-shua" is a phrase from beginning to the end of "The Bible" -- was that "Jesus..."
- Consider the definition of Y'shua as literally being "thy Salvation" who according to the "New Testament" turned out to be Jesus (Y'shua) thy Salvation. He is considered by most of Christianity in the doctrine as divine, deity, Son of God, Savior.
- Conclude thy Salvation -- Y'shua... is found in "The Bible" from Genesis to Revelation: " 'I am the Alpha and the Omega', says the Lord God; 'the beginning and the ending', saith the Lord -- which is, and which was, and which is to come -- the Almighty."
- Decide to believe or not that some, many or all of the references to "Savior, thy Salvation" and similar wordings were referring to "The Savior," "The Messiah" and that to Christians thy Salvation is a certain person called "Jesus Christ the Savior" of the world...
Tips
- When Joseph was told by an angel that Mary was carrying the "Savior of the world," Joseph was to call his name Jesus, Savior: in saving them from sin, Yehoshua saved his people, "not" in their sins, but from their sins.. Yehoshua, "Jesus," is the same as "Joshua" (who led the people into the promise) who was called a "type of Christ," Y'shua (Hebrew of Joshua and Jesus), Savior from Yehoshua, Jehovah+saves, ie " יהו ", 'YHWH', + " שוע " - shua.
- The reason for that Y'shua is that He saves from sin being "redeemer," and from the power of sin by His grace.
- "God saves" and "God knows" (judges): “I will therefore remind you, though ye once knew all [such] things, that Y'shua (thy Salvation), having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterward destroy them that believed not (that had no faith in God):”
- In the Old Testament that situation is "The Lord {Yahweh} replied...not one of the men who saw my glory (that God saved from Egypt) and the miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the desert but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times--not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their forefathers."Their children and grandchildren received the promise of salvation... and unto all generations from Yehoshua.
Warnings
- That the uses of Y'shua found in the "Old Testament" is descriptive of the Messiah (the Christ) is absolute, but your belief is by faith as either "Jesus" is or is not the revealed/living "Word of God" as manifested from start to finish in the "Old Testament," Genesis to "New Testament" Revelation...
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