Intro to Yeshua, part 2
In the previous post I forgot to discuss a very important aspect about our Savior, Jesus, Yeshua.
"Yeshua", His name, definitely strongly identifies Jesus, Yeshua, as being specifically from the Jewish faith as preserved by the Jewish people and religion.
The name strongly connects Him with Yahweh, the God of the Jews. (One of the main themes of the "old testament" of the Christian Bible is that Yahweh revealed Himself to Abraham [spoke to Abraham and made His presence known to Abraham and specifically told Abraham that He, God, would work with Abraham's descendents to bring God's good will on this Earth. GENESIS 12:2&3.] God didn't call Himself Yahweh then, when He was talking to Abraham. I guess that God (Yahweh) and Abraham both knew that Abraham knew that he was talking to the one real, true God that could really talk back to a person who called on Him and could actually do things. Later, 14 generations later, God (Yahweh) called on Moses to be God's man on the ground, God's spokesman, or agent, to rescue Abraham's descendents who were in Egypt being oppressed. Moses said to God, "How will they know you sent me? Who should I say sent me to help them?" God (Yahweh) told Moses to tell them "Yahweh" , meaning "I am, I was and I will be", had sent you (Moses) to them.
We Christians generally call our Creator "God". God is actually a generic, universal name used by many religions.
In this 21st century, we have to discuss again whether it is important to actually specify that when we say "God", we mean our Creator God who has revealed Himself and identified Himself as the God of Abraham and the Jews.
And revealed Himself specifically in the Jewish and Christian Bible.
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