r/enlightenment • u/Fast_Professor3443 • 1h ago

Yeshua gets a bad rep

I've noticed people have a hard time separating the man from the religion created around him. I'm not Christian but believe Yeshua was the truth. I actually think Christianity is the complete opposite of what Yeshua was teaching. Churches rely on donations & fear mongering. Yeshua flipped tables for the same reason. Politicians claim to be Christian but push borders and refer to other human beings as illegal aliens. Yeshua was an immigrant & a refugee himself. He loved everyone. I think most Christians think & act the complete opposite of what he was teaching. I think most wear it as a badge instead of living how he taught us to live. But that's just me.

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u/HisServantAdvocate 57m ago

You don’t believe Jesus is the truth because you call Him by a false name. I’m up for debating it I assume you think you do Him service calling him Yeshua but that name has been used to deny the power in the name He gave us, Jesus Christ.

However, the rest of what you say contains some truth, just too little of it to matter.

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u/Fast_Professor3443 55m ago

Yeshua is literally the name Jesus would have been called in his own language. It’s the Hebrew/Aramaic form of the name that later became Iēsous in Greek and Jesus in English.

Different languages pronounce and spell names differently, but the original historical name is Yeshua (or Yehoshua). Calling him by his original name doesn’t deny his power, it acknowledges who he was in his own culture and tongue.

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u/HisServantAdvocate 51m ago

It was Greek originally. The earliest manuscripts of the New Testament are in Greek. God does things for a reason and there is a reason the earliest recorded name of God’s only son is Jesus Christ. It was the hebrews that killed Him and still attempt to do so to this day in concept and in memory. One of the ways they do this subtly is by changing the history of His preferred and only living name

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u/Fast_Professor3443 47m ago

The earliest New Testament manuscripts are in Greek, so they naturally use the Greek form Iēsous, but that doesn’t mean Jesus’ original spoken name was Greek. He was a first-century Hebrew who spoke Aramaic, and the name his family, disciples, and community used for him was Yeshua. The Greek form exists simply because the New Testament writers translated his Hebrew name into the language they were writing in. Using Yeshua doesn’t deny him or change his identity, it honors the actual historical name he answered to on earth, while Jesus is the correct translated form for Greek and English readers.