The Bible doesn't instruct to pray to Jesus

[LoveYeshua]

Not really though, many consider Jesus' Name to be Jehosuah. I've heard other forms also. It's all guesswork, meanwhile, we have inspired Scritpure to tell us.

Much love!

The man we call Joshua in English has the Hebrew name:

יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshua)

In later Hebrew, especially after the exile, this was commonly shortened to:

יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua)

For example, in books like Ezra and Nehemiah, the high priest Jeshua is actually Yeshua in Hebrew.

 

[marks]

The man we call Joshua in English has the Hebrew name:

יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshua)

In later Hebrew, especially after the exile, this was commonly shortened to:

יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua)

For example, in books like Ezra and Nehemiah, the high priest Jeshua is actually Yeshua in Hebrew.

Yes, I understand. That doesn't change the fact that the inspired Scriptures call Him 'Iesous. God could have inspired them to write other names, but He gave this Name, Jesus, and declared it to be the only Name by which men must be saved.

Regarding "Jeshua" and "Yeshua", my understanding is that Hebrew doesn't have a "soft G" sound. So that while we'd say Joshua, they would say Yeshua, no "J" sound. Jacov would be Yacov, Benjamin would be Benyamin, like that.

Much love!

 

[David in NJ]

It's Jesus.

You shall call His Name Jesus . . . said the angel.

The angel spoke English to the little Jewish girl named Mary?

How did Mary learn the English language to understand the angel?

 

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The angel spoke English to the little Jewish girl named Mary?

How did Mary learn the English language to understand the angel?

'Iesous

 

[LoveYeshua]

'Iesous

YESHUA is his name....we can do this all night.... lol

just a note: names are so important that the Jews of old have hidden the true name of GOD, so we would nor desecrate it or use it in vain and break a Commandment. We have YHWH in some bibles but the vowels are missing, I suspect the head of religious Jewish groups have the full name but they wont tell anyone...in some bibles like the one I use in french they also write YAHWEH but is this the correct form? we will know one day soon.

 

[Wick Stick]

That Name is Jesus, from the Greek 'Iesous. Yeshua is what some men presume Jesus may have been called, but it's not Bible.

In the earliest manuscripts, the name is usually abbreviated to just ΙΣ or ΙΥ.

Also, that form of abbreviation is used primarily for the names of deities.

 

[David in NJ]

'Iesous

The angel Gabriel spoke Greek to Mary?

How would you know?

 

[Anchorite]

i give praise to the Lord Jesus Christ = everyday

What do you and @Anchorite have against Yeshua HaMashiach?

I do not speak Hebrew or Aramaic, so I do not call Jesus by His name in Hebrew or Aramaic.

I grew up on hymns. In the hymn books, the Savior’s name is always given as Jesus, not Yeshua.

In my King James, NLT, ESV, and other versions of the Bible in my home library, His name is Jesus.

When I witness to people, I talk about Jesus. They would not know what I meant if I said Yeshua.

 

[David in NJ]

I do not speak Hebrew or Aramaic, so I do not call Jesus by His name in Hebrew or Aramaic.

I grew up on hymns. In the hymn books, the Savior’s name is always given as Jesus, not Yeshua.

In my King James, NLT, ESV, and other versions of the Bible in my home library, His name is Jesus.

When I witness to people, I talk about Jesus. They would not know what I meant if I said Yeshua.

Me too

i also speak to Jewish people about the LORD and when i do i use the name Yeshua HaMashiach

Do you think i'm being disrespectful to the English name 'Jesus' for doing that?

 

[PS95]

Directly addressing someone isn't how prayer is defined in the Bible though. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of instances in which others are called upon or directly addressed in the Bible so that doesn't really give the idea that Stephen "prayed" to Jesus. Where does the Bible ever instruct anyone to "Pray to Jesus?"

First of all, with regard to Stephen praying to Jesus in Acts 7-
They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” 60Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” Having said this, he fell asleep.

Only someone with a preconceived agenda would say that Stephen did not pray to Jesus there. Of course, he did. The word, "called" "epikaloumenon in Greek means to invoke.
It is the same word used in Romans 10:13 --For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
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-- Secondly, John 14:14 Jesus clearly said that not only can we ask Him things, but He is the one who answers.
“If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

This already points to the glory referred to in John 14:13,
“Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

1437 [e] 14 ean 14 ἐάν 14 If 14 Conj​

5100 [e] ti τι anything IPro-ANS​

154 [e] aitēsēte αἰτήσητέ you ask V-ASA-2P​

1473 [e] me με me PPro-A1S​

1722 [e] en ἐν in Prep​

3588 [e] tō τῷ the Art-DNS​

3686 [e] onomati ὀνόματί name N-DNS​

1473 [e] mou μου , of me PPro-G1S​

1473 [e] egō ἐγὼ I PPro-N1S​

4160 [e] poiēsō ποιήσω . will do [it] V-FIA-1S​

This already points to the glory referred to in John 14:13,
“Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 15:16; John 16:23 Compare.
We either accept Jesus as who He says He is, or fight against Him and His own words.

1 John 5
11And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12He who has the Son has [d]life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, [e]and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
14Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

2 Corinthians 12-

7Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 8Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

[Wick Stick]

We have YHWH in some bibles but the vowels are missing,

The vowels aren't missing. You're talking about the niqqud - the diacritical marks added to the Hebrew language by the Masoretes roughly 2,000 years after the Old Testament was originally written. They aren't original to the text, so nothing is missing.

The Masoretes added the niqqud to remove ambiguity from the text... specifically, to eliminate Christian readings of the text. You shouldn't trust those guys.

in some bibles like the one I use in french they also write YAHWEH but is this the correct form? we will know one day soon.

Fairly confident that it isn't. I don't know the correct pronunciation, but I know a little Hebrew grammar. The Y is a prefix onto H1961 or H1933 (same root, meaning exist), so it probably says ye- rather than yah.

The letter H says Hay by default and can also say Ay. You can make it say Hoe or Hee but it doesn't become -aH or -oH.

Other than that... H and W can be vowels or consonants, and each has 2 sounds as a consonant, so there are a lot of potential variants.

 

[PS95]

Ethelbert, there is one Name given in the Bible for our Savior, Jesus. Why do you refuse His given Name?

Why would you argue over this? Yeshua is fine, so is Yehoshua, and so is Jesus.
He knows who He is, and He knows if we know Him and He knows who we call on.
Be at peace.

 

[Runningman]

No it wasn't an instruction, it was demonstration. Stephen prayed to the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven. He addressed Jesus in heaven making petition of Him.

If that's not prayer . . . what is?

Much love!

I wouldn't say that would be a prayer since speaking to someone in heaven isn't necessarily what defines a prayer. For example, Apostle John still on earth spoke to an elder in heaven in his vision in Revelation 7:13,14. Stephen, on earth, in his vision of Jesus, spoke to someone in heaven too. So we can see that just speaking to someone in heaven isn't automatically a prayer or else one could say John way praying to an elder. So I still maintain that isn't a demonstration of praying to Jesus in Acts 7.

 

[Runningman]

You seem to think that praying is some formal ritualistic behavior, but actually prayer is simply talking to God.

Where in the Bible is prayer defined, as you understand it?

When the martyr Stephen called upon Jesus, if he wasn’t praying, what was he doing?

He was just calling out to Jesus or addressing Jesus. Just addressing someone isn't a prayer is it?

Here's a question, why does the word "pray" or "prayer" never appear in the Bible when they wrote about people speaking to Jesus?