Sunday, 13 September 2009
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THE NAME JESUS
JESUS - Did This Name Derive From the Name Zeus?
By Voy Wilks 9/13/92
True, the name "Jesus" sounds so much like the name Zeus, that we have felt this could not be coincidence: Je-zeus. However, except for the relative sounds, all evidence we have seen up to the present moment seems inconclusive. Now I realize there has been evidence all along which MAY reveal that the name Jesus did NOT derive from the name Zeus. If true, this is good news. *
In the Greek New Testament the savior's name is spelled Ἰησοῦς . When these Greek letters are transferred to English, they are usually represented by the letters, IESOUS. The Greek alphabet, though good in some ways, perhaps, is deficient in translating the Hebrew language. For example, there is no way to indicate the "SH" sound with the Greek letters. For this reason, the Greek Scriptures could not correctly spell the Savior's true name YAHSHUA (or Yahoshua), simply because there were no Greek letters to indicate the "sh" sound; the "s" sound, yes, but not the "sh" sound.
We must keep in mind that the translators of the Septuagint Version (The LXX) were Jewish scholars. This translation was made from the Hebrew Old Testament into the Greek language about 200 or 250 B.C.E. for the benefit of Greek speaking Jews who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. ** It is very significant that in this Greek Old Testament the name of the son of Nun (Joshua), is the very same name as that of the Savior, as written in the Greek New Testament. The names are spelled the same, with identical Greek letters Ἰησοῦς .
Did the Jewish translators from Jerusalem purposely mislead their Egyptian brethren by replacing the name of Israel's greatest ARMY GENERAL with the name of the Greek god, Zeus? If so, why? What reason could they have for doing so? The answer seems certain. The Jewish scholars could have had no reason, no motive, to replace the name Joshua (Yahoshua) with the name Zeus when translating the Hebrew Scriptures into the Greek language.
Therefore, we must conclude that the Jewish scholars made an honest effort to use Greek letters, inadequate though they were, which most closely carried the sound of the name JOSHUA (Iesous). If true, this indicates the name Iesous (Jesus) is NOT derived from the name Zeus.
* Note: Whatever the case, Jesus is not the Savior's name, so let us cease to call on this name. Instead, let us accept transliteration directly from the Hebrew Scriptures so that we can call on the Savior by his true name YAHSHUA (Yahoshua).
** Josephus reported The LXX was translated for the universities of Egypt at the request of Ptolemy, the King of Egypt (Antq. 12.2. 1-15). Perhaps both views are correct. Whatever the case, Greek Versions of the Old Testament Scriptures dating to 100 B.C.E. have been found in the geniza (storage room for worn-out manuscripts) within the Jewish synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt. This indicates that the Jews of that Community did indeed read the Scriptures in the Greek language.
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JESUS IS NOT ZEUS
THE ENGLISH NAME JESUS IS NOT DERIVED
FROM THE NAME OF THE PAGAN GOD ZEUSOTHER SOURCES ON THE NAME "JESUS"
The Name Jesus
The original name of our Saviour was not Jesus or Iesous, but Yahshua. In our Saviour's word, His Father's Name was given to Him. The Father's Name is Yahweh.
Two factors contributed greatly to the substitution and the distortion of our Saviour's Name. The first was the superstitious teaching of the Jews that the Father's Name is not to be uttered and that the Name must be "disguised" outside of the temple of Jerusalem. The second factor was the strong anti-Judaism feeling that prevailed amongst the Gentiles. They wanted a saviour, but not a Jewish one.
According to Worterbuch der Antike, the substitute name can be traced back to the Latin Iesus and the Greek Iesous. Then, it can be traced back to an adaptation of the name of the Greek healing goddess Ieso. The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott, confirm this. To Greeks who venerated a healing goddess Ieso, a saviour Iesous must have been most acceptable, suggests a writer in Philologische Wochenschrift. In spite of attempts to justify the "translating" of the Father's Name and His Son's Name, it cannot be done. A person's name remains the same in all languages.
The father of the Greek goddess Ieso was Asclepius, the deity of healing. The father of Asclepius was Apollo, the great sun-deity. Thus, the name Iesous can be traced back to sun-worship. There is also a relationship to the Egyptian goddess Isis and her son Isu. According to Reallexikon der Agpyptischen Religionsgeschichte, the name of Isis appears in hieroglyphic inscriptions as ESU or ES. Isu and Esu sound exactly like "Jesu" that the Saviour is called in the translated Scriptures of many languages.
Esus was a Gallic deity comparable to the Scandanavian Odin. The Greek abbreviation for Iesous is IHS, which is found on many inscriptions made by the Church during the middle Ages. IHS was the mystery name of Bacchus (Tammuz), another sun-deity. These are a few examples only.
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Here is a quote from Dictionary of Christian Lore and Legend By J. C. J. Metford:
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"It is known that the Greek name endings of sus, seus, and sous (which are phonetic pronunciations for Zeus) were attached by the Greeks to names and geographical areas as a means to give honor to their supreme deity, Zeus. Examples given are: Parnassus, a sacred mountain in Greece: the Greek deity of wine and son of Zeus, Dionysus; the Greek hero of the Trojan war was Odysseus, and the Greek deity of healing was Iesous or the Latin Iesus/Jesus. They also changed the names of the prophets EliYahu (whose name means 'my mighty one is Yah') and Elyesha (whose name means 'my mighty one saves'), to 'Elias' and 'Eliseus' (which means 'my mighty one is Zeus'). This was done so often that it later was the basis for their rules of written grammar which followed the common or vernacular spoken language."
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Up until the First Council of Nicaea, the Roman aristocracy primarily worshiped two Greek gods_Apollo and Zeus_but the great bulk of common people idolized either Julius Caesar or Mithras (The Romanized version of the Persian deity Mithra). Caesar was deified by the Roman Senate after his death (15 March 44 bc) and subsequently venerated as "the Divine Julius". The word "Saviour" was affixed to his name, its literal meaning being "one who sows the seed", i.e., he was a phallic god. Julius Caesar was hailed as "God made manifest and universal Saviour of human life", and his successor Augustus was called the "ancestral God and Saviour of the whole human race" (Man and his Gods, Homer Smith, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1952). Emperor Nero (54-68), whose original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (37-68), was immortalized on his coins as the "Saviour of mankind" (ibid.). The Divine Julius as Roman Saviour and "Father of the Empire" was considered "God" among the Roman rabble for more than 300 years. He was the deity in some Western presbyters' texts, but was not recognized in Eastern or Oriental writings.
Constantine's intention at Nicaea was to create an entirely new god for his empire who would unite all religious factions under one deity. Presbyters were asked to debate and decide who their new god would be. Delegates argued among themselves, expressing personal motive for inclusion of particular writings that promoted the finer traits of their own special deity. Throughout the meeting, howling factions were immersed in heated debates, and the names of 53 gods were tabled for discussion. "As yet, no God had been selected by the council, and so they balloted in order to determine that matter... For one year and five months the balloting lasted..." (God's Book of Eskra, Prof. S.L. MacGuire's translation, Salisbury, 1922, chapter xlviii, paragraphs 36, 41).
At the end of that time, Constantine returned to the gathering to discover that the presbyters had not agreed on a new deity but had balloted down to a short list of five prospects: Caesar, Krishna, Mithra, Horus and Zeus (Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. 325). Constantine was the ruling spirit at Nicaea and he ultimately decided upon a new god for them. To involve British factions, he ruled that the name of the Druid god, Hesus, be joined with the Eastern Saviour-god, Krishna (Krishna is Sanskrit for Christ), and thus Hesus Krishna would be the official name of the new Roman god. A vote was taken and it was with a majority show of hands (161 votes to 157) that both divinities become one God. Following long-standing heathen custom, Constantine used the official gathering and the Roman apotheosis decree to legally deify two deities as one, and did so by democratic consent. A new god was proclaimed and "officially" ratified by Constantine (Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618). That purely political act of deification effectively and legally placed Hesus and Krishna among the Roman gods as one individual composite. That abstraction lent Earthly existence to amalgamated doctrines of the Empire's new religion; and because there was no letter "J" in alphabets until around the ninth century, the name subsequently evolved into "Jesus Christ".
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The Shocking Truth Exposed!'Jesus' may be the name of a Pagan God
Etymology of the name Je-sus
by Paul SidesCould the following graffiti image be of mocking the Messiah being executed on a *PAGAN CROSS as a horse instead of a donkey as many believe? See the links that follow that says the name "Jesus" means 'horse' or 'earth pig'
* A. The word found in the Scriptures is STAUROS. “Stauros denotes, primarily, an ‘upright pale or stake’. On such malefactors were for execution. Both the noun and the verb staruo, ‘to fasten to a stake or pale’ are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed ‘cross’. The shape of the later had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as a symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial letter of his name) in Babylon, Egypt, and adjacent lands. By the middle of the 3rd century A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrine of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches… and were permitted to retain their signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the ‘cross of Christ’.” (W.E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, p.138)
On the walls of the Roman Palatine is a graffito dating to shortly after 200 A.D. It is a drawing of a crucified ass [donkey]; a mockery of a Christian prisoner named Alexamenos who worships Christ (who is the donkey). The writing says, “Alexamenos worships his god.”
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The Names Joshua & Jesus
By Voy Wilks
11/4/92
It has been asked, "Since the Geeks came up with "Iesous" both for Jesus and Joshua, why did the translators translate it as Joshua in the Old Testament and as Jesus in the New? Why weren't they both Joshua or both Jesus?"
The reason for the difference in the identical name (Strong's #3091 in the Hebrew Scriptures, and #2424 in the Greek Scriptures) is a follows:
The King James translators, 54 in number, were assigned seperate portions of the Scriptures on which to work. Naturally, Hebrew scholars were assigned to the Old Testament, while Greek scholars were assigned to the New Testament. When translating the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew into the English language it was relatively easy to bring over the name of the son of Nun as Joshua. Not so when other scholars transliterated this name from the Greek language. It had already been altered. There are no letters in the Greek language to indicate the "sh" sound (as in YahSHua), therefore something was lost when the name Joshua (Yahoshua) was transliterated into the Greek language (Alteration #1). Perhaps "Ieous," as it appears in the Greek New Teatament, was as close as the Greek alphabet would allow. When the Kings men transliterated this name into English as "Iesus," a little more was lost (Alteration #2).
At the time the King James Version appeared (1611), the letter "J" was rarely used in English literature. It was only later that the "I" was dropped from the name "Iesus" and replaced by the letter "J" (Alteration #3). The Hebrew alphabet does not now, nor did it ever, have the letter "J." In fact, all the "J" letter names in our Bib le should really start with the letter "Y."
It is interesting to note that the name Joshua does not appear even once in the King Jmes New Testament. There are two places in which it SHOULD have appeared, but did not. These are Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8. This indicates that the two are really one and the same name. When noticing the content of these two Scriptures, it is obvious that the person being spoken of is Joshua (Yahshua) the son of Nun, not Jesus (Yahshua) the son of Mary. But the Kings translators failed to notice this, it seems.
Check other versions of the New Testament and see that recent translators have made corrections by replacing "Jesus" with "Joshua" in Acts 7:45 & Hebrews 4:8. Take for exaple the James Dunkin Version of 1836, which made these corrections as do most, if not all, other versions. William Tyndale, in his 1534 version of the New Testament (77 years BEFORE the 1611 KJV came off the press, spelled the name slightly different to make a distinction, evidently, between the son of Nun and the son of Mary; Iosue (Acts 7:45; Heb. 4:8), Iesus (Acts 7:55; Heb. 4:14). In the Companion Bible Mr. Bullinger has a notation on Acts 7:45 as well as Hebews 4:8, "Jesus = Joshua."
Please notice that something similar happened to other biblical names. When the Kings scholars translated from the Greek New Testament they came up with different spellings of biblical names (Esaias, Jeremias, etc.) than did those scholars who translated directly from the Hebrew Scriptures (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.). Except for the names Joshua and Jesus, most versions of the Bible have made all biblical names uniform, whether in the Old Testament or the New. Not so, the King James Bible. In it many names are different.
Summary
At least three alterations have occured in the Savior's name: (1) From Hebrew to Greek; (2) From Greek to English, (3) From "I" to "J." Even if the New Testament was originally written in the Greek language, these three alterations have occured.
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