Comments on: Christ or Messiah https://parables.blog/christ-or-messiah/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:37:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Unknown https://parables.blog/christ-or-messiah/#comment-223 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:36:54 +0000 #comment-223 Hi Joseph,
The author has made many interesting points, and I agree with almost everything.
Only on point #14 he makes a serious mistake about the initial "J" from Iesous as sounded like Yeshua in most European languages.
It is most definitely NOT pronounced like Yeshua in Spanish. "Jesús" is pronounced with the same sound as in "Bach", a sound not found in English, but which exists (or something similar) in Hebrew in the final sound of Mashiach, which we in Spanish-speaking countries transliterate as Mashíaj.
In Italian, it's Gesù, and the initial sound sounds like the initial sound of English "John".
In Portuguese, Jesus, which, if my ear is not misleading me, it's again the "John" sound.
Still, this doesn't invalidate the rest of the arguments.

Skip, if we start becoming so paranoid about the devil's power to twist absolutely everything, where do we stop? Have the doors of Hades prevailed against the true church? I believe the Bible is inerrant in its original language and copies, but that translations contain mistakes, and fair enough, perhaps some of the manuscripts we have, which are copies of the original ones, may contain mistakes or ungodly additions and deletions. Joseph has written a lot about this, and has also written a great book exposing the Hebrew Roots movement.

Ultimately, I trust God's promise that He would not leave us orphans. We have the Holy Spirit. We should trust Him. The problem is, we tend to trust OUR reasoning, coated with traditions of men who have agreed against God on many things. But the fact that the "church" has believed lots of lies doesn't mean people in the Hebrew Roots camp fare any better!

Ultimately, it's the "true church", the true seekers, the worshipers in spirit and truth, who will get to know the truth that will set them free. Not the masses who want shortcuts and are only in it for the loaves and fishes.

May the Lord open our eyes and rebuke/exhort/tear us apart/burn us in His holy consuming fire until we finally get that it's not about us at all, but about His Son, whether we call Him Messiah or Yeshua/Jesus.

]]> By: Skip https://parables.blog/christ-or-messiah/#comment-222 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:43:21 +0000 #comment-222 While I do not possess a doctorate degree, or a masters degree, or any such academic honor, and I do not fluently read or speak any second language, I am absolutely certain in my spirit and mind that the pastor who wrote the article that was quoted here, has dangerously underestimated the power of deception that Satan has been allowed to exercise in this world through the end of this age.

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