Reflections

6 responses to “A Question to my Readers”

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   Jesse Califf

   Dec 5, 2023 at 2:37 pm

   His Hebrew name “yeshua” is derived from the verb “yasha”, meaning “to save”, so his name means something like “Yahweh is salvation.”

   The Greek name “Christ” is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word for Messiah meaning “Annointed One”, denoting God’s chosen servant, basically.

   Karl Barth, for instance, has pointed out how his name “Jesus Christ” mimics the pattern of the Hebrew Bible followed by the Greek Bible, the Hebrew name following the Greek, and that there is a trajectory of the Hebrew tradition going out into the Gentile (Greek) world; the story of the Bible, the story of Jesus, is rooted in the Hebrew language but goes out into the Gentile languages (Greek).

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      Steven Colborne

      Dec 21, 2023 at 3:22 pm

      Thank you so much for these insights, Jesse! Karl Barth’s observations are interesting and thought-provoking!

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   Gregg

   Dec 6, 2023 at 3:55 am

   Jesus comes from yeshua, a Hebrew name which comes from the Sanskrit jai shiva. Both yeshua and jai shiva symbolise the absolute, christ or shiva consciousness, which means the same. Jesus, yeshua or shiva, represent the state of death of the ego, the absolute consciousness

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      Steven Colborne

      Dec 21, 2023 at 3:23 pm

      Absolutely fascinating, Gregg. Thank you, brother! Can you please explain the connection between Jesus Christ, Shiva, and Krishna for me?

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   Theoretical Philosophy – (Rev.) Romulus C Kulik

   Dec 6, 2023 at 12:56 pm

   Jesus is the English version of the “Latin Iesus, from Greek Iēsous, from a late Hebrew or Aramaic analogous formation based on Yĕhōšûă‘ ‘Joshua” which means “God saves”.
   Christ is the English version of the “Old English Crīst, from Latin Christus, from Greek Khristos, noun use of an adjective meaning ‘anointed’, from khriein ‘anoint’, translating Hebrew māšīaḥ ‘Messiah’”.
   A rather paraphrased translation of the original languages would be “God’s Anointed Saves”.
   Hope it makes sense.

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      Steven Colborne

      Dec 21, 2023 at 3:27 pm

      Absolute genius, Reverend. Thank you!

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