Should Christans Call Upon the Name of Jesus or Jehovah?

I agree that when ever we properly call upon the name of Jesus (see: Matthew 7:15-24) we are also calling upon the name of the God and Father of Jesus. If, however, the name Jesus (Joshua, Jeshua) means "Jehovah who saves", this cannot mean that Jesus is Jehovah, otherwise, to be consistent, we would have to reason that everyone in the scriptures who bears this name must also be Jehovah.

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See "The Name of Messiah"
www.rlbible.com/jesus/?p=54

I do agree that the Father, the only true God is not the Son, that the Son is not the only true God, his Father. Jesus is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. -- John 17:3.

I also agree that the person of the only true God, the Father of Jesus, is greater than the Son. The Son is not the Most High, Yahweh.

The default reasoning is, therefore, that Jesus is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but rather the the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob sent His Son.


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Yahweh is the name of only the God and Father of Lord Jesus Christ.



I have no reason to add such a thought to the Bible.



I have no reason to add to the Bible that Yahweh is three persons.

While the Bible does identify the Father as Yahweh, and that the Holy Spirit belongs to Yahweh (Isaiah 61:1; Ephesians 4:3), I have no scriptural reason to imagine, assume and add to the scritpures that Jesus is Yahweh the Son. There is but one Yahweh, and that one Yahweh is He would anointed and sent His Son as the prophet like Moses. -- Exodus 3:14,15; Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Isaiah 61:1; John 17:3; Acts 3:13-26; Hebrews 1:1,2.

Since, in the Bible, Yahweh never once reveals Himself as being more than one person, and since He is always revealed as though one person, there is no need to add to the Bible that He is more than one person.

Since the default reasoning is that Yahweh is only one person, there would be no reason for any scritpure to say "Yahweh is only the person of the Father."

Let me clarify to you, maybe you have a misunderstanding on what we believed.



I have then understood you correctly; I still have no scriptural reason, however, to use the spirit of human imagination so as to add what you are stating to the scriptures.

The above appears to be setting up a strawman argument; I never claimed that "Yahweh is revealed only in the person of the Father". The default reasoning is not that Yahweh is is revealed only in the person of the Father, but that Yahweh is only one person, that is, He who sent His Son, speaks through His Son, etc.



Yes, as foretold (Deuteronomy 18:15-190, the only true God did indeed send His Son (John 17:1,3) to tell us about the only true God and that we may know the only true God through him; this does not mean that Jesus is the only true God, or that Jesus is a person of the only the true God.



You whatever you wish to imagine and assume; the default reasoning is still that Jesus is not the only true God who sent Jesus.



2 Thessalonians 2:11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
2 Thessalonians 2:12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

The working of error denies the basis for righteousness in Christ, since it would have it that Jesus is still a human being; further, it justifies sin in the flesh (rather than condemning sin the flesh -- Romans 8:3), for it makes appear that in order for a sinless man to obey God, that sinless would need to be God.

No, I have no reason to imagine, assume and add to the Bible any of the reasonings given to claim that Jesus is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or that he is a person of Yahweh. Nothing in the Bible ever once presents any idea at all that Yahweh is more than one person or individual.

Yes, I am sure that Yahweh did indeed know that there would be an apostasy, since the Bible tells us that there would be an apostasy. Nevertheless, the scriptures are indeed written in such a way that would allow those who wish to think beyond what is written to add their imaginations to the scriptures.

The Bible does indeed present a monotheistic view that there is only one true Supreme Being; there are not a lot of different Supreme Beings. At the same time, the Bible allows that the angels are GOD, that the sons of Most High are god (mighty); etc.; certainly the default reasoning is that Jesus is not the only true God who sent him, but that he is mighty, a mighty one, similar to the same way that the angels are GOD -- mighty. Since the entire Bible is fully in harmony with itself without creating the trinity concept and reading that concept into the Bible, there is indeed no reason to create the trinity concept and then read such a concept into the Bible.