Post by ResLight on Jul 23, 2014 19:26:29 GMT -5
In a roundabout way, some are claiming that Jesus, in effect, changed God's Holy Name to "Father". The claim is that Jesus never spoke the Holy Name, but always addressed God as "Father".
Did Jesus change God's Holy Name (Jehovah, Yahweh) to Father? There is no scriptural evidence that he did so. He did refer to his God as "Father" and instructed his followers to do so. But this does not mean that he had changed God's name to "Father", nor does it mean that he never used God's Holy Name.
For instance, let us look at Matthew 4:7:
Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’” — Matthew 4:7, World English Bible translation (WEB).
Here Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 6:16: “You shall not tempt Yahweh your God.” (WEB) Did Jesus change God's Holy Name to "Father" in Matthew 4:7. No, but it is evident that someone has replaced the Holy Name here in the Greek with a form of Kurios, thus, in effect, changing the Holy Name to Kurios (Lord — the Greek is without the definite article as it appears in the English). While it is also evident that someone had to change it, else we would find some form of the Holy Name in this verse. If Jesus joined the disobedient Jews in changing God's eternal Holy Name, then he himself would have been disobedient. This would have meant, however, not that he did not use God's Holy Name, but that he pronounced that Holy Name as KURIOS.
Some historical evidence suggests that Christian copyists changed God's Holy Name during the Jewish persecution of Christians that took place around the beginning of the second century AD. This was done to keep the Jews from destroyed all copies of the NT scriptures.
At any rate, tet us look at another scripture, Matthew 23:39:
For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you will say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ (WEB)
Here Jesus quotes the name of the God in whose name he came. Directly it is from Psalm 118:26: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh.” (WEB) It is also prophesied in Deuteronomy 18:15-19 that Jesus would speak in the name of Jehovah (Yahweh), not by the name of a god by the name of "Kurios". Elsewhere, Jesus did say that he had come in the name of his Father. (John 5:43; 10:25) I do not believe that Jesus meant this to be viewed as his changing the name of his Father to "Father", but rather an acknowledgement that he had come in the name of his God and Father, whose name is Jehovah (or some prefer, based on abbreviated Greek, Yahweh [or, Jahveh]).
IF God's Holy Name was changed to KURIOS and THEOS in the Greek NT, then God's Holy Name is in the New Testament as KURIOS and THEOS in the New Testament. However, if Jesus and his apostles changed God's Holy Name to forms of KURIOS and THEOS, then this would call into question the vailidity of the Jesus' claim to be the prophet that Moses wrote about, since that prophet was to come in the name of Jehovah (Yahweh), not Kurios. -- Deuteronomy 18:15-19.
Abbreviated forms of God's Holy Name do appear in the extant Greek manuscripts of NT in many names, as well as in the form often transliterated as Hallelujah. -- Revelation 19:1,3,4,6.
See my studies:
The Holy Name in the New Testament
jesus.rlbible.com/?p=37
and
"Lord" in the New Testament
jesus.rlbible.com/?p=21
Did Jesus change God's Holy Name (Jehovah, Yahweh) to Father? There is no scriptural evidence that he did so. He did refer to his God as "Father" and instructed his followers to do so. But this does not mean that he had changed God's name to "Father", nor does it mean that he never used God's Holy Name.
For instance, let us look at Matthew 4:7:
Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’” — Matthew 4:7, World English Bible translation (WEB).
Here Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 6:16: “You shall not tempt Yahweh your God.” (WEB) Did Jesus change God's Holy Name to "Father" in Matthew 4:7. No, but it is evident that someone has replaced the Holy Name here in the Greek with a form of Kurios, thus, in effect, changing the Holy Name to Kurios (Lord — the Greek is without the definite article as it appears in the English). While it is also evident that someone had to change it, else we would find some form of the Holy Name in this verse. If Jesus joined the disobedient Jews in changing God's eternal Holy Name, then he himself would have been disobedient. This would have meant, however, not that he did not use God's Holy Name, but that he pronounced that Holy Name as KURIOS.
Some historical evidence suggests that Christian copyists changed God's Holy Name during the Jewish persecution of Christians that took place around the beginning of the second century AD. This was done to keep the Jews from destroyed all copies of the NT scriptures.
At any rate, tet us look at another scripture, Matthew 23:39:
For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you will say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ (WEB)
Here Jesus quotes the name of the God in whose name he came. Directly it is from Psalm 118:26: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh.” (WEB) It is also prophesied in Deuteronomy 18:15-19 that Jesus would speak in the name of Jehovah (Yahweh), not by the name of a god by the name of "Kurios". Elsewhere, Jesus did say that he had come in the name of his Father. (John 5:43; 10:25) I do not believe that Jesus meant this to be viewed as his changing the name of his Father to "Father", but rather an acknowledgement that he had come in the name of his God and Father, whose name is Jehovah (or some prefer, based on abbreviated Greek, Yahweh [or, Jahveh]).
IF God's Holy Name was changed to KURIOS and THEOS in the Greek NT, then God's Holy Name is in the New Testament as KURIOS and THEOS in the New Testament. However, if Jesus and his apostles changed God's Holy Name to forms of KURIOS and THEOS, then this would call into question the vailidity of the Jesus' claim to be the prophet that Moses wrote about, since that prophet was to come in the name of Jehovah (Yahweh), not Kurios. -- Deuteronomy 18:15-19.
Abbreviated forms of God's Holy Name do appear in the extant Greek manuscripts of NT in many names, as well as in the form often transliterated as Hallelujah. -- Revelation 19:1,3,4,6.
See my studies:
The Holy Name in the New Testament
jesus.rlbible.com/?p=37
and
"Lord" in the New Testament
jesus.rlbible.com/?p=21
