Research Beyond The Books:
Do not always rely on some modern books (Jewish or Gentile 1500-present) to give you the correct information about the sacred name. Many of these books are full of error, lies, misinformation, and apostasy.
One such case is the corrupted opinion of Henry George Liddell, author of the English-Greek Lexicon now known as Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek English Lexicon. Liddell is one of those "higher critics" that so many wail about among the Yahwist, yet they turn to his lexicon for support that the name of Jesus came from the name of the Greek goddess of healing, Iasa. Here is Liddell's rendering:
Under Iaso: The Greek goddess of healing reveals that the name Iaso is Ieso in the Ionic dialect of the Greeks, Iesous being the contracted genitive form!
Iesous being the "contracted genitive form" is Liddell's invention. Neither Liddell nor any idiot who quotes him have ever produced any artifact or document where "Iesous" was ever used among the Greek Ionics for the name of a Greek god or goddess.
Liddell was a Yahwist and himself looked for ways to denigrate the name of Jesus. A Yahwist is a person who believes the tetragrammaton is the name of God and that "Yahweh" is the correct pronuciation. If Liddell was half the scholar he is made out to be (he plagerized Francis Passow's German-Greek Lexicon), he would have instead looked and explained the name of Jesus from the Aramaic language and its equivilent written in Greek phonetics. That he would deny the deity of God in the name of Jesus by even associating his name with that of a pagan goddess, shows his willing purpose to avoid any connection to the Aramaic. To say the name of Jesus (Iesous) was dervied from a female name is a real joke. This is an example of an educated liar.
Do all agree with Liddell? No:
“ME. [a. L. Iesus, a. Gr. 'IhsouV, ad. late Heb. or Aramaic Jeshua, for earlier Jehoshua or Joshua (explained as ‘Jah (or Jahveh) is salvation’), a frequent Jewish personal name” (William Little, et al., eds. , The Oxford Universal Dictionary on Historical Principals, London: Oxford University Press, 1955).
Here, the English Jesus can be seen to have come down to us from the Latin, Iesus. Iesus then, is from the Greek Iesous, which is in turn a phonetic pronunciation of the Aramaic for Jehshoo(s). Jehshoo(s) was derived from the earlier Hebrew "Yeh" a contraction of EHYEH, and "yesha" the Hebrew word for salvation.
“(je’zus) [...Lat. From Gr. Iesous, which is for Heb. Jeshua, a late form of Jehoshua or Joshua...]” ( John D. Davis, The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, (Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1944).
Here are two witnesses who do not agree with Liddell's perversion. However we may assess Liddell's junk, the Yawist have at their disposal a quote from one of their own. We shall simply deny it! Liddell did not write the LXX and he was not an Apostle. We will place our trust on they who had better brains and a much more impressive faith.
Several alleged artifacts are claimed to have the YHVH or YHWH inscribed in or upon them, and we have discovered these to be frauds someone manipulated. If you want to accept what some Bible translator or writer places into his "preface" or other introductory notes as proof of some fact the sacred name is spelled a certain way, then you may be using error for your faith.
Below is a vase found in ancient city of Gat. The letters and the image on this ewer are copied and translated for you. Here is one artifact the Yahwist will not promote because it links the name "Yah" with that of the goat god. It appears the god-name "Yah" was a favorite among many pagan cultures. The Freemasons borrow this goat god for their own lodges and secret devotions:
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Charging The Yahwist With Falsehood And Blasphemy:
The charge against the Yahwist is that in their extreme hate against the name of Jesus they spread falsehood and blasphemy. Once their minds are seared with a hot iron, they do not take the time to research the name of Jesus honestly and come to the truth about the "wonderful" name (Isa 9:6). The concision law-keeping spirit will not allow them to be that humble. Below is one of these hateful and blasphemous antichrist allegations:
Posted by Yahweh worshiper on a Yahweh forum:
"What I have learned from friends on the name issue. Under swine in Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary that "SUS" is latin for swine. When I saw this I began to think that it might be possible that I may be deceived about the name of the savior. His name means "pig god". Another piece of research that came across my path was where the name of Jesus came from. Here it is. In regard to the pagan character of the unbloody sacrifice of the mass, we have seen not little already. But there is something yet to be considered, in which the working of the mystery of iniquity will still further appear. There are letters on the wafer that are worth reading. These letters are IHS. What mean these mystical letters? To a Christian these letters are represented as signifying, " Iesus Hominum Salvator" " Jesus the Savior of men." But let a Roman worshipper of Isis (for in the age of the emperors there were innumerable worshippers of Isis in Rome) cast his eyes upon them, and how will he read them? He will read them of course, according to his own well-known system of idolatry: "Isis, Horus, Seb," that is "The Mother, the Child, and the Father of the gods," in other words, " The Egyptian Trinity." The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship, Alexander Hislop. The name of Jesus then equals Isis which is not the name of my Elohim."
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Is Hislop correct? Does not anyone know that the Egyptian trinity is not Isis, Horus, and Seb: but it was Osiris, Isis, and Horus in that order "OIH" and not that manufactured by Hislop? If you want to be anticatholic because of the mass or some other perversion of truth, that is fine, only tell the truth. Do not succumb to lies to refute lies. Hislops twist of the facts are not needed to prove the mass is a pagan ritual not practiced anywhere in the New Testament. For Mrs. Yahweh worshiper above to associate Jesus with Isis is a shame beyond comprehension. But then, Yahwist are not known for trying to find the truth once their antiJesus hatred reaches its virulent peak.
The name of Jesus means "pig god", come on Mrs. Yahweh worshiper, surely you have more brains than that. But then, even Jerry Kirk in a debate in Atlanta, Georgia several years ago claimed this same meaning about the name of Jesus. He said that to baptize in the name of Jesus was to baptize in the name of a "pig god". So it appears this tale is circulating among the Yahwist and they as in other cases of their ignorance, have taken it as fact and are spreading the falsehood. They make the claim but they do not cite one source of reliability to back up their anti-Christ claim. To take Latin "sus" and associate this with the name of Jesus because it has "sus" within it, is ignorance. Could we say then that all words beginning with or ending in "sus" likewise mean "pig or swine"? Let's look at some of this stupidity for a minute:
Sus-penders= "pig straps"
Sus-pension= "pig held high by both ends"
Sus-picious= "pig looking"
Sus-tain= "pig support"
Sus-teneance= "pig food"
Sus-pect= "pig criminal"
Sus-an= "pig woman"
Sus-annah= "pig money"
And some of these idiots claim that "sus" or "soos" in the name of Jesus means "horse god". They take this from the word "horse" in Hebrew (Strongs 5483 cuwc (soos). Thus they say, "aha the name of Jesus in Hebrew means "horse god."
This is proof that ignorance is the birth of stupidity and false doctrine. Those who have the same mentality of the person spreading stupidity are the converts to such false doctrines the Yahwist are spreading. It has been my experience that they are all rebels and cannot be Pastored and do not fit within the Church family of those holding to sound doctrine so they depart out from among us to declare themselves as the prophets of God and end up in every wind of doctrine and heresy that comes to their ears. My 93 year old daddy once told me: "Son, figures never lie but liars always figure". My point here is that if you try to find out the meaning and interpretation of the name of Jesus from those who already have virulent hatred against his name, or from Jewish or Gentile books continuing a tradition of man, you will likely NEVER find it. All you will find is what they want you to know to group you into their theology and traditions of interpretation, with such like that the name of Jesus derives or comes from "sus" and means "pig god."
Others who follow this mentality will also rush to the names Joshua or Yoshua, or Ya- Shua, and then interpret them as meaning "Jehovah is salvation" (Jehovah is the Saviour of Jesus, one God saving another God). If and when you ever get deeply into the study of the guess-names Jehovah and Yahweh, you will enter into the murky and dark world of the occults where their conjecture and supposition are brought together in mysticism to claim they have discovered the lost sacred name based upon either an interpretation of YHVH or YHWH. Out of the practice of these cult groups comes the methodology of special tricks used in Jewish gematria and numerology to try and prove these guess names are accurate. Here is the bottom line on this. We are to base our faith on the MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY, what saith and teacheth the Word of God. If someone wants to prove the name of Jesus means "pig god" or some other of their claimed falsehoods, let them produce the evidence. This far all they have done is made claims and assertions and produced nothing.