Digging4truth said:
One question though... the thread was started concerning those who would criticize one for using the term Yeshua (or any other possibly more correct version).
Me:
Yes that was the topic. The only reason I have seen so far is because we speak English therefore we should
ONLY use the English version Jesus.
Yet if that applies to all nations then Jews would not be allowed to use Jesus! They would ONLY be allowed to use Yeshua.
Here is something else that is relavent to the topic.
Joel prophesied:
30: And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
32: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Joel 2:30-32
Of course where we see LORD the Hebrew is YHWH. so it was prophesied whoever calls on the name of YHWH shall be saved.
Yet in the New Testament the name we see people calling on the name of Jesus or Yeshua.
This is where we need to be able to connect the name Jesus/Yeshua to the name YHWH. The name must somehow either be the same or at least contain the name YHWH.