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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson
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That "Greek deity" thing is a rhubarb. Of course, no one in Galilee pronounced His name as "Geez-us" - but the name thing is a bit odd.
I see that this group is from South Africa. There was a group from South Africa that infiltrated the Pentecostal Publishing House once back in the 1980's and inserted a tract titled "The Case of the Missing 'J'" into just about every book in the bookstore. That was kind of a funny prank- but tedious to be undone.
They are correct (sort of) about the pronunciation and all; but their conspiracy theory around the "J" and "Geez-us" simply isn't true. Languages change and sounds and syllables are imported, changed and dropped all of the time.
The problem is really far too complex to attribute to some conspiracy or pagan infiltration. It begins with the way that names and words are inflected in the Greek language. Thus we can have "Yeshua" become "Iesous" in Greek (using a common transliteration).
But as "Jesus" is involved in different actions, the Greek language will inflect the last syllable to show what part of the sentence His name (and His role) is intended to be. Such as, is He doing something? Or is He passive or perhaps receiving the action of a verb?
ιησουν (IESOUN) is "Jesus" receiving action. Peter is coming to Jesus in Matthew 14:29.
ιησους (IESOUS) is "Jesus" as the subject of the sentence in Matthew 4:1.
The Greek language will wreck havoc on those who demand to be overly literal in all of their communications. Didn't Matthew just "change" the name of our Lord in the examples above?
We get the "J" and thus the "Geez-us" from the way that Greek and Latin filtered through German and into English. In German the "J" is almost always spoken as a "Y" sound like in "Jah" (YAW) or "Yes." For whatever reason, when the Anglos and many of the the Saxons broke away from the Fatherland and migrated to Britannica their language evolved differently than the German in Germany.
(Just to add to the problem... no "German" would ever call his home "Germ-man-ee." It's Deustchland. The French called it Allemande and the English just make it worse 
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Given the way languages evolve, how can we even be certain that His name was pronounced exactly the way an Ashkenazim Jewish rabbi from L'vov pronounces "Joshua" today? That's what the "sacred name" sects like this one demand of us. It's really just another form of bigotry. And like all bigots, they just need to lighten up and let "I AM" be Whoever He wants to be.
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