The Most Excellent Name

Yeshua the Messiah: The Renaissance of a Name Lost in Translation If there was a subject that evokes visceral emotions within the Christian faith, it is the Savior's contrived name known today as Jesus Christ. From the Eastern Orthodox to the Coptic, Catholic, and Syrian to the protestant and Anglocentric Evangelicals, the redeemer's name remains a thing of the divine mystery hidden in plain sight. The confusion over the Son of God's name renders Christianity indefensible because practitioners have made His name Theomorphic. However, the foundation upon which the Savior is crowned remains inalienable and unalterable. This claim comes straight from Isaiah 52:5-6 “…And my name is blasphemed continually every day. Therefore, my people shall know my name.” The Savior's name maintains consistency from the Old to the New Testament. First, Exodus chapter 3:6 proclaims, "I am the God of your fathers," and verse 14 says, "I AM that I AM sent you." Then, Isaiah 42:8 plainly states: "I am the LORD (Adonai) that is My name: And My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to carved images." In the New Testament, the incarnate Savior clarifies His name. In John 8:24, and 8:58, the Savior makes two declarations "For if you do not believe that "I am He" you will die in your sins" and "...before Abraham was, "I am." In these passages of the Scripture, the Lord's name harkens to His original declared name in Exodus and Isaiah (NKJV). The apostle Peter being well aware of the contentious power in the name of the Son of God declared in Acts 4:12, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." The bewilderment surrounding the Christian Savior's real name demands an honest re-examination of His divine name. The primacy of extolling the Savior's real name rests in the Scripture's cardinal law of obedience to God's command. When contemporary theologians vehemently argue that the Savior's name is canonized and settled, they do so contemptuously against the command of God. The protestation that challenging Christian orthodoxy or textual nomenclature of the human-ascribed name runs afoul of the Christian Biblical inerrancy and infallibility is ludicrous. Non-Anglo-believers universally reject the notion that one biblical canon represents perfection. However, if we accept that God's truth sets humanity free, we must allow the Scripture as originally written in Hebrew to shine truth into our faith system. The name Yeshua represents the incarnate God 'Yahweh' (meaning Salvation). The renaissance of Yeshua's name bears witness to the indomitable power of God over established human order. The time has come for the spiritual discernment of God's wisdom to point the light back to the truth that Yeshua is the eternally given, immutable, and proclaimed the name of our Lord and Savior. The phrase "He who gives the name controls the narrative" rings loudly in this instance.