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Why call him Yeshua instead of Jesus?

Today, we are awash in a sea of theologies, mythologies, belief systems, allegations, accusations, traditions and endless personal opinions about Jesus: what he is/was, who he thought he was, his mission, who his followers believed he was, why he is relevant or irrelevant to life today, etc.

At the extreme edges of the conflicts produced by those questions are groups with beliefs like these:

(1) People who are absolutely sure that Jesus is the one and only God, the Creator of the universe and the words of their Bibles are the inerrant and infallible truths.

(2) People who are absolutely sure the Jesus never existed and the words of the Bible are pure fiction.


Go to complete article at http://www.biblicalheritage.org/why-yeshua.html

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