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· 4 years ago
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This makes me feel a bit better!
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· 4 years ago
Debatable. “A rose by any other name.” “Jesus” is no more “Josh” than he would be “Jesus.” There isn’t a “J” sound in ancient Hebrew with which to pronounce either name. Jesus, being Hebrew by cannon, would most certainly have (and in original text is called by) a Hebrew name- Yeshua. If you remember your Indiana Jones you’ll recall Last Crusade- “in Latin, Jehova is spelled with an ‘I’...”
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Due to changes in language and different cultures texts are translated into- especially over time, words change spelling and pronunciation for localization. “Y” did not exist in Latin so Latin translators used “I” instead where “Y” was used in Hebrew or other languages. But in modern English and many Other languages- despite being most likely transliterated from the Hebrew “Yahweh” it is spelled Jehova.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
To that point, do you think the Hebrew or Greek or Latin speaker said and wrote: “God” just like that appears here or one might say it out loud? No.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Even when we step beyond Abrahamic faiths- do you think the average native mono linguistic English or Japanese or Tamil speaker pronounces the names of most Greek or Celtic deities or figures the same as a native speaker of those languages thousands of years ago? Likely not. The pronunciation will depend on the speaker, the sounds of their native tongue, and their exposure to hearing words from the culture they are borrowing from.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
In conclusion and TL:dr- this is a concept that should be familiar to anyone used to working with numbers in abstract- it doesn’t matter what you call a thing so long as that name is distinct and consistent to identify that entity. If you say “X” or “7” we still know what you are referring to once it is defined. The concept of god in abrahamic faith has many names- even more in faiths with ideas like the “trinity” and such. Where any name is defined and understood as belonging to a direct aspect of God, it would be blasphemous to take that name in vain.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
In 6,000 years if people are still worshipping the same Jesus and same God but speak some language that would be incomprehensible to us and call Jesus “Flapklap Dinkley blort” then it would be blasphemous to say “what theFlapklap Dinkley blort?” A name is whatever name we give something. Your Dog was not born “Daisy,” it is “Daisy” because you call it Daisy; and if someone adopted Daisy and started calling Daisy “Rex”- the dog would be “Rex” and would eventually respond to “Rex.” In Spanish they wear Zapatos and in English they wear shoes- but calling a Shoe a Zapato or Schuhe or Haai doesn’t change that we are referring to the same thing.
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funkmasterrex
· 4 years ago
Jesus fucking Christ XD
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purplepumpkin
· 4 years ago
"Oily Josh"
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