Is Jesus the real name of the Messiah in the New Testament?

@cook4t7 (202)
United States
June 23, 2007 3:31am CST
The new Testament was about a Messiah 2000 yrs. ago, He was a Hebrew by birth, there were no J's in the Alphabet until after about 1600 so why do we call him Jesus?
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• Philippines
23 Jun 07
The Messiah in the New Testament was indeed a hebrew by flesh. We are calling him Jesus because it is the translated name in our language. It came from the Latin translation Iesus and was translated to Jesus, Hesus, etc. Pronunciation also differs from language to language. Nonetheless, we are calling the same person whether we call Him Messiah or Jesus.
@cook4t7 (202)
• United States
23 Jun 07
Why don't other names get translated like Abraham, or how about he name of the Phoenician god Dagon, or Amorite god Molech, even Satan, or why does Russian vladimir Putan, or Frances Chirac, or how about Israels Sharon they all are the same, why is it just the Messiah's name that they say is translated?
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@repzkoopz (1895)
• Philippines
23 Jun 07
thats pretty simple. the names, or people (or gods), you mentioned are not known to other parts of the world, specially gods of religious sects. it would be useless to translate the name if they aren't even known to other people. not like Jesus, or Iesus, who's relatively known worldwide, even if they're not christians. other common names are translated anyway. names like John, for instance, is translated here as "Juan".
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@cook4t7 (202)
• United States
24 Jun 07
Try calling some one you know by another name and see if they answer iesous is greek not latin
@eiencafe (155)
• Italy
25 Jun 07
Depends on how Jesus is written in Hebrew (sorry I don't know if Jesus is the English translation or not) but we don't call Him Jesus we call Him Gesù so is there a "G" in the Hebrew alfabet or something with the same sound? But to say the truth I don't know or don't remember how He is called in the Bible or if what we read today is some wrong translation or if who translated added things...
@cook4t7 (202)
• United States
1 Jul 07
Yea there's a g in Hebrew it's called (gimmel)what ever language Gesu is does the g have a j sound as ja or g as guh ?
@eiencafe (155)
• Italy
24 Jul 07
Well it's "ge" like the "ge" in "general" and "Gesu'" is in italian, even the accent is different because in English it's on the "je" but in italian it's on the "su"
• Canada
23 Jun 07
right there were no j's but his name is yarway-only im not sure on the correct spelling
@cook4t7 (202)
• United States
24 Jun 07
The correct name for Yahweh's salvation in Hebrew is Yahshua