God named His Son Jesus because the name, derived from Hebrew Yeshua, means "Yahweh saves" or "the Lord is salvation," directly describing His divine mission to rescue people from their sins, a purpose revealed to Joseph by an angel before Jesus' birth. The name signifies that Jesus, as God's Son, is the ultimate savior, fulfilling the promise of deliverance.
It can be easy to dismiss the explicit reasoning of why the angel commands Joseph to do this. Jesus was to be named 'Jesus' because the name means 'God (or Yahweh) Saves. ' It's also incredibly important (and amazing) that God Himself, through the angel, named Jesus. But the significance doesn't end there.
Jesus was given his name because he would save. No wonder he is called the Savior in the Bible. Jesus is also the Greek way to say the Hebrew name, Joshua, which means “Yahweh is salvation”.
Instead, “Jesus is designated as God's Son because he was conceived by the Holy Spirit instead of by a human father.”23 Then, at the end of Matthew's Gospel, the Son is identified with the Father and the Holy Spirit in the baptismal formula of Matthew 28:19.
The first coming was to die to save His people. Hence the name Jesus - The Lord Saves. His second coming is to live and rule on this planet amongst His people, hence Immanuel, God with us. It's not unusual to have more than one name.
The angel told Joseph to name the soon be born Child Jesus. This was a common name given in that day, meaning “Yahweh is salvation.” The Jews were looking for a promised savior that would save them from Roman domination.
Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus.
In Christianity, you pray to God (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), but the common pattern is to pray to the Father through Jesus (the Son) in the power of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus is the mediator, yet you can also speak directly to Jesus or the Spirit as distinct persons of the Trinity, as they are one God. Jesus taught to pray to the Father (e.g., The Lord's Prayer), but the Bible also shows people praying directly to Jesus (e.g., Stephen, Paul), and praying to any person of the Trinity is praying to God.
In Christian theology, God and Jesus are not the same person, but they are the same being in essence, understood through the doctrine of the Trinity: one God existing as three distinct, co-equal persons (Father, Son/Jesus, and Holy Spirit). Jesus is fully divine (God) and fully human, distinct from God the Father, yet united in nature, with Jesus being God's Son who became incarnate.
While He seems more fond of using the term “Son of Man” He did call himself the “Son of God” John 3:16-18. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Knowing this, then, my answer to the question of whether we should call the Son of God by his Jewish name, Yeshua, is this: If you're speaking Hebrew, then yes, use his Jewish name.
The Greek alphabet has no “y” or “sh” sound, so in Greek writing, the “Ye” in Yeshua became an “eeay” sound, and the “sh” became an “s” sound. Also, Greek did not allow a male name to end in an “ah” sound, so the solution was to add an “s” to the end as many Greek male names have today.
The Hebrew form of Jesus means “salvation” or “He saves.” Christ is called many things throughout Scripture: Lord, Immanuel, Teacher, Messiah, and Son of Man. But “Jesus” tells us the most essential thing to understand: He came to save the world from sin, and for that reason, God gave His Son the name above all names.
In the New Testament, in Luke 1:31 an angel tells Mary to name her child Jesus, and in Matthew 1:21 an angel tells Joseph to name the child Jesus during Joseph's first dream.
But Jesus viewed God as his “Abba, Father” the way a child views the paternal parent who begot him. To the Jewish leaders, this led to blasphemy worthy of capital punishment, because “he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God” (John 5:18).
In the words of the Nicene creed: We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. So we worship Jesus because of his divinity.
While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, generally, Christians believe that Jesus is God incarnate and "true God and true man" (or both fully divine and fully human).
In the Quran, Jesus is described as the Messiah (Arabic: المسيح, romanized: al-Masīḥ), born of a virgin, performing miracles, accompanied by his disciples, and rejected by the Jewish establishment; in contrast to the traditional Christian narrative, however, he is stated neither to have been crucified, nor executed, ...
Although God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one, they do play different roles in our prayer life. Like I said, we pray to God. But since we are imperfect speaking to a holy God, we need an intercessor to cover for us you could say. Jesus is that someone that vouches for us.
So since the Father is the only true God according to Jesus, it is the Father that Jesus is referring to as the only One whom we should worship and serve. We should all understand what it means to worship and serve someone. To put it simply, it means to obey His every command.
The Bible says Jesus is unique in both His person and His purpose. He wasn't just some spiritual individual during His time on earth; He was both God's Son (John 3:16) and God Himself—God in human flesh (1 Timothy 3:16). Yes, He was fully man, but He was also fully God (Colossians 2:9).
Joseph has one wife, Asenath the daughter of Potiphar the priest of On, whom he marries in Egypt. She gives birth to two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. Since in the Bible, unlike in later Jewish law, ethnic identity is determined by the father, the fact that their mother is not an Israelite does not affect their status.
In Jeremiah 10:1-4 the verses basically say not to cut down trees and decorate them as the heathens did to sum it up. So why is this such a common practice among Christians, when they shouldn't even be celebrating Christmas in the first place?
Scholars believe Mary would have been somewhere between 12-16 years old when she had Jesus (Ibid.). Given the biblical account and the Jewish cultural practices in Mary's day, the most plausible age Mary would have been when she had Jesus was most likely 15 or 16 years old.