Jesus or Joshua?
Another topic of curiosity has arisen that I thought would bear some explanation. In some of my posts, you may have noticed that I will occasionally refer to Jesus as Joshua, and unless you are familiar with the reason behind it, you probably thought it was a typo. It's not. I intentionally wrote Joshua instead of or alongside of Jesus. The purpose of this post is to explain why I did so, and part of the explanation stems from the Sacred Name movement. If you aren't familiar with that movement, it's a movement (not relegated to any denomination) that pushes the belief that there is only one correct name for God. Not only that, but there is one correct language to pronounce that name in, and not stopping there, that there is only one correct way to pronounce that name in that language. What if you don't do all of these things? Well then, God won't hear you or be able to understand you. Shockingly, their particular group of people is the only one who knows of this t...