RE: Why Don't Christians refer to god as yahweh
October 17, 2013 at 5:53 am
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2013 at 6:02 am by max-greece.)
(October 16, 2013 at 12:52 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Actually the line "she (his mother) shall call him Emmanuel" is not in Matthew. It's in Isaiah 7:14. Jesus is not called Emmanuel anywhere in the New Testament. It's supposed to be a fulfilled prophecy, but there's no evidence that the passages in Isaiah are referring to Jesus at all. Even if they were, it's not any sort of fulfilled prophecy, because Jesus is just a character in a book written by someone who could have read the older parts, and then claimed prophecy fulfilled. It's like me making a prophecy that the word "sentence" will be the last word in this sentence.
Matthew 1:23
The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and they will call him Immanuel which means "God with us."
The fact that he is never called immanuel thereafter is indeed puzzling - but it is specifically mentioned in Matthew.
"John 20:28 is one such obvious example."
My lord and my God?
That's the weakest link I've ever seen. How do you get from "God is with us" to Immanuel meaning Jesus is God?
