Isn't his point that although the New Testament was written in Greek, most people just walking around did not speak in Greek (I'm not saying they didn't know Greek, but only that it was not their native tongue)? And thus they would not have called Him "Jesus", but Y'shua (or something like that, I don't know Hebrew or Aramaic). And Jesus isn't even the Greek, it is our English translation of the Greek.

My name is Stephen. If somebody wrote a biography about me in French, it would be Etienne. If they wrote it in Spanish it would be Esteban. But my name is not Etienne or Esteban, it is Stephen.

John Calvin's name was not John Calvin. I believe it was Jean Cauvin. In today's world we would not have Anglicized his name, and he would have been known as Jean Cauvin.

And in a sense is not that what we have with Jesus? When He was born to the virgin, did they call Him Jesus? Or did they call Him Y'shua?

I'm not sayinig it matters whether we call Him Y'shua or Jesus or whatever other translation we have. I'm just saying that the name Jesus was probably not what he was called.

Steve

Grace is not common.