📜 Axiom 1: His Name is Joshua

If names hold meaning, and if truth matters, then calling Him by the name He was given is an act of both honesty and resistance.

The Etymology of His Name

• The man the world calls Jesus was born with the Hebrew name Yehoshua (יְהוֹשׁוּעַ), which means "Yahweh is salvation."
• By the 1st century, this name was commonly shortened to Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ). The same name as Joshua, son of Nun, Moses’ successor.
• In Greek, this became Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) because Greek does not have a "sh" sound.
• When Latin translated the Greek, Iēsous became Iesus, which later became Jesus in English after the letter "J" was introduced in the 1500s.

Why This Matters

• The name Joshua directly connects Him to the one who led Israel into the Promised Land after Moses.
• Calling Him Joshua undoes the Romanization of His identity and removes the imperial filter placed over His story.
• The shift from Joshua to Jesus was a linguistic evolution driven by empire, not an intentional theological distinction.

Implications

📖 Empire renamed Him. If it changed His name, what else did it change?

📖 If names matter in scripture, if Yahweh renaming Abram, Sarai, and Jacob meant something, then reclaiming His name matters.

📖 If Christianity has followed a Romanized version of Him for centuries, then what else has been distorted?

🔗 Supporting Scripture:

• Numbers 13:16 → “Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.” (Direct name connection)
• Acts 7:45 (KJV) → “Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles.” (Greek Ἰησοῦς, referring to Joshua)
• Hebrews 4:8 (KJV) → “For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.” (Again, Ἰησοῦς, referring to Joshua)
• Matthew 1:21 → “You shall call his name Yeshua, for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Yeshua means "Yahweh saves.")