When it comes down to being a true Christian, how many will actually follow the words of Jesus.
According to researcher Bill Donahue, none.
Here’s why…
The name Jesus had to be fictitious because the letter “J” wasn’t invented until the 14th century.
Wiki:
The letter j originated as a swash character, used for the letter i at the end of Roman numerals when following another i, as in xxiij instead of xxiii for the Roman numeral representing 23.
A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German.
Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana (“Trissino’s epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian language”) of 1524.
How did the name Jesus originate?
This name “Jesus” commonly used in Christianity today did not exist and would not be spelled with the letter “J” until about 500 years ago.
There was no letter ‘J’ in any language prior to the 14th century in England.
The letter did not become widely used until the 17th century.
The Oxford English Dictionary shows the derivation of the name “Jesus” as follow:
“In ancient Latin Jesus is spelled Iesus, in ancient Greek (I-ee-sous), ad. late Heb. or Aramaic Yeshua, Jeshua, for the earlier y’hoshua, Jehoshua or Joshua (explained as ‘Jah (or Jahveh) is salvation”
The Encyclopedia Americana contains the following quote on the J:
“The form of ‘J’ was unknown in any alphabet until the 14th century.
Either symbol (J,I) used initially generally had the consonantal sound of Y as in year.
Gradually, the two symbols (J,l) were differentiated, the J usually acquiring consonantal force and thus becoming regarded as a consonant, and the I becoming a vowel.
It was not until 1630 that the differentiation became general in England.”
Note in the original 1611 version of the King James Version of the Bible there was no “J” letter in this Bible for because it did not exist.
James was spelled Iames.
Jesus was spelled Iesous.
“God” was something modern Christianity made up because there is no word “God” in the bible.
God, in English, was taken from the word “good” while “evil” became the “devil”, which makes the bible a story of good versus evil.
