Does the "Letter J" argument invalidate "Jesus?"

This is, quite possibly, the single worst argument ever against the name of Jesus, and it gets made all the time.  It's only ever directed at "Jesus" or "Jehovah," but nobody ever says anything at all about

Jordan, Jericho, Jerusalem, James, Joseph, John, Joshua, Jeremiah, Jacob, Judah, or Jeroboam.

The answer is this:  All those names (Including Jehovah and Jesus) begin with the Hebrew letter "Yud," which makes a Y sound.  But in the 1500s, when Tyndale first translated the Bible into English, the letter "J" also made a "Y" sound.  This is preserved in two places:  The German word for "Yes," which is "Ja," and pronounced as "Yah," and the transliteration of the Hebrew word "Hallelujah," which also ends with a "Yah" syllable.

This isn't about the "J" in "Jesus," but rather about the evolution of the English language.  Jesus' name is "יֵשׁוּעַ"  (Yeshua) which you can see reflected accurately in the recent movie "Risen" where they call Him that.


For more information on the Name of Jesus, see my blog post: "Jesus or Yeshua?  What's the deal?"