Joke Hebrew names

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Does the Jo- in Jonah, Joseph, and Josiah reference the tetragrammaton? No…

Jonah is transliterated from Yonah (יונה) and means “dove.” Joseph is transliterated from Yosef (יוסף) and means “add” or “increase.” Josiah is transliterated from Yoshiyahu (יושיהו) and means “Yahweh supports.” Note that Hebrew is written from right-to-left, and the Heh (ה) at the end of a word is usually silent. The “Jo” in each of these does not reference the tetragrammaton. The only name of the three that references the tetragrammaton is “Josiah”, but with the suffix -iah, not the prefix Jo-. The “Jo” means nothing on its own. And it’s the “Jos-“ that means “supports”, not the “-siah.” There’s no such suffix as -siah!

Yehosef (יהוסף) – Would mean “YHWH adds.” Would be transliterated Jehoseph.

Yehonah (‎יהונה) – would mean “YHWH’s dove.” Would be transliterated Jehonah.

‎Yehoshiyahu (יהושיהו) – would mean “YHWH supports YHWH.” Would be pronounced Jehosiah. Wait, that meaning doesn’t make sense. it would make more sense to say “YHWH supports himself.”

In Hebrew, Joshel or Josel (יושאל) would be pronounced as Yosh’el and would mean “God supports” (God as in Elohim, not JHVH). The Jos- prefix would mean “supports,” and the -el suffix would mean “Elohim.” Or should it be Josiel, יושיאל (Yoshi’el)? Note that the apostrophe (‘) marks a glottal stop. I don’t think that name exists in the Bible though.

What about Jehojah? That would mean “JHVH is JHVH.” It could also be spelled Jehoiah. It would be spelled יהויהו (Yehoyahu).

What if יהו was a root, rather than a prefix or suffix? Then it would be -yaho- and be transliterated -jaho-. As in ”My father is Yahweh’s son”… or something.

Enough of the tetragrammaton.

Does Abel mean ”God’s father”? Does the “Ab” mean “father” while “el” means “God”? If that was the case, it would be spelled אבאל (av’el), but it’s actually spelled הבל (hevel) which comes from the Hebrew word for “breath and means “ephemeral” or “short and sweet.” It’s the same Hebrew word used for “vanity” in the book of Ecclesiastes. There is no glottal stop in that name.

Other Hebrew name ideas are Adoniel (God is Lord).

How do we deserve hell?

How do we deserve punishment that severe? Doesn’t it seem extreme and over-the-top?

What would you think of the law treating a Class 3 Misdimeanor as a Class A Felony – is that not basically what God is doing? Edit: Let me give an example. Executing a driver (putting the driver to death) for speeding at 80 miles per hour on a highway – that wouldn’t be fair would it? Isn’t that basically what God is doing? Treating every crime as a capital crime?

One proposed explanation is that while our sins seem finite from our own eyes, bound by time, our sins are eternal in the eyes of God who is outside of time.

But just because God is infinitely good doesn’t mean he has to give infinite punishment to teensiest sin.

Edit: I forgot, some people would say “But it’s not a teensy little sin” but I would respond “let’s suppose that it was” but they would call that response moot.

And I would say that “Putin is a worse sinner than me.”

Devout Christians deserve milder punishment in hell than their enemies – how do they not?

Sure, it is arrogant to say “We are better than our enemies.”

But we chose the path to hell – why can’t we UN-choose the path to hell?

There’s something else though. The issue isn’t one-time sin that’s resolved to be never done again. The issue is persistent rebellion against God. Sin is not one-time. It has eternal implications.

At the end of the Millenium, will only Satan be released from his chains, or will ALL of those in Hades be released? What is a good reason for God to not pardon the damned out of Hell/Hades at the end of the millennium and give them just ONE more chance to turn and repent? God could say “If you repent, you will be out of hell and in Heaven. But if you do evil again, you will go back to hell for eternity and not get a second chance.” What, they would not repent?

How could anyone CONSCIOUSLY choose hell OVER Heaven? Can’t they weigh the cost and benefit of Hell vs. Heaven and realize that the benefits of Heaven outweigh the costs, and the costs of Hell outweigh the benefits? Wouldn’t they treat Heaven as a lifeboat and Hell as a sinking ship? Like “I don’t like either Heaven or Hell, but if I had to choose one, I would choose Heaven.”

Hell will be different for each damned person, depending on what the person hates. Hell will be what the damned hates most. If a damned person really hates flowers, they will get flowers. If a damned person really despises music, they will get music.

I also propose… God doesn’t want an endless cycle of sin-condemnation-repentance-pardon-sin-condemnation-and so on. Those in hell will say up to God in Heaven “Please pardon me from this fiery anguish – I promise to do whatever you say” – but God knows that they will break their promise – even if they firmly plan to not sin again, they will change their mind and rebel against God, thinking they will get another chance if they are damned, which will lead to an endless cycle in which they sin, are damned, repent, then are pardoned, and they sin again, and are damned, and repent, and then are pardoned, and they sin again, and so on. In an endless cycle. God doesn’t want that.

Why doesn’t God replace the damned? You’ve probably been told that things can be replaced, people cannot. Randy Alcorn claims that only those we once loved went to hell, and the good we saw in them is not in them anymore. But I say, couldn’t God replace those lost ones with people that are what the lost ones could and should have been?

And Matthew 7:13-14 says that most people are going to hell. How could most choose the path to hell and few choose the path to Heaven? And why doesn’t God do whatever it takes for the number in Heaven to be breakeven with the number in hell? Can you guess why I’m using the word “breakeven”? Also, couldn’t new people be born in Heaven? Either not descended from Adam and Eve but descended from a fresh couple, OR born AFTER their parents are redeemed?

Humanity is 50% good and 50% bad, don’t you think? Why don’t you think God? Satan is black/dark, God is white/light, and humankind is GRAY.

One more thing, I never, EVER ask God rhetorical questions. The questions I ask God ALWAYS expect answers, no matter how rhetorical they sound.

It’s time to let old things die

The Catholic church, the Protestants, the fundamental Baptists, the Seventh-Day Adventists, the Mormons, Islam, paganism, the occult…

The communists, the democrats, the alt-right… Silicon Valley, Twitter, Parler, Facebook, Instagram, Google… Hollywood, Disney… Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Putin…

Let it all die.

We can bring a new order to the World and to God’s people.

Not to spoil Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, but the above sounds kind of like Kylo Ren. I have to warn you that the following video may have SPOILERS for the movie: