The original name of our Saviour was not Jesus or Iesous, but Jehoshua orYehoshua. In our Saviour's word, His Father's Name was given to Him. The Father's Name isYahuweh.

Two factors contributed greatly to the substitution and the distortion ofour Saviour's Name. The first was the superstitious teaching of the Jews that the Father'sName is not to be uttered and that the Name must be "disguised" outside of the temple ofJerusalem. The second factor was the strong anti-Judaism feeling that prevailed amongst theGentiles. They wanted a saviour, but not a Jewish one.

According to Wörterbuch der Antike, the substitute name can be tracedback to the Latin Iesus and the Greek Iesous. Then, it can be traced back to anadaptation of the name of the Greek healing goddess Ieso. This is confirmed byGreek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. To Greeks who venerated a healing goddessIeso, a saviour Iesous must have been most acceptable, suggests a writer inPhilologische Wochenschrift. In spite of attempts to justify the "translating" of theFather's Name and His Son's Name, it cannot be done. A person's name remains the same in alllanguages.

The father of the Greek goddess Ieso was Asclepius, the deity of healing. Thefather of Asclepius was Apollo, the great Sun-deity. Thus, the name Iesous can betraced back to Sun-worship. There is also a relationship to the Egyptian goddess Isis and herson Isu. According to Reallexikon der Agpyptischen Religionsgeschichte, the name of Isisappears in hieroglyphic inscriptions as ESU or ES. Isu and Esu sound exactlylike "Jesu" that the Saviour is called in the translated Scriptures of many languages.

Esus was a Gallic deity comparable to the Scandanavian Odin. The Greekabbreviation for Iesous is IHS, which is found on many inscriptions made by the Churchduring the Middle Ages. IHS was the mystery name of Bacchus (Tammuz), another Sun-deity. Theseare a few examples only.