Romans 10:9-10
“If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Yahweh, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9-10
“If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Yahweh, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
While I do not dispute the divinity of Yeshua — the Scriptures make that perfectly clear in many passages, including the words of Yeshua Himself — Dr. Hutchens is once again playing “fast and loose” with etymology. He states that the Greek word “kurios” (as found in Romans 10:9-10) is synonymous with the “tetragrammaton” (the four-letter proper Name of G-d). This is incorrect. Kurios means “master” or “lord”; it does not mean “Yhwh”. Consider these words by the Biblical scholar and PhD in Semitic languages — Dr. Rolf Furuli of the University of Oslo. “To the best of my knowledge there is no example of KURIOS as a substitute for the tetragrammaton in any LXX-fragments or LXX-like fragments before the middle of the first century CE. But we find the tetragrammaton in Old Hebrew or Aramaic script, as IAW or in a few cases we find just a blank space.” [Note: LXX = the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Tanakh.] http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2002-September/022573.html