Dear Brother & Sister Lee,

Thank you for publishing my 'ad.' I can only hope that YHWH uses it for good. Your comments seemed (to me) to miss the mark' concerning what I was testifying about. If you have opportunity, perhaps you could clarify some of them... for instance:

1) When Peter proposed that,"There is no other Name given among men whereby we must be saved," are you stating that there is No Name whereby we must be saved, or that it just isn't "Yahoshua?"

The verse you are refering to reads as follows: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)

A better way to render this verse would be as follows: Neither is there salvation in any other besides Christ: for there is no other power/authority under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

The verse is not refering to a literal name saving anyone but a power which is Christ. There is more than one meaning in Strong’s Concordance for the word “name” used in this verse.

Strongs #3686 for name: #1=name: univ. of proper names #2=the name is used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, i.e. for one’s rank, authority, interests, pleasure, command, excellences, deeds etc. #3=persons reckoned up by name #4=the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason.

The problem with believing this verse is refering to a literal name is that it would then be saying that we are being saved by the name of God whatever you say that name is. The Bible in no way supports any such teaching that a name saves anyone. What saves us is when we show love for our Maker by following His commands.

To answer your question, I am saying that there is No Name (literally) that saves anyone. What Christ’s real name is, is not brought into question in this verse.

2) I agree that simply pronouncing the Mighty One's Name without fearing & obeying Him is futile. But, are you therefore saying that He doesn't have a Name? The tetragrammaton occurs in the scriptures approaching 7,000 times!! There can be no doubt (or at least there shouldn't be!) that YHWH is YHWH's Name.

There ARE many other things necessary for salvation. However, as you said yourself, "Our salvation requires that we do something rather than JUST get His Name correct." To use the Messiah's words in a different context,"These ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone" (Matt.23:23).

I fully agree that both God and Christ have a name, however I do not believe that people should try to make that into a doctrine when there is no command in the Bible showing we are to do so. Instead of putting emphasis on having the correct name of God as being a sign, you should be putting emphasis on keeping the laws of God.

Another problem with teaching such a doctrine is that there are many sacred names groups out there and not all of them are using the same name for God or for Christ. Even when you look up “tetragrammaton” it has several listed, some are as follows: JHVH, IHVH, JHWH, YHVH, and YHWH. So tell me which one of these sacred names groups actually has the name of God or Christ correct? Then understand that God is not the author of confusion.

3) I don't deny that the concept of a sacred language comes from the Kabbalah, any more than I deny that 'star-gazers' have believed that the positions of celestial bodies influences our lives. But-does that mean that the stars don't exist, or that YHWH's and Yahoshua's Names haven't been preserved for us in the Hebrew tongue? (I think not.)

Finally; I have no idea whether or not the Hebrew language existed prior to Babel. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, that it didn't! YHWH 'introduced' Himself to the writers of scripture in their 'lingua franca;' which just happened to be Hebrew! Is that so bad? I don't see the relationship. What is so bad about Hebrew? Maybe I'm misreading you, but you sound prejudiced to the Hebrew language. Please correct me if I'm wrong. A brother and fellow traveller, Richard A. Heath

Yes, the stars exist even if some people use them in a wrong and inappropriate way. Many languages exsist today even though some use certain ones for a wrong purpose as shown in the Kabala.

No I am not prejudiced to the Hebrew language, however for those who want to say “Torah” for law and “Yahoshua” for Christ, then why not go all the way and learn the whole language and then only use the Hebrew language, instead of speaking part English and part Hebrew, because that is esentually what you are doing.

Hebrew was not the only language that Christ used while here on earth, so there is really nothing majical about the Hebrew language in and of itself. In Hastings Dictionary of the Bible, Revised Edition 1963, under language it says: “Language of Christ.--Four languages were in use in Palestine in the first century of our era, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, and it is at least not impossible that Jesus was acquainted to some degree with all of them; each of them, moreover, has been put foward at one time or another as the language in which Jesus habitually spoke and taught.”

I will go one further than this and say that Christ being the creater of all, would know how to fluently speak every language ever created and today communicates with His people in whatever language they speak right now. He doesn’t need a special language to mark his people because His people are marked by their obediance to Him.

Now with all that said, I will also add, that there is nothing wrong with speaking words in a different language, whether it be Hebrew or some other language, however before teaching it as a doctrine, you had better be able to prove it from scripture. If you cannot prove that a sacred names doctrine exsists from scripture, then you should not be teaching it to anyone else.