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The Sacred Names: Yahweh and Yahshua



By Pastor Eli James





Within the Christian Identity Movement, there is an ongoing debate about whether we should use the original Hebrew names for our God and also for our Savior and King, Jesus Christ. The two sides of this issue are A.) The English names are good enough and we donat need to go back to the Hebrew or Aramaic to address our Divine Sovereign and B.) The original Hebrew names convey meanings which are lost in the English translation. I am an advocate of the latter position; and I am going to do my best to give all the reasons why I advocate the use of the Divine Hebrew appellations, Yahweh and Yahshua.

Let me say at the beginning that I have no objection to the use of the English ‘Jesus Christ.’ We have all grown up using this name and there is a certain reverence with which this name is spoken, so I do not wish to detract from this in any way. Also, there is a particular singularity to the name, Jesus Christ, which is shared by no other human being, past or present. There is no mistaking whom you are talking about when you invoke this name.

As a historian for my people, Israel (the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Caucasian peoples), I have come to appreciate the Hebrew Scriptures from a multi-generational standpoint. When I read the story of Adam and Eve or the story of Moses and the Exodus and the writing of the commandments in stone, I know that my ancestors were present there and that my very blood is witness to these events. I feel no sense of disconnection at all. It is as if these events happened yesterday to my own parents and to my brothers and sisters. Indeed, I feel that I was present there. Their history is my history, plain and simple.

As a bilingual writer (English and German), I understand the power of words and how difficult it is to convey the full impact of a statement when translating from one language to another. Considering all the problems of translating simple declarative sentences, when we add to this complicated clauses, figures of speech, idioms, slang, vernacular, etc., it is a wonder that we understand the intentions of the Hebrew scribes and prophets at all. Most scholars agree that the King James Version is poor translation, at best. It was written by Englishmen who had little working knowledge of spoken Hebrew or of Hebrew traditions. In addition to this problem is the fact that these translators had little or no knowledge of the true Identity of the Anglo-Saxons as the true heirs of the heritage of the Israelites. The King James Version perpetuates the absurd idea that the Jews are identical to the Israelites. Even more problematic is the fact that the prevailing worldview that these men were laboring under was the Flat Earth Theory, thus forcing them to translate God’s Word from that limited point of view.

However, knowing that our Bibles are fraught with these defects, it is easy to reconstruct the language to harmonize with reality. We simply isolate these defects and change the language accordingly. I can say that every time I have retranslated verses with these objects in mind, the Bible has become a very accurate book; and this is in terms of history, science, prophecy, archeology, linguistics, etc.

It is important to understand that the original Hebrew used by our ancient ancestors conveyed much more meaning than even modern interpreters have imagined. This is especially true of the individuals that the Bible names. Their names are not just names. Their names are trademarks which tell us what they were known for. There is a reason why Jacob was renamed Israel. There is a reason why Abram was renamed Abraham. There is a reason why Esau was renamed Edom. Esau was a Saxon (son of Isaac); but when he rejected his heritage and married into the hook-nosed Hittite race, he became a Jew and his name was changed to Edom.

Biblical names reveal much about the individual, so, to ignore their meanings is to ignore knowledge and wisdom. And the two most important names in the Bible are Yahweh and Yahshua.