PROBLEM 1: Sacred Name teachings don't follow Yeshua's teachings and example.

✨ BIBLE REVIEWS holylanguage.c... ✨ If I were to ask "who are you", what would you say? How long before your relationship with Yeshua came up? Probably not long. Scripture says we're "in" the Messiah - that we've been immersed into his death, burial, and resurrection, and that we're one spirit with him. We as a community have the same kind of relationship with the Son of Man that a girl has with her fiancé. It's deep, passionate, and consuming! I think we can agree that our identity is all wrapped up in Yeshua. That means our core identity is as disciples of Rabbi Jesus. We see this reflected in Scripture, also. We're called "disciples" over 250 times in the New Testament. We're only called "Christians" or "Messianic" 3 times.
So the big question is, what do disciples do? What's our job? "Follow me." That was easy. But Yeshua didn't just invite people to follow him. He also talked about why he wanted people to follow him. The big idea was for his disciples to follow him around and spend so much time with him that they'd end up becoming like him.
A disciple is not above his teacher - but everyone, after they've been fully trained, will be like their teacher. ~Yeshua, Luke 6:40
So as disciples, the only thing we care about is becoming like Yeshua. Let's look at one more Scripture about our job as disciples before we look at how all this relates to Sacred Name teachings and translations.
By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. ~Yochanan, his first letter 2:5-6
Walk as he walked. Remember that John and Jesus were both Jewish. So to fully understand their words, sometimes you need to look at the Jewish context of them. And sure enough, there is something really special about this concept from a Jewish perspective! The Hebrew word to walk is halach. From that verb we get the noun halacha. So, how you halach is your halacha. This is a very meaningful word in Judaism because it's the word for Jewish law, for how the Jewish community interprets and "walks out" the Torah. So what John is telling us is that we as a community get our halacha from Yeshua and how he walked out his Father's word.
So let's bring all this home now. Sacred Name teachings say that you should try to pronounce God's name instead of following the Jewish and Christian traditions of saying "Adonai" or "Lord". And if you just read Sacred Name Bibles as they're written, most of them will get you saying some version of God's name also. So the question is, what did Yeshua do? Let's break this question down into three questions. What did Yeshua in public, what did he do in private, and what did he teach people to do?
So firstly, what did Yeshua do in public. "Yeshua came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, "The Spirit of Adonai is upon me, because he has anointed me..." And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?" (Luke 4:16-22) We know from this story that our Rabbi regularly went to synagogue and publicly read from the Scriptures. So the question is, when he did that did he read God's name as it was written, or did he say "Adonai"? We know that whatever he did was in keeping with Jewish custom, or it wouldn't have said that everyone spoke well of him.
Thankfully, we do know what the custom was from from the historical writings available to us from that time period. This is an issue that was discussed in the Mishnah, and also by Philo. Before we look at the actual quotes, here's a quick overview of those two sources. The Mishnah is the record of how the Jewish community interpreted the Torah two thousand years ago. It was originally memorized and communicated word of mouth, and was finally written down in the late 100s. The Mishnah is widely accepted by the academic world and by the Jewish community as a historically accurate source, so its testimony carries great weight. Philo, whose Hebrew name was Yedidyah HaKohen, was a Jewish philosopher. He lived in Alexandria, Egypt when baby Yeshua was...KEEP READING: holylanguage.o...
Please watch this video and consider the evidence if you're Messianic or Hebrew Roots, or if you follow Sacred Name teachings or use a Sacred Name Bible including The Scriptures (ISR), Aramaic English New Testament (AENT), HalleluYah Scriptures, Hebraic Roots Bible, Restoration Study Bible (RSB), Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures (MATS), Eth-Cepher, the Besorah of Yahusha (BOY), the New Messianic Version, or any other Bible that writes the Father's name as Yahweh, Yahveh, Yehovah, Yahuwah, or Yahuah, and the Son's name as Yahshua, Yahushua, Yahusha, or Yahawashi.