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John 17:11 surprised me; I'm not aware of any Church Father or theologian at any stage in church history who has argued that 'Yeshua' was a name of God the Father (but maybe I'm overlooking something).
I have come to believe that Jesus was given the Father's Name according to John 17:
6 “
I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; 8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received
them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. 9 I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; 10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 I am no longer in the world; and
yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father,
keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We
are. 12
While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
So rocking the boat - I now believe 'Jesus' is in fact the Father's Name. (happy to be corrected.)
Regarding the passage in John 17 above - in my view this does not imply that we all end up with the same status as the Father and the Christ - this is not a conclusion I have made.
Looking at the passage carefully there are two distinct unities spoken of.
First the unity between the Father and the Son, Second the unity between the Son and His Body of believers.
Consider the difference - the risen Christ shares the Omniscience with the Father. He sees every detail of the Glory of God in totality. That unity of understanding is only experienced in the Trinity.
But for us, that is not the case. - a delight in our resurrected state is to enjoy the ongoing appreciation of His Glory like the 24 elders who have been bowing before the throne in eternity - looking up and seeing more of His Glory and bowing down again and again and again for eternity.
So for us in the unity of the Son - ongoing revelation of His Glory in eternity
For Him in the unity of the Father - full Knowledge of all of His Glory since His ascension.
Now the issue of recognising the Name of the Father given to the Son is a different issue that is rarely discussed.
We worship the "God Who Saves" - Yehoshua in the Hebrew, the Name He gave to the Son - the Name above every name. In English the Name of Jesus.
That does not make us equal to God, in case anyone claims it does.
The Father and Jesus are One...
And always were...
what is the boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe.
These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly
places, 21
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and made Him head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. (Eph 1)
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross. 9 For this reason also
God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth (Phil 2)
Jesus = Heb. Yeshua which comes from the Hebrew Yehoshua and simply means 'God delivers'.
This is the Name above every name.
