Nonsense. I don’t think one mention of a Jewish term is Judaizing in the ancient context. It’s a type of private judaizing you feel the need to do, strangely.
Obviously judaizing was a movement in the early church to force circumcision, Kosher rules, and Rabbinic approaches on Christianity. Please, Yesh, for the love of Pete, don’t be this condescending. You can think me odd, strange, wrong, but not stupid. The Catholics took the Eucharist and looked in the wrong direction and sought to make the Eucharist unleavened thinking they were re-creating the Last Supper in the Jewish Seder Passover setup. That was my original point. It’s a weak, Jewish approach to something
But to Jew-up the Church using Hebrew names is a type of Judaizing, not the entirety of it or the context of the problem we see in Acts of course. You never addressed my question—where does it end? Instead of Theotokos I can call her Mother Miriam? Is it wrong and immoral? No. Is it improper and inconsistent with what the Church has done to this point? Yes. Could I start saying “Adonai have mercy!” 40 times a day? Yes. But it’s goofy. Lord works fine. It’s a type of Judaizing to think I need to Jew-up names and terms like that to some point. Is it the level of Judaizing as asking my priest to force circumcision and Kosher rules and Bar Mitzvas? No. But the need to Jew things up is odd.
So my question still stands, which you don’t answer....at what point are you willing to say this is goofy and off? Could we post in TAW calling the Church “ecclesia,” the Greek term, and quit saying church? Miriam, Yohannon, Elohim, etc. maybe I could call my priest Presbyteros Georgios instead of Father George?
Where do you suggest we draw the line on this unusual need to call names and terms in ancient vocabulary?
And could you cite a place where the Fathers call the Lord “Yeshua” and suggest we follow suit? Did our Father Among the Saints suggest this? If so, I yield and you got me. If not, your own private proclivities toward Jewish things moved you to do something the Church doesn’t do, which is indeed odd.
I think you’re a good guy, definitely Orthodox and usually right-on. You are bright with a good heart and I value your contributions in here. I just have never understood this aspect of how you see things. No moral judgement....
Again it is obvious you do not know what the original intent of judaizing was. You have an altered view. You seem to think using any Hebrew term is Judaizing, which is ridiculous. Scripture was written in Greek by Jews. Matthew was likely written in Hebrew originally. Jesus is not a straight English transliteration of Yeshua or Yehoshua, Joshua would be closest. Remember we were talking about the RCC using unleavened bread which you called Judaizing. You brought up using Yeshua, His original Name, was Judaizing also. Yes, very strange indeed!