Getting started

It's been a couple of weeks since I opened this blog. For a long time I have been wanting to keep a record of what I am learning in the Bible, and it seems the best way for now is here -- less chance of getting lost amongst my papers, or a computer crash killing all my documents.

None other Name

I started this train of thought and study a year ago, about the time I was reminded that the name we use for our Saviour, Jesus, is not His real name. I have known for a long time that Jesus wasn't His real name, but I had always thought it didn't matter. It's not the Name that is the whole point, is it? It's the Person! Those were my thoughts, and so I had always just let it pass.

Then I thought about the verse in Acts 4:12, a verse I had been taught as a child, that often was required as a memory verse as I was growing up:

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

So that started me thinking. What does the name "Jesus" mean? Is name important to God? Does it make a difference what name we use? I am going to attempt to find answers to these questions, and knowing how all things are connected, I know the answers will lead me to new questions, and possibly new understandings.