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Reasoning

AD and BC

CE and BCE

Using “BC” (Before Christ) and “AD” (Anno Domini, or Year of the Lord) forces a Jew to speak of time being calculated from the birth of “the Gentile G-d” in whose name Jews have been persecuted for nearly 2000 years. “Before the Common Era” and “Common Era” are more “neutral” and therefore less offensive.

Christ

Mashiach or Messiah

To many Christians, “Christ” is the “the Gentile G-d’s” “last name.” The word is an English transliteration of the Greek work christos, which is a translation of the Hebrew word mashiach, which means “anointed.” [See Jesus]

Christian

Believer in Messiah or
Messianic Believer

The “church” and “Christians” have persecuted the Jews for nearly 2000 years. To many Jews, anybody who is not a Jew or a Muslim is a “Christian.” Since Jews are born into Judaism, and Muslims are born into Islam, many Jews simply assume that everyone else is born into Christianity. To read an anti-Semitic article written by a person who rather accurately depicts the Jewish opinion of most “Christians,” click here. [ MORE ]

church

Believers in Messiah, Messianic Believers, or
the Holy Community
(for the Body as a whole) or congregation (for the local assembly)

Jehovah

God, Lord, Adonai, or HaShem (The Name)

“Jehovah” is a false translation of the four-letter Name of G-d that is considered too sacred to be spoken. The Hebrew language does not include the sounds that make it possible to say that word, so there is no possible way that it could be the revealed name of G-d. You will likely be thought of as a fool if you use this word. [ MORE ]

Jesus

Yeshua

“Jesus” is the name of “the Gentile G-d” in whose name Jews have been persecuted for nearly 2000 years. “Yeshua” was a Torah-observant Jewish Rabbi of the First Century CE who proclaimed to the Jews that their Kingdom is to be restored to them. Some Jews think of Him as a prophet, or at least a moral teacher. [ MORE ]

Old Testament or
Old Covenant

Tenakh or Hebrew Bible

“Testament” means “covenant” and “old” means something that has been replaced and is no longer of any value. The covenants that HaShem made with Israel are everlasting, and will therefore never be “old.” The “Christian Bible” contains the Tenakh (Genesis through Malachi) and the B'rit Chadasha (or “Renewed Covenant”).

New Testament or New Covenant

B'rit Chadasha, Renewed Covenant, or Apostolic Scriptures

See “Old Testament” above. The B'rit Chadasha is best thought of as a divinely-inspired midrash, or commentary, on the Tenakh that was written by Torah-observant Messianic Rabbis at the end of the Second Temple Period, primarily to help new Gentile converts to Messianic Judaism understand the proper interpretation of the Tenakh as they leaned Torah and halakah at the Synagogue. Inasmuch as it provides a wonderful explanation of Olam HaBa (the world after Messiah comes), it is also appropriate to use the term “Renewed Covenant” because it emphasizes the idea that HaShem has renewed and will fulfill all of His covenants with Israel.

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