His name isn't a spell...that's something that's been worked into my heart time and again.
Have you considered that the word "name" means more than just what someone is called?
In the name of King George would mean what? Doing something in the "King's name".
That is where believers should start in my view and it isn't really taught for whatever reason. "
ask in my name..." doesn't just mean adding "in Jesus name" at the end of a prayer followed by amen...
I'm not trying to knock people that do this or anything but it's not the words themselves so be careful about that becoming rote. It's a personal prayer, personalize it...it's to a person
Touching whether
Jesus is correct or not and where it actually came from is "probably" all semantics. My name is different in other languages and it still means me...My name doesn't function in Spanish without a change, it doesn't fit the language.
I think, in general, we should operate within whatever the spoken language is in a culture lest we sound pretentious. If in private prayer it's a super big deal (it is to me) then work out your own salvation there. You aren't alone in the query but it's kind of personal and I don't think there's anything "sinister" about the English translation of His name beyond probably English itself. It's weird and I'm a native speaker.
I'll give a super silly example. Suppose that I had no interest in saying anything Egyptian but I speak English. On is a city in ancient Egypt (Genesis)...how am I supposed to speak English then? With extreme and likely impossible difficulty.
There are a good few other coincidental anomalies within English that contrast with biblical language and noticing them is no problem on a personal level (I don't think) but publicly drawing attention to them is inappropriate to me. Most people wouldn't ever think of a certain word outside of its defined context and if you decided to point it out, please please ask yourself what spirit you are doing so in and what
good purpose there is in it.
I could go "on" and "on" about this but unless this is a crisis point for you, I won't.
