God says in Philippians 2:9 says, "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name."
Common sense tells us there is only one of something, it has a unique name that really needs no translation into a different language. For example, a Rembrandt is a Rembrandt in every language. The name should remain the same across all of the languages and an explanation should be given about what or who the name is. If you are a translator, you are most likely cringing at this suggestion. If you are a lover of a certain translation of the Bible, for example, King James, you think it is good enough. You may think that using Hebrew names for God and Jesus Christ is confusing, but quite frankly, there is only them, and perhaps it's a long time coming, but we all ought to know their names.
In the Hebrew, God is YHVH. His name is so sacred that the ancient Jews would not pronounce it. If they spoke the name of God, they would say simply Ha Shem, meaning "The Name." When reading the Tanakh, YHVH is referred to as Adonai, meaning "My Lord." In Exodus 15:2, Moses and the children of Israel in the earliest known song, sang: "Yah is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation." King David used Yah as the name of God in some 17 Psalms. Psalm 150:6, "Let every thing that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!" Isaiah 38:17 originally says, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living..." Most translations, including King James, replaced "Yah" with "LORD."
The Hebrew name for Jesus Christ is Yeshua HaMashiach (some use Ha in between, meaning "the"). If man had not been so invested in changing the names into other languages for the sake of understanding, the names of Yah and Yeshua Mashiach could have been used throughout the world in all translations as the standard. Everyone would then know that when we are speaking of the one true God, his name is Yah; and the only Christ is Yeshua Mashiach.
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