What does the H stand for in Jesus H Christ's middle name?

Answer 1

Are you honestly that stupid? Im sorry... Seriously dude, why post this in the religion and spirituality section. Ask yahoo to start a new section called "Upstart antagonistic ****hole athiest section." So that you can be as intolerant and ignorant as you like without any of us ever having to look at it? You can have all the enjoyment you like at no one's actual expense. No? That would actually make some sence right? And we can't have any of that now can we?

Answer 2

From the Catholic Encyclopedia at NewAdvent.org (partial):

"IHS- A monogram of the name of Jesus Christ. From the third century the names of our Saviour are sometimes shortened, particularly in Christian inscriptions (IH and XP, for Jesus and Christus). In the next century the "sigla" (chi-rho) occurs not only as an abbreviation but also as a symbol. From the beginning, however, in Christian inscriptions the nomina sacra, or names of Jesus Christ, were shortened by contraction, thus IC and XC or IHS and XPS for Iesous Christos."

It is still common to see the 'IHS' especially on a 'board' or 'scroll' on crucifixes directly above the Body of Christ. Most likely, 'Jesus H Christ' originated with people who didn't know but assumed that the 'I' stood for Jesus and the 'S' or 'C' stood for Christ, but couldn't come up with a good guess for the 'H'.

As others have pointed out, Christ is not a name at all, but a title; literally: Jesus, the Christ.

Answer 3

Jesus H. Christ is an occasion of slang serving as a profanity.[a million] IHC-monogram-Jesus-medievalesque.svg The expression dates to a minimum of the previous due nineteenth century, even however in accordance to Mark Twain it exchange into already previous in 1850.[2][choose citation to verify] making use of the call of Jesus Christ as an oath has been person-friendly for many centuries, however the proper origins of the letter H interior the expression Jesus H. Christ are imprecise. on a similar time as many motives have been proposed, some severe and a few no longer, the main broadly customary derivation is from the divine monogram of Christian symbolism. the logo, derived from the 1st 3 letters of the Greek call of Jesus (??????), is transliterated iota-eta-sigma: IHS, ??? (with lunate sigma), JHS or JHC. because of the fact the transliteration IHS gave upward push to the backronym Iesus Hominum Salvator (Latin for "Jesus, savior of adult men"), that's a possibility that JHC further introduced approximately Jesus Harnaldo Christ,[3] Harold coming from the mispronunciation of the be conscious "hallowed" of the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father who paintings in heaven hallowed be thy call." The H has additionally been reported to stand for "Holy."

Answer 4

Well, in Greek Jesus is spelled I H S.

I'd say Jesus H Christ is a modified curse used in the presence of women, like "darn" or "gosh".

Also, Christ is Greek for "Annointed King". If you read the NT it is always Christ Jesus and not the other way around.

Answer 5

Jesus had no middle name.
Fact is, he didn't have a last name.
Christ is not his last name.
He was the Christ, the Messiah, the promised one.
Chances are the 'H' came along because some crazies could use the excuse they were not therefore taking the Lord's name in vain.

Answer 6

There is no H in Christ's name. He does not have a middle initial. People who swear in the Lord's name have done that.

Answer 7

He was called
Yeshua Ha Mashia
Jesus the Messiah
But that would not make 'the' His middle name.

Answer 8

Harold

Answer 9

Harold

Answer 10

It's just to prolong the prayer. People call upon Him all the time and don't even realize it. Jesusssss H Chriiiiiisssst. I always say, "keep calling!" But if I had to guess, I would say the H stood for "Help me!"

Answer 11

Herbert