the Self-Realized master, Jesus of Nazareth some how got the name JESUS CHRIST. How and from where this word "Christ" came. Is it from the Lord Krishna (CHRIST-NA)?
2006-08-19 01:55:27 · 15 answers · asked by Madhu t 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God the Son got it from God the Father.
2006-08-19 02:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by Carl 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus Christ - the Son of God?
As we face the claims of Christ, there are only four possibilities. He was either a liar, a lunatic, a legend, or the Truth. If we say He is not the Truth, we are automatically affirming one of the other three alternatives, whether we realize it or not.
(1) One possibility is that Jesus lied when He said He was God--that He knew He was not God, but deliberately deceived His hearers to lend authority to His teaching. Few, if any, seriously hold this position. Even those who deny His deity affirm that He was a great moral teacher. They fail to realize those two statements are a contradiction. Jesus could hardly be a great moral teacher if, on the most crucial point of His teaching--His identity--He was a deliberate liar.
(2) A kinder, though no less shocking possibility, is that He was sincere but self-deceived. We have a name for a person today who thinks he is God. That name is lunatic, and it certainly would apply to Christ if He were deceived on this all-important issue. But as we look at the life of Christ, we see no evidence of the abnormality and imbalance we find in a deranged person. Rather, we find the greatest composure under pressure.
(3) The third alternative is that all of the talk about His claiming to be God is a legend--that what actually happened was that His enthusiastic followers, in the third and fourth centuries, put words into His mouth He would have been shocked to hear. Were He to return, He would immediately repudiate them.
The legend theory has been significantly refuted by many discoveries of modern archeology. These have conclusively shown that the four biographies of Christ were written within the lifetime of contemporaries of Christ. Some time ago Dr. William F. Albright, world-famous archaeologist now retired from Johns Hopkins University, said that there was no reason to believe that any of the Gospels were written later than A.D. 70. For a mere legend about Christ, in the form of the Gospel, to have gained the circulation and to have had the impact it had, without one shred of basis in fact, is incredible.
For this to have happened would be as fantastic as for someone in our own time to write a biography of the late John F. Kennedy and in it say he claimed to be God, to forgive people's sins, and to have risen from the dead. Such a story is so wild it would never get off the ground because there are still too many people around who knew Kennedy. The legend theory does not hold water in the light of the early date of the Gospel manuscripts.
(4) The only other alternative is that Jesus spoke the truth. From one point of view, however, claims don't mean much. Talk is cheap. Anyone can make claims. There have been others who have claimed to be God. I could claim to be God, and you could claim to be God, but the question all of us must answer is, "What credentials do we bring to substantiate our claim?" In my case it wouldn't take you five minutes to disprove my claim. It probably wouldn't take too much more to dispose of yours. But when it comes to Jesus of Nazareth, it's not so simple. He had the credentials to back up His claim. He said, "Even though you do not believe Me, believe the evidence of the miracles, that you may learn and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father" (John 10:38).
2006-08-19 02:03:39 · answer #2 · answered by poorboychristian 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christ means Messiah. When Jesus was baptized in the River Jordon by John, the moment he came up from the water, he was then acknowledged by God's voice directly, that he was now the Messiah. This was in fulfillment that Jesus was sent to do his father's will in preaching about the Kingdom that would bring an end to all the suffering and restore the earth to a paradise as was originally intended from the beginning.
2006-08-19 02:03:53 · answer #3 · answered by Gail B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our Lord Jesus got the name Christ because he was Crossified in order to save us from sins. That's why he is called Jesus Christ not for any other reason
2006-08-19 02:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by Alfred 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ English word for "the Savior"
Christian English word meaning the follower of the Christ!
2006-08-19 05:57:52 · answer #5 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "Christ" means annointed one of God.
Jesus being the Savior and Son of God is the annointed one of God. So, the title, "Jesus Christ" really means, Jesus the Annonited one of God.
It come from the Greek and no, Krishna has absolutely NOTHING to do with it.
2006-08-19 02:04:17 · answer #6 · answered by divprod 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus claimed the title himself, as you can read in the following Bible passage:
Luk 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit, into Galilee: and the fame of him went out through the whole country.
Luk 4:15 And he taught in their synagogues and was magnified by all.
Luk 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day: and he rose up to read.
Luk 4:17 And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written:
Luk 4:18 The spirit of the Lord is upon me.
Wherefore he hath ANOINTED ME to preach the
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gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,
Luk 4:19 To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of reward.
Luk 4:20 And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
Luk 4:21 And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears.
2006-08-19 07:51:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not only jesus christ got his name as christ this name is like higher celestial position in heavens like therebis general in the army so are many christs in this office holding that position we don't where it come from probably humans created this label on this planet .when you looked onness everything has no label or comparison in the now and we are all gods godesses of one Great force which don't want to be worshiped or distinguished or favored simply all that is .is nothigness or voidness its is like the air you can't shape or condition any way.since we are all sons and daughters of most high jesus can't be the son of men the diffrence is between jesus and you he is more ever of himself tha n you or me.the human are the most powerful beings on this planet you can move the mountins and we have dormant sleeping powers in us jesus said you can do the greater things than i can do so there open field to play beyond our expactotions bles you and pleasnt journey on this planet god bless you and see you in heaven one day when i 'll teleport and visit how you doing
2006-08-19 02:14:32 · answer #8 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm, no. The origins are in the Greek "kristos", which means "anointed/chosen one", and was the term used by 1st century Christians to describe Jesus.
"Christ" is a title, not a proper name.
2006-08-19 02:02:18 · answer #9 · answered by Ryan D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was a noble messenger of God and he never said that he was God himself. This Father and Son concept got introduced after Jesus went away.
The Father, The Son, The holy spirit = One God????
Whom do I pray to? Do they ever fight with each other? Do they disagree? Imagine 3 presidents running a country.
2006-08-19 02:17:09 · answer #10 · answered by The Analyst 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from christos(greek) meaning the anointed.
thats all.
he is also named yesus, yesu ,yeshuah, esu, esau in various other language. He is Eesa in arabic.
but to think bout it, most of the other prophet is anointed so do kings and leaders
2006-08-19 02:01:11 · answer #11 · answered by fadil z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋