How did jesus get his surname "christ"?

Question

did it come from his earth parents in joe and mary or was it given to him some other way

Answer 1

The word Christ means the annointed One, Jesus was Jesus But he was also the annointed Messiah or annointed one.

Answer 2

Christ
Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered “Messiah” (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was anointed or consecrated to his great redemptive work as Prophet, Priest, and King of his people. He is Jesus the Christ (Act_17:3; Act_18:5; Mat_22:42), the Anointed One. He is thus spoken of by Isaiah (Isa_61:1), and by Daniel (Dan_9:24-26), who styles him “Messiah the Prince.”
The Messiah is the same person as “the seed of the woman” (Gen_3:15), “the seed of Abraham” (Gen_22:18), the “Prophet like unto Moses” (Deu_18:15), “the priest after the order of Melchizedek” (Psa_110:4), “the rod out of the stem of Jesse” (Isa_11:1, Isa_11:10), the “Immanuel,” the virgin's son (Isa_7:14), “the branch of Jehovah” (Isa_4:2), and “the messenger of the covenant” (Mal_3:1). This is he “of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write.” The Old Testament Scripture is full of prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ is Jesus the Great Deliverer, the Anointed One, the Saviour of men.
This name denotes that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and accredited as the Saviour of men (Heb_5:4; Isa_11:2-4; Isa_49:6; Joh_5:37; Act_2:22).
To believe that “Jesus is the Christ” is to believe that he is the Anointed, the Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent of God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is to believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian (1Co_12:3; 1Jo_5:1).

Answer 3

Dear Scott,

Christ is just one of His titles. It is not his surname but the equivalent of Messiah from Hebrew scripture.

To see where it came from read the Hebrew scripture. There are many hundreds of prophecies regarding the Messiah there. In fact Jesus was the only person EVER who had His biography written before He was born!

Answer 4

"Christ" is the Greek word (Χριστος) meaning "Anointed". The Hebrew parallel was Messiah (though that is the English spelling) It was not his last name, it was more like a title. That's why Paul often called him Christ Jesus, plus in Greek there were no rules determining in which order you put the words in a sentence. Back then they often did not have family names, they would call people after their hometown (i.e. Jesus of Nazareth, Paul of Tarsus, etc)

Answer 5

"Christ" is more of an honorific than a name, like "esquire". It is meant to imply that Jesus was the Messiah talked about in the Old Testament. When the writers wrote about Jesus, who if he existed died decades earlier, they tried to make his life fit the old prophecies which were well known at the time. Then to top it off, they called him the Christ, meaning the person fulfilling the old prophecies.

Answer 6

Christ, or in greek, Christos is used to express the Hebrew word for Messiah. ( The Chosen One from God)

Answer 7

It was given to him by the Catholic religion who were first thinking God Jr.

Answer 8

'Christ' is the surname of God, also known as YHWH Christ

Answer 9

Joseph Christ was his father I guess.

Answer 10

Jesus - His Titles

Though Jesus is mentioned by name in twenty-five places in the Holy Quran, he is also addressed with respect as: Ibn Maryam, meaning "The son of Mary"; and as the Maseeh (in Hebrew it is the Messiah), which is translated as "Christ". He is also known as Abdullah, "The servant of Allah"; and as Rasul u Allah, the messenger of Allah.

http://www.jamaat.net/cis/ChristInIslam.html

"Christ" Not a Name

The word "Christ" is derived from the Hebrew word Messiah, Arabic Maseeh. Root word masaha, meaning "to rub", "to massage", "to anoint". Priests and kings were anointed when being consecrated to their offices. But in its translated Grecian form, "Christ" seems unique: befitting Jesus only.

Christians like to translate names into their own language; like Cephas to "Peter" , Messiah to "Christ". How do they do that? Very easily. Messiah in Hebrew means "Anointed". The Greek word for anointed is Christos. Just lop off the 'os' from Christos, and you are left with "Christ"; a unique name!

Christos means "Anointed", and anointed means appointed in its religious connotation. Jesus, peace and blessing be upon him, was appointed (anointed) at his baptism by John the Baptist, as God's Messenger. Every prophet of God is so anointed or appointed. The Holy Bible is replete with the "anointed" ones. In the original Hebrew, he was made a Messiah. Let us keep to the English translation "anointed."

Not only were prophets and priests and kings anointed (Christos-ed), but horns, and cherubs and lamp-posts also.

"I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar ..." (Genesis 31:13)

"If the priest that is anointed do sin ..." (Leviticus 4:3)

"And Moses... anointed the tabernacle and all things that was therein..." (Leviticus 8:100)

"..the Lord shall...exalt the horn of his anointed" (I Samuel 2:10)

"Thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus..." (Isaiah 45:1)

"Thou art the anointed cherub..." (Ezekiel 28:14)

There are an hundred more such references in the Holy Bible. Every time you come across the word "anointed" in your Bible, you can take it that that word would be christos in the Greek translations, and if you take the same liberty with the word that the Christians have done, you will have Christ Cherub, Christ Cyrus, Christ Priest and Christ Pillar, ...etc.

Some Titles Exclusive

Although, every prophet of God is an anointed one of God, a Messiah, the title Maseeh or Messiah, or its translation "Christ" is exclusively reserved for Jesus, the son of Mary, in both Islam and in Christianity. This is not unusual in religion. There are certain other honorific titles which may be applied to more than one prophet, yet being made exclusive to one by usage: like "Rasulullah", meaning "Messenger of God", which title is applied to both Moses (19:51) and Jesus (61:6) in the Holy Quran. Yet "Rasullullah" has become synonymous only with Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, among Muslims.

Every prophet is indeed a "Friend of God", but its Arabic equivalent "Khalillullah" is exclusively associated with Father Abraham. This does not mean that the others are not God's friends. "Kaleemullah", meaning "One who spoke with Allah" is never used for anyone other than Moses, yet we believe that God spoke with many of His messengers, including Jesus and Muhammed, may the peace and blessings of God be upon all His servants. Associating certain titles with certain personages only, does not make them exclusive or unique in any way. We honor all in varying terms.

Whilst the good news was being announced (verse 45 above) Mary was told that her unborn child will be called Jesus, that he would be the Christ, a "Word" from God, and that...

"He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous." (3:46)

"At length she brought the (babe) to her people carrying him. They said: 'O Mary! truly a strange thing has thou brought!'. 'O sister of Aaron!, thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!' " (The Holy Quran 19:27-28)