Was Christ a Christian? Did Jesus PBUH ever used the word "Christ" to refer to himself?

Question

Remember he spoke Aramaic. Did Jesus follow Christianity?Was he a Christian?

Answer 1

Jesus would not have spoken Greek. "Christ" is a word of Greek origin, so he wouldn't have called himself Christ. However, the word "Christ" is a translation of the Hebrew Mashiach. It's probably the same or a similar word in Aramaic. Mashiach is Messiah. It means "Anointed One." It was most often used to refer to kings, but could also refer to a priest that had been anointed, or anyone that had been anointed, for that matter.

Of course, a particular "Mashiach" came to be awaited by the Jewish people - one who would remove the tyrannical rule of Rome and restore sovereignty and peace to Israel.

Jesus may well have referred to himself as the Mashiach. It is hard to know, because the Gospels were written down quite a long time after Jesus's death. I would guess that it is likely that he may have at some point thought of himself as the Mashiach, because he was, afterall, killed by the Roman government for being a threat to the sovereignty of Rome. In other words, anyone who claimed to be the Messiah was essentially claiming to be the rightful King of Israel, and this was a threat to the Roman ruler. There was obviously something they considered threatening about Jesus or they would not have killed him.

Even if Jesus did call himself the Messiah, he was not a "Christian." He was a Jew. And he believed like a Jew, not like a Christian. I do not believe, as a student of religion, that Jesus believed himself to be the divine Son of God. He may have called himself "Son of God" but that just means a child of God, like everyone is. It in no way meant he was divine. A Jewish audience would not have inferred divinity from the titles "Messiah," "Son of God" or "Son of Man."

Jesus taught that the people should obey the Torah. His teachings were in line with the Torah. He was born and died a Jew.

Answer 2

Did He ever use the word "Christ" to describe Himself? Probably not, since "Christ" is a Greek derivative and Jesus probably did not speak much (if any) Greek.

But He did refer to Himself by other terms that are the equivalent of "Christ" -- including "Son of Man" and "Messiah."

In Matthew 16, Simon Peter acknowledged to Jesus that "you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." In reply, Jesus praised Peter and named him the Rock upon whom He would build His Church.

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Answer 3

Here is one place that he told Peter that he was correct when Peter called him the Christ..
Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 16:20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
Mat 26:63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
Mat 26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Angels announced it at his birth.
Luk 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
Luk 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Here the demons knew that Jesus is the Christ.
Luk 4:41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

The greek references here are interpreted as: anointed, that is, the Messiah I looked them up in the greek concordance.

Answer 4

Nope.

He was Jewish.

He spoke Greek, probably Latin, Hebrew and, yes, a form of Aramaic

He was a circumsized, Bar Mitzavahed, wine drinking, good Jewish boy who liked to argue with the Pharasess in the Temple.

Answer 5

Judging from your display name, you are a Muslim. If you are a Muslim you should already know that Jesus (PBUH) was not a Christian. He never referred to himself as Christ. He was a messenger of God. I believe that he is a Muslim. If you are a Muslim, you should know that. I hope you find this useful.

Salaam ^_^

Answer 6

jesus was jewish. christ is a word that means something along the lines of 'messiah', but chrisianity is what we now call jesus' teachings and following.

Answer 7

no , christianity didnt start til about 50 yrs after his death, and christ is a greek word meaning a good man or holy man.

I AM

Answer 8

You must like to read:

Ignatius of Antioch



"Ignatius, also called Theophorus, to the Church at Ephesus in Asia . . . predestined from eternity for a glory that is lasting and unchanging, united and chosen through true suffering by the will of the Father in Jesus Christ our God" (Letter to the Ephesians 1 [A.D. 110]).

"For our God, Jesus Christ, was conceived by Mary in accord with God’s plan: of the seed of David, it is true, but also of the Holy Spirit" (ibid., 18:2).

"[T]o the Church beloved and enlightened after the love of Jesus Christ, our God, by the will of him that has willed everything which is" (Letter to the Romans 1 [A.D. 110]).


Aristides



"[Christians] are they who, above every people of the earth, have found the truth, for they acknowledge God, the Creator and maker of all things, in the only-begotten Son and in the Holy Spirit" (Apology 16 [A.D. 140]).


Tatian the Syrian



"We are not playing the fool, you Greeks, nor do we talk nonsense, when we report that God was born in the form of a man" (Address to the Greeks 21 [A.D. 170]).


Melito of Sardis



"It is no way necessary in dealing with persons of intelligence to adduce the actions of Christ after his baptism as proof that his soul and his body, his human nature, were like ours, real and not phantasmal. The activities of Christ after his baptism, and especially his miracles, gave indication and assurance to the world of the deity hidden in his flesh. Being God and likewise perfect man, he gave positive indications of his two natures: of his deity, by the miracles during the three years following after his baptism, of his humanity, in the thirty years which came before his baptism, during which, by reason of his condition according to the flesh, he concealed the signs of his deity, although he was the true God existing before the ages" (Fragment in Anastasius of Sinai’s The Guide 13 [A.D. 177]).


Irenaeus



"For the Church, although dispersed throughout the whole world even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and from their disciples the faith in one God, Father Almighty, the creator of heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them; and in one Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who became flesh for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who announced through the prophets the dispensations and the comings, and the birth from a Virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the bodily ascension into heaven of the beloved Christ Jesus our Lord, and his coming from heaven in the glory of the Father to reestablish all things; and the raising up again of all flesh of all humanity, in order that to Jesus Christ our Lord and God and Savior and King, in accord with the approval of the invisible Father, every knee shall bend of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth . . . " (Against Heresies 1:10:1 [A.D. 189]).

"Nevertheless, what cannot be said of anyone else who ever lived, that he is himself in his own right God and Lord . . . may be seen by all who have attained to even a small portion of the truth" (ibid., 3:19:1).


Clement of Alexandria



"The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning—for he was in God—and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things" (Exhortation to the Greeks 1:7:1 [A.D. 190]).

"Despised as to appearance but in reality adored, [Jesus is] the expiator, the Savior, the soother, the divine Word, he that is quite evidently true God, he that is put on a level with the Lord of the universe because he was his Son" (ibid., 10:110:1).

Answer 9

Please dont use PBUH after the christs name. I find it quite offensive. Give god his credit.