Christ/Christianity in the Bible?

Question

I was just wondering whether the words "Christ" & "Christianity" are mentioned in the Bible? If so, where?
& if not, why do you call yourselves Christians?
I'm just wondering.

& can we not have annoying waste-of-time answers please.

Also, there is no proof the Muhammad was this false prophet you speak of. try "you believe he was the false prophet"

& Muhammadan is what other people called us, we have always been known as Muslims & our religion is Islam. We may be followers of Muhammad, but since we "submit to the will of God" we call ourselves Muslim.

& john_d_ayer, thanks, that's the kind of answer I was looking for.

Answer 1

Acts 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Answer 2

All nontrinitarians take the position that the doctrine of the earliest form of Christianity was not Trinitarian. Typically, nontrinitarians explain that Christianity was altered as a direct and indirect consequence of the edicts of Constantine the Great, which resulted in the eventual adoption of Trinitarian Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. Because it was at this time of a dramatic shift in Christianity's status that the doctrine of the Trinity attained its definitive development, nontrinitarians typically find the doctrine questionable. It is in this light that the Nicene Creed is seen by nontrinitarians as an essentially political document, resulting from the subordination of true doctrine to State interests by the leaders of Catholic Church, so that the church became, in their view, an extension of the Roman Empire.

Although Nontrinitarian beliefs continued to multiply, and among some people (such as the Lombards in the West) it was dominant for hundreds of years afterward, the Trinitarians gained the immense power of the Roman Empire. Nontrinitarians typically argue that the primitive beliefs of the Christianity were systematically suppressed (often to the point of death), and that the historical record, perhaps also including the Scriptures of the New Testament, was altered as a consequence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism


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Answer 3

christ occurs 555 times in 522 verses too many to list.

Christian twice- Act 26:28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

1Pe 4:16 Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Christianity- None

To be a christian is to be christ-like but modern day christianity doesnt. They do away with most of the things he did. Like Luk 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Answer 4

The guy who answered previously is right of course that the words 'Christ' and 'Christians' are found in the bible. However, I suspect that you might want an academic perspective so the answer to that is while they are found in the King James Bible they are not found in the original bible which is written in either Hebrew or Aramaic.

This is because in the Tanakh (Christians in the West calls Old Testament) employs the Semitic language so the word that would have been used to refer to the "anointed" one was Messiah.

Why called christians? I guess translated from the word "Messiah" (Hebrew/Aramaic) into "Christo" (Koine Greek) and finally into the westernized "Christ" - which I guess eventually led to the followers being called Christians.

Answer 5

The word Christ is used 537 times in the KJV.

The word Christian appears 3 times. Even if the word Christian did not appear in the Bible it would not change the word used to describe worshipers of Christ.

Most languages, Latin, English, etc, are made up of word parts.

Lets take a couple of easy ones that most people know. Democrat. Demo means people or society. Crat mean government so democrat means people who govern or governing by people.

Christ means "anointed one" ian means "those of" so Christian means "those of The anointed one" the same way Hawaiian means "those of Hawaii".

Answer 6

Act 26:28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

1Pe 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Christ is mentioned lots of times in the Bible

Answer 7

Yes.
Christ is in there many times: It is from the greek word for "annointed".
The word Christian appears in Acts 11:26:
"and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch."

EDIT: Whoever gave me a thumbs down: This answer is perfectly accurate. Are you just an anti-Catholic bigot?

Answer 8

Act 18:24, 284 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, [and] mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus...For he mightily convinced the Jews, [and that] publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

1Cor 15:3-4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures

2Ti 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.


Mat.15:8 - 8See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.

Col.2:8 - 8See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.



Here are a few but there are many more

Answer 9

The Christ is one of the name for the Lord our God. We call ourselves Christians because we try to follow in his path. He died for our sins so that we may live forever through him.

Answer 10

Christ is in EVERY book of the NT accept one.We are called Christians in the book of Acts ,first called Christians at Antioch.In ALL of Paul's letters we are called saints.The catholic cult perverts the word saint.