Besides Jesus,Was there more then one "Messiah"?

Question

just curious to know

Answer 1

first off: the term :messiah means nothing but "annointed" in ancient aramiac which was the native language of jesus. this was used ONLY for those were the kings of Israel. the only reason for jesus to be annointed by john was because he was the bloodline king of the jews and hence the reason, along with him saying he was God and challenging the divinity of the roman emperor, for his execution.
when daniel first wrote of the savior he meant it in the present tense, one who would free them from captivity from babylon. since they went free this made the prophecy for it fitting jesus to be moot. prophecies in that time and culture were written for the IMMEDIATE NOT FORTHCOMING future and scholars will tell you the same. what happened was the gospels were written when rome trashed jerusalem, and st paul and his followers wrote the gospels to protest and challenge rome, and used the old testament to convince people that jesus was their spiritual savior. this lead to the roman emperor no longer being worshipped as a god which was a serious blow to his power and status. but this doesn't make jesus' teachings not worth following.

Answer 2

he Messianic expectation is found through out Mesopotamian literature and recorded belief systems.

If you could get 20 or so people together they probably did at least two things,

1. Call themselves a tribe

2. Create or borrow some sort of Messianic expectation. Basically, people want to get things for free.

The typical messiah would ride into camp on a fine white Arabian, use his powers to take property and goods from some trib that had them and turn same over th the tribe with the expectation.

Pretty self serving really but very human. The Hebrews were no exception. They are still awaiting their messiah but the New Jews, so to speak, declared that their messiah had finally arrived and the various stores were recreated in the forth century Rome to provide the basis for the first Catholic bible and the rest, as they say, is history!

Answer 3

The word Messiah means savior so in one sense, yes. Their have been many personal messiahs for people who have needed help.

But in terms of being the Messiah. No, Jesus is the only Messiah. Savior Of Humanity.

Answer 4

In the Bible, I think the runner-up Messiah would be King David, who was looked upon as something of a deliverer of his people from all of the warring tribes surrounding Israel at the time. Jesus is often referred to as "the son of David", not just because he was in David's bloodline, but also that Jesus' role as Messiah was looked upon as being a direct parallel to that of his ancestor. Although Jesus was meant to be a spiritual deliverer, not a military or political one. Jesus allowed the disenfranchised of his day who were considered unclean to re-enter the temple again so that they could worship God - he healed their afflictions for this purpose alone, according to some scholars. Oh, and he died on the cross too and was, according to many, arisen from the dead. A lot of people talk about that part of his Messiah-hood too. :)

The Bible is one interesting set of stories, even if you don't believe in God. It's full of interesting parallels like the one I described.

Answer 5

The word Messiah comes from the Hebrew root verb ma·shach′, meaning “smear,” and so “anoint.” (Ex 29:2, 7) Messiah (ma·shi′ach) means “anointed” or “anointed one.” The Greek equivalent is Khri·stos′, or Christ.—Mt 2:4

There were other people in the Bible who were the "anointed" of God, such as David.
However, the Bible foretold the coming of the one whom God would send as the Messiah, or Christ. This promised One would be anointed, that is, appointed by God to a special position. Jesus fulfilled all of the "Messianic" prophecies.
The special position Jesus had was to buy back humans from sin and death by providing his perfect human life as a ransom sacrifice. When on earth, the theme of his ministry was God's Kingdom. Jesus is now King of this Kingdom. It is by means of this Messianic Kingdom that God will return the earth to a paradise, just like he had originally purposed before Adam and Eve sinned.
For a more detailed explanation you can read the following article:
http://www.watchtower.org/e/200612/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/200612/article_03.htm

Answer 6

According to Judaism, the Jews don't believe that their Messiah was ever going to be a deity, but, a man...a WARRIOR....and, they claim that several had been thought to be the man, but, all had failed to fulfill all prophecy....even Jesus, because, He was claiming to NOT be "just a man" and furthermore, He died....raising again was never taught to them.....(*yes, I know, Jesus Himself never claimed to be God or A "god" of any kind, but, since the Bible states He was the Son of God (and He is, lol) it's as though He said it Himself)

LOL...recently I felt "challenged" by some whom were in Judaism to read their Tanakh/Torah I've been doing so in more depth then I had before.... I had forgotten half that I knew from research almost 20 years ago :)

If anyone is interested in reading the texts that the Jews hold Holy to compare to the KJV OT that we have, here's some links:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/index.html

http://torahclass.com/

http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm

Answer 7

This is difficult to answer.

Those who practice Judaism do not believe he was the Messiah.

In other cultures, there have appeared Messianic figures in their religions that have taught many lessons similar to those Jesus taught in the Bible.

In Buddhism, one could argue that each incarnation, Boddhisatva, of the Buddha is a Messiah of sorts.

In Hinduism, Krishna.

But, if you are adhering to a traditional, mainstream "Christian" view, then, no. He was the only one.

Answer 8

Only one God sent HIs Son Only one Son begotten of the Father Jesus Only one willing lay his life down on Earth for all Jesus for all those who believe and those who choose not to. No other Messiah so full of compassion and love for His creation

Answer 9

There was only ONE Messiah that was prophecied in several places in the Old Testament. Christ has fulfilled those prophecies to a 'T' hands down.

If anyone else claims that there is more than one true Messiah, he is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.

Answer 10

no. Messiah meaning savior. There is only ONE who can save mankind. You can give anyone a name. But there is only one person who can do the things that Jesus can do.