Does a messiah have to be a relative of a god?

Question

or can a god just send a human as the messiah. Is that enough? Why or why not, please no cut/paste quotes from the scriptures, I've read all even non judea/christian, try to give me your free thought and opinion, I know its hard for some but please try, I know you can do it.

Answer 1

You want an authoritative answer, but you don't want quotes from the authoritative source. Please explain that!

Answer 2

The messiah WAS God. Jesus Christ was God manifested in the flesh.

Answer 3

According to Judaism, the Messiah is born of two human parents. But Jesus, according to Christian theology, was born of a union between a Human woman and God, rather than two HUMAN parents, as was Hercules, and Dionysis, as well as many other pagan gods.
Christians identify Messiah with Jesus and define him as God incarnated as a man, and believe he died for the sins of humanity as a blood sacrifice. This means that one has to accept the idea that one person's death can atone for another person's sins. However, this is opposed to what the Bible says in Deuteronomy 24:26, "Every man shall be put to death for his own sin," which is also expressed in Exodus 32:30-35, and Ezekiel 18. The Christian idea of the messiah also assumes that God wants, and will accept, a human sacrifice. After all, it was either Jesus-the-god who died on the cross, or Jesus-the-human. Jews believe that God cannot die, and so all that Christians are left with in the death of Jesus on the cross, is a human sacrifice. However, in Deuteronomy 12:30-31, God calls human sacrifice an abomination, and something He hates: "for every abomination to the Eternal, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." All human beings are sons or daughters, and any sacrifice to God of any human being would be something that God would hate. The Christian idea of the messiah consists of ideas that are UnBiblical.
It is the hallmark of pagan, idolatrous faiths, to confuse God with human beings, either that God becomes human, or that humans become God. In Biblical history, one sees this confusion with Pharaoh, and with Haman, as well as with Antiochus, the Assyrian King against whom the Maccabbees rebelled. Furthermore, as one example, in Hosea 11:9 God tell us, "For I am God and not a man."
The Jewish idea of God is that God is One and Indivisible. We cannot divide God up into separate parts, where each part of God is UnEqual to each of the other parts, but somehow they are one and the same. The Hebrew Scriptures describes God as an absolute One, but the Christian's New Testament describes the Christian idea of God as divisible into three parts called a trinity. In the Christian's New Testament, Jesus at one point claims to have different knowledge than other parts of the Christian Trinity. For example, Matthew 24:36 or Mark 13:32. In another verse, Jesus does not have the same power as other parts of the Christian Trinity, for example, Luke 23:34. And in Matthew 26:42, Jesus's will is not the same as the will of the Father. Indeed, Jesus often contrasted himself with the Father, for example, in John 14:28, or Luke 18:19. Furthermore, Jesus supposedly said that the punishment for blaspheming against one part of the Trinity is not the same punishment for blaspheming against another part of the Trinity. In the Hebrew Scriptures, however, God is One, as we read in Deuteronomy 6:4, as well as in Isaiah 44:6, where God tells us, "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the first," it means that God has no father. When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the last," it means that God has no literal son. And when Isaiah tells us that God said, "Besides me there is no God," it means that God does not share being God with any other god, or demi-god, or semi-god, or persons, and there is no trinity.

Answer 4

If you believe the Bible there is one God and one Messiah and that Messiah is God and he came to earth in the form of a man in order to die on the cross for the sins of mankind.

call me silly but I believe the Bible and I believe in the Father the Son and the Holly Spirit

Answer 5

You have to know what messiah means
*** it-2 pp. 385-386 Messiah ***

MESSIAH

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, ftn.

In the Hebrew Scriptures the verbal adjective form ma‧shi′ach is applied to many men. David was officially appointed to be king by being anointed with oil and so is spoken of as “anointed one” or, literally, “messiah.” (2Sa 19:21; 22:51; 23:1; Ps 18:50) Other kings, including Saul and Solomon, are termed “anointed one” or “the anointed of Jehovah.” (1Sa 2:10, 35; 12:3, 5; 24:6, 10; 2Sa 1:14, 16; 2Ch 6:42; La 4:20) The term is also applied to the high priest. (Le 4:3, 5, 16; 6:22) The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are called Jehovah’s “anointed ones.” (1Ch 16:16, 22, ftn) Persian King Cyrus is termed “anointed one,” in that he was appointed by God for a certain assignment.—Isa 45:1; see ANOINTED, ANOINTING.

In the Christian Greek Scriptures the transliterated form Mes‧si′as occurs in the Greek text at John 1:41, with the explanation, “which means, when translated, Christ.” (See also Joh 4:25.) Sometimes the word Khri‧stos′ is used alone with reference to the one who is or who claims to be the Messiah, or the Anointed One. (Mt 2:4; 22:42; Mr 13:21) In most of its appearances, though, Khri‧stos′ is accompanied by the personal name Jesus, as in the expressions “Jesus Christ” or “Christ Jesus,” to designate him as the Messiah. At times the word is used alone but specifically referring to Jesus with the understanding that Jesus is The Christ, as in the statement, “Christ died for us.”—Ro 5:8; Joh 17:3; 1Co 1:1, 2; 16:24; see CHRIST.

Messiah in the Hebrew Scriptures. At Daniel 9:25, 26 the word ma‧shi′ach applies exclusively to the coming Messiah. (See SEVENTY WEEKS.) However, many other texts of the Hebrew Scriptures also point to this coming One, even if not exclusively so. For instance, Psalm 2:2 evidently had first application at the time when Philistine kings tried to unseat anointed King David. But a second application, to the foretold Messiah, is established by Acts 4:25-27, where the text is applied to Jesus Christ. Also, many of the men called “anointed” in various ways prefigured, or pictured, Jesus Christ and the work he would do; among these were David, the high priest of Israel, and Moses (spoken of as “Christ” at Heb 11:23-26).

Answer 6

You mean like the "son" of God? In a family type arrangement? I think the Messiah is the first soul to evolve consciousness and realize Itself as being identical to God, the father, and His infinite consciousness that manifested in the very beginning of the evolution of creation. In the Bible that first soul would also be Adam, of the garden of Eden. The way it works out is that the first soul to know itself comes back to God's creation to "save" man every 1000 years as the Buddha, the Christ, the Rasool, etc., Five God-realized souls, Perfect Masters, bring the Messiah down into creation to do God's work of preserving His creation. John the Baptist was one of the five Perfect Masters during Christ and was the one that ultimately brought out the Messiah's knowledge of being God.

Hope this helps. It's not what you believe, it 's what you Know.

Answer 7

God (the Father) sent his only begotten Son Jesus(Messiah). Born without sin, Had earthly mother mary but only the spirit of God was his Father. Walked this world and never sinned. Was even tempted as we all are and never gave into sin. Took our sin ,Yet he had none of his own, and allowed himself to be sacrificed. No one killed him for he could have had ten thousand angles protect him. He took our sins and buried them with himself , yet conquered death ,not just for himself but us all, That we would not have to taste of eternal death. That we shall be with Jesus who sits at the right hand of the Father(God). To interceded for all those that except him for the Savior (Messiah). God Bless

Answer 8

Jesus is the One.
Jesus is God the Son.
Jesus became a human to die for all sin.
Jesus is coming back to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Answer 9

as we as humans understand the word messiah means the promised one to deliver the jews. in christianity messiah is jesus christ....if you use the word in a proper context than that is what you mean...in a lowercase context than it means any zealot leader of a group of followers

Answer 10

if you can find a human that is not corrupted by sin maybe.o wait a minute i forgot there isn't one. so i guess it has to be God to do it.

Answer 11

If we are to be truly redeemed from sin it stands to reason that someone unafflicted/affected by sin should be the one to redeem us.
The only one that fits the bill is God,so to bridge the gap between creator and creation the Lord took human form in Jesus to save us from eternal destruction.