What is the meaning of 'Christ'?

[Djamila]

I've noticed Christians say "Jesus Christ", like a name, and "Christ Jesus", like a title. And that makes me wonder... what is the meaning of the word 'Christ'?

 

[RevOxley_501]

annointed one

 

[Djamila]

So what was Jesus' family name? "Jesus of Nazareth", I suppose, at that time?

 

[RevOxley_501]

Jesus of Nazareth or

Jesus bar Joseph (son of joseph)


Y'Shua bar Joseph

 

[Djamila]

Okay! Thanks!

 

[Halcyon]

So what was Jesus' family name? "Jesus of Nazareth", I suppose, at that time?

Yeah, like RevOxley said Jesus Christ just means Jesus the Annointed.

He would have been known as Jesus, son of Joseph. Or like you say Jesus of Nazareth. I don't think they had family names, but i don't know that much about it.

 

[RevOxley_501]

Okay! Thanks!

your very welcome

 

[SB Habakuk]

"Jesus" is a hidden name, "Christ" is a revealed name. For this reason "Jesus" is not particular to any language; rather he is always called by the name "Jesus". While as for "Christ", in Syriac it is "Messiah", in Greek it is "Christ". Certainly all the others have it according to their own language. "The Nazarene" is he who reveals what is hidden. Christ has everything in himself, whether man, or angel, or mystery, and the Father.
Phillip

 

[may]

The Hebrew form of the name Jesus means "Jehovah Is Salvation"; Christ is the equivalent of the Hebrew Ma·shi´ach (Messiah), meaning "Anointed One."

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Jesus of Nazareth or

Jesus bar Joseph (son of joseph)
Y'Shua bar Joseph

......Of the line of David

 

[RevOxley_501]

......Of the line of David

ohh yea


forgot that part

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

......Of the line of David

This brings up a complication.

Joseph was not Jesus natural father
It was prophesied that Jesus would be of the line of David.
As he was not Joseph's son, that was not the case.

It is one of the reasons why I do not believe in proof by prior prophecy.

Jesus was the son of God. the rest is irrelevant

 

[James the Persian]

This brings up a complication.

Joseph was not Jesus natural father
It was prophesied that Jesus would be of the line of David.
As he was not Joseph's son, that was not the case.

It is one of the reasons why I do not believe in proof by prior prophecy.

Jesus was the son of God. the rest is irrelevant

This argument is very weak. If I adopt a child legally speaking he will be of my line even if he doesn't share a single gene with me. In the case of the Incarnation you can't even say that Christ wasn't genetically, in His humanity, of the line of David either because firstly we aren't told how it was accomplished and secondly, His mother was also in the lineage of David. Objecting to the latter point, as many do, on the grounds that Mary was a woman is an implicit admission of the validity of my first point (as it is a legal, not biological argument) and so the whole thing comes tumbling down. There is really no need to be skeptical in the way you are, though I do agree with you that it's hardly important.

James

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Yeah, like RevOxley said Jesus Christ just means Jesus the Annointed.

He would have been known as Jesus, son of Joseph. Or like you say Jesus of Nazareth. I don't think they had family names, but i don't know that much about it.

For Hebrew tradition - A dynamic equivalent to our 'family name' would be X son of Daddy. But I'm sure that elites could give their genealogy back to the founder of their tribe from memory.

For Roman tradition - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomen