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Christ or Messiah?

Those disciples were Greek converted by Paul. This conversion was decades after the crucifixion. Paul never met Jesus. The word Christ is Greek and was adopted by the Greek writers into their Gospels. Why is it that the Jewish Messiah is always referred to as Jesus, the Christ and never Jesus the Messiah? Continue reading

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Executed for Insurrection Part 1

History Written by the Winners It has been said: “There are two sides to every story.” In the story I refer to, there is the way it actually happened and there is another story that may have been written in … Continue reading

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How Many Gods?

Those that defend the doctrine of the Trinity use verses to prove that since there is “only one God”, then Jesus must in fact be capital “g”: God. (Just for reference sake, when I say “person” in this article I am not referring to a human being but a person in the grammatical sense of the word or as an entity, especially since God is a spirit, or whatever he is, and not human.)

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me no God… Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not [any]. (Isa 44:6-8)

I [am] the LORD, and none else, no God beside me… (Isa 45:5)

…and no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; none beside me. …Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and none else. (Isa 45:21-22)

…and thou shalt know no god but me: for no saviour beside me. (Hos 13:4)

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The Name Jesus Christ

In Jesus’s case it’s not clear since in one gospel he was born in Bethlehem and in another it seems he was born in Nazareth, or at least that’s where people assumed he was born since he is known, even until today as “Jesus of Nazareth”. So what should he be called?

At any rate, the Greek word that Christ comes from: Christos, does not mean messiah, contrary to popular belief and teaching. But it means the “anointed one” — or something close to that.

The word in Hebrew for messiah is “mashiach”. For the Jews, from whom came the Messianic prophesies, the idea of “mashiach” is not a savior, but a great human leader like King David. Now when I say human, that means the Messiah will be a human being, not a god come in the flesh, born of a virgin.

The word in Hebrew for messiah is “mashiach”:

“The Jewish idea of mashiach is a great human leader like King David, not a savior” (httpss://www.jewfaq.org/mashiach)

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