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Old 03-06-2007, 01:51 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dor View Post
on the second oprah segment when Ray and Beckwith referred to "Jesus the Christ" it seemed to me a sort of pseudo intellectual gimmick. Like children using four syllable words they don't understand.
If you don't understand it, I'll explain it to you.

"Christ" isn't a family name (duh).

The word "Christ" simply means messiah (as foretold by the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures). Then this little kid came along. The name given to him was "Jesus". Turns out, according to the Bible, that he was the messiah prophesied about.

So he would be referred to as "Jesus the Christ", in the same descriptive way as we might say "Alexander the Great" or "Queen Elizabeth the 2nd".

Over time, "Jesus the Christ" became shortened, in popular usage, to "Jesus Christ". But it's still not very uncommon to hear references to "Jesus the Christ" or "Jesus the Messiah".
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