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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot 
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.
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Just for the record, Jews don't believe that JC was the son of god because their interpretation of the OT doesn't prophesy the arrival of any deity. The problem lies in how the word "messiah" is interpreted. Back then "messiah" simply meant "anointed one", of which there were many. There is also a school of thought amongst bible scholars which argues that it was Paul who made up all the stuff about JC being a divinity decades after JC's death. Paul has been called the PT Barnum of his age. IIRC, it was the Council of Nicea c. 325 C.E, which elevated JC from man-prophet to Son of God.
Who's right? Who's wrong?
We'll never know.