Black Friday at church!

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

i am not attacking your belief. i am merely pointing out that as in the example below, how could there be SO many different thughts even on one word alone and you consider yourself correct and others incorrect?

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This article is about the Christian theological role. For other uses, see Christ (disambiguation).

Icon of Christ in a Greek Orthodox churchChrist is the English term for the Greek Χριστός (Khristós) meaning "the anointed".[1] In the 3rd- to 1st-centuries BCE, the Tanakh (what Christians would in later centuries come to call the Old Testament) was translated into a Greek version called the Septuagint, in which Khristós was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ,) (Messiah), meaning "[one who is] anointed."[2] Many modern Christians[who?] explicitly describe Christ as both fully human and fully God, while the Jewish tradition understands the Messiah as a human being without any overtone of deity or divinity.[3]

Followers of Jesus became known as Christians because they believed that Jesus is the Messiah, or Christ. Jews reject this claim and are still waiting for the messiah to come (see Jewish Messiah).

The area of Christian theology focusing on the nature of Jesus as the Christ, particularly with how the divine and human are related in his person, is known as Christology.

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1 Etymology
2 Christian views
2.1 In the New Testament
2.2 Christian Science
3 Esoteric Christian views
3.1 Rosicrucian
3.2 Gnostic
3.3 Creation Spirituality
4 Islamic view
5 Hindu View
6 Χ
7 Slang usage
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links

[edit] Etymology
Further information: Chrism and Christian (word)
The spelling Christ in English was standardized in the 17th century, when, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, spellings of certain words were changed to fit their Greek or Latin origins. Prior to this, in Old and Middle English, the word was usually spelled Crist, the i being pronounced either as /iː/ (see Help:pronunciation), preserved in the names of churches such as St Katherine Cree, or as a short /ɪ/, preserved in the modern pronunciation of Christmas). The spelling "Christ" is attested from the 14th century.[4]

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The term Christ (or similar) appears in English and most European languages, owing to the Greek usage of Khristós (transcribed in Latin as Christus) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus. In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible, it was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew mashiach (messiah), meaning "[one who is] anointed". [2]

Jesus Christ as believed by his followers is the living son of God and will return to judge mankind one day.

Khristós in classical Greek usage could mean covered in oil, and is thus a literal translation of messiah. The Greek term is thought to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root of *ghrei- ("to rub"), which in Germanic languages, such as English, mutated into gris- and grim-. Hence the English words grisly, grim, grime, and grease, are thought to be cognate with Christ, though these terms came to have a negative connotation, where the Greek word had a positive connotation. In French the Greek term mutated first to creŝme and then to crème, due to the loss of certain 's' usages in French, which was loaned into English as cream. Indian ghee, from Sanskrit ghṛtə घृत ("sprinkled") is another obvious cognate, and indeed, has a sacred role in Vedic and modern Hindu libation and anointment rituals.

[edit] Christian views
Some may refer to "Jesus" when emphasizing his human nature in an event in the New Testament, and refer to "Christ" in discussing his divine nature.[who?]

After 1215 it was official doctrine that the words and gestures of the priest "transubstantiated" or transformed the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood, thought they retained the outward appearance of bread and wine. [5]

[edit] In the New Testament
See also: Jesus and New Testament view on Jesus' life
In the New Testament it says that the Messiah, long awaited, had come and describes this savior as the Christ (Greek Genitive: τοῦ Χριστοῦ, toú Christoú,; Nominative: ὁ Χριστὸς, ho Christós). The apostle Peter, in what has become a famous proclamation of faith among Christians since the first century, said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16).

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In the theology of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, the religion's founder, wrote in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, that:

"The invisible Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus appeared as a bodily existence. This dual personality of the unseen and the seen, the spiritual and material, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest in flesh, continued until the Master's ascension, when the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes."[6]

Eddy wrote that while Jesus, as a material man, was not the exact ontological or quantitative equivalent to God, he thoroughly embodied the spiritual sonship of God's nature. In Christian Science, the Christ, or divine manifestation of God, continues forever to enlighten humanity and to destroy sickness, sin, and death.

[edit] Esoteric Christian views
See also Second Coming and Esoteric Christianity

[edit] Rosicrucian
For the Rosicrucians there is a distinction to be made between Jesus and the Christ.[7] Jesus is considered a high Initiate of the human life wave (which evolves under the cycle of rebirth) and of a singularly pure type of mind, vastly superior to the great majority of the present humanity.

They believe he was educated during his youth among the Essenes and thus prepared himself for the greatest honor ever bestowed upon a human being: to deliver his pure, passionless, highly evolved physical body and vital body (already attuned to the high vibrations of the 'Life Spirit'), in the moment of the Baptism, to the Christ being for his ministry in the physical world. At the cruxifixion the Christ was released from the bodies of Jesus and entered into the Earth.[8] Christ is described as the highest spiritual being of the life wave called Archangels, having completed his union ("the Son") with the second aspect of God: Wisdom (Christ the Logos); and this great Archangel still is, according to these esoteric Christian teachings, the indwelling Spirit of the Earth: the Regent of the Earth.[9]

[edit] Gnostic
See also: Sophia (wisdom) and New Thought
The gnostics generally believed not in a Jesus who was a divine person with a human form, but in a spiritual christ who dwelt in Jesus. Through the spiritual path of gnosticism, followers of these schools believed that they could experience the same knowledge, or gnosis. Gnosticism, a non-hierarchical interpretation of the Christian message, was declared heresy by the formal, hierarchical Christian church at the first Ecumenical Council, which occurred at Nicaea in 325 A.D., although condemnation of such beliefs were held by orthodox church leaders for some time.

Gnostic texts with Jesus Christ include the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and many more which have been discovered throughout the centuries.

[edit] Creation Spirituality
In his book The Coming of the Cosmic Christ Matthew Fox wrote of "the Cosmic Christ."

[edit] Islamic view
Main article: Islamic view of Jesus
Muslims believe Jesus (Isa or عيسى) to be the Messiah (Massih) and a prophet. Although they believe in the Virgin Birth, they do not consider Jesus to be "the son of God". Jesus was neither crucified nor dead, but was raised to Heaven by God while still living.

Islamic traditions narrate that he will return to earth near the day of judgement to restore justice and defeat al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl (lit. "the false messiah", also known as the Antichrist) and the enemies of Islam.[10]

[edit] Hindu View
In Hinduism, God is often described by both personifications (deities), which are manifestations of particular aspects of God's power, and incarnations (avatars) of God in mortal form, as in case of Shiva or Vishnu. In these religions "the christ" is akin to these personifications. A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who coined the phrase 'Krsna Consciousness', held Jesus' teachings as non-different from the Hindu, Vedic scriptures, and others such as Paramahansa Yogananda often wrote about a "Christ Consciousness" interchangeably with "Krsna Consciousness
~peace

Merry Christmas, heartforwisdom.

Go have fun at the mall....

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

The early Church established traditions which, with Scripture, were equally binding on the faithful(2TH 2:15). When Christ charged Peter with the leadership of the Church, he was given authority to establish Her rites and traditions. However, reason should inform us that, if the only source of truth were in the Bible, then for almost four hundred years there was no authority on the faith, as the Bible had not yet been compiled. Remember, too, that most people in ancient days could not read and all things were taught orally by the Church.
Bottom line, don't sweat the small stuff. The fact of Jesus birth is truly cause to celebrate and the message of Christmas is "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men of good will."
Ignorance of Christianity and its foundations accounts for a great deal of disillusionment about the faith. If we seek the truth with love for God we will surely find it.

An almost troll-like response, don't you think?

Trying to fan the flames of controversy? Lonely?

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

since they are both associated with "shopping" and "spending money".
Don't many people do their "Christmas" shopping on Black Friday??

Do you really think different translations are going to effect the impact of Christianity on the world? Are you a child?

So it wasn't a manger?? Oh my God.... let's do away with this Christianity stuff!

You need to get back to your root and find out where this hostility towards other humans, not religion, is coming from.

Till then, you'll be no use to anyone.

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

We won't miss you.

I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...

you must be. You are probably just to cheap and lazy to buy Christmas gifts. I'm sure "everyone will find out" someday that they should have listened to you instead of the Bible and the word of God. You sound soooo intelligent.