><>...Chris, why do you make a such a big deal of it?...><>
Messianic is simply an adjective I am sure you know what an adjective is. You do, don't you?
It's origin is Messiah A noun.
5547 Christos (khris-tos');
from 5548; anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus:
KJV-- Christ.
When used before the word Jew, it immediately tells something us about that particular Jewish person. It is used to distinguish a non believing Jew( one who does not believe that Jesus is the Messiah) from a believing Jew. (One who does)!
So to answer your question about your not being able to find this word in the NT, try going to your Bible and looking up the word Christ. # 5547 in the Greek. Every time you see the word Christ it describes who Jesus is. ...It is not His Last name!
To say Messianic Christian is double talk. Christian already means, by virtue of the word itself, to believe that Christ is the Messiah....Messianic is not needed in describing a Christian.!
It would be like saying, "He is a huge big man or she is a small little woman." It makes no sense at all.
Or,he is a white Caucasian man, or he is a black Negro man, or she is a yellow Chinese woman. Or even "he is a Jewish Jew.
So too it is redundant, and utterly ridiculous to say "he is a Messianic Christian."
But to say, "he is a Messianic Jew" tells us something about him.
You got it now Chris?...Or are you getting at something else?
Have a good day
Shalom...><>
Ps 122:6-9
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good. |
