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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (17168)	4/20/2004 11:05:17 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

20. "Messiah" means more than "anointed one"—it implies Jesus is the Son of God in some unique way. Ankerberg: Did the word "Messiah" as used by the Jesus people have no reference to Jesus being the Son of God? Did it only mean "the anointed one"? Evans: No. Messiah meant not only "anointed one," but in the Jewish context, in a context of Old Testament Scripture, it would imply that one is God’s Son. What exactly that mean, well, that has to be defined. But Messiah, for Jesus and His following, meant that He’s the Son of God. It had to mean that. Ankerberg: Stick with the Messiah aspect first of all. What does Messiah mean for our American people out here? Evans: Oh brother. It’s hard to say what Messiah means. But for American people it usually means Savior, somebody who has the answers to all the questions, to all the ills of life; somebody who comes and cures everything. I think that’s what it means to Americans today. And that’s not too far from the truth, for what it meant for the Jewish people in the first century, a people beleaguered and oppressed by heavy taxation, by the heavy hand of Rome; people that were appalled by what they perceived as corruption within the Temple establishment; people who were looking for the land of Israel to be redeemed and purified and for the golden era finally to come back. The Messiah is supposed to bring that about.