Edit: grammar

  • CrazyEddie041@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My favorite (probably inaccurate) point about the name “Jesus Christ”: the name “Christ” means “anointed one”, as you said. People were generally anointed by having oil poured on their head. “Jesus” is just contemporary form of the name “Joshua”. So in another life, “Jesus Christ” could literally be translated as “Oily Josh”.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like if Jesus were alive now the name oily josh would be like that horrible childhood nickname that he hates