I just looked up "Christ" in Webster's New World College Dictionaryjust for fun. I am suprised at what I found in one instance, theword's Indo-European origin. Did you know that the word "Christ" isrelated to the word "grime"?
Christ (krīst) [[ ME & OE /Crist/ < LL(Ec) /Christus/ < Gr /christos/,the anointed (in N.T., MESSIAH) < /chriein/, to anoint < IE base*/ghrēi-, to spread over, smear > GRIME ]]
I was not aware that χριστος shared an IE base with "grime."
Anyway, I think we will have to agree to disagree on this point. Anytime someone says "Christ," they do so to the exclusion of the Jewishview of Messiah. The two have very different connotations in modernEnglish, despite what they meant to native Greek speakers 2000 yearsago. Modern connotation is really what we are accustomed to dealingwith, and it is from here that we draw meaning.
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