Christ is the English English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into South-East Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, and of term for the Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of Χριστός (Khristós) meaning "the anointed one To anoint is to pour or smear with perfumed oil, milk, water, melted butter or other substances, a process employed ritually by many religions. People and things are anointed to symbolize the introduction of a sacramental or divine influence, a holy emanation, spirit, power or god. It can also be seen as a spiritual mode of ridding persons and".[1] It is a translation of the Hebrew Extinct as a regularly spoken language by the 4th century CE, but survived as a liturgical and literary language; revived in the 1880s מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ), usually transliterated Transliteration is the practice of converting a text from one writing system into another in a systematic way. An example of transliteration is typing an e-mail using a qwerty keyboard and sending it in a non-qwerty script into English English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into South-East Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, and of as Messiah The word originally came from Hebrew messiaḥ, “anointed”. In Judaism, the expected king of the Davidic line who would deliver Israel from foreign bondage and restore the glories of its golden age. The Greek New Testament’s translation of the term, Christos, became the accepted Christian designation and title of Jesus of Nazareth,.

The word is often misunderstood to be the surname A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning of "surname" first appeared in 1375. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". It is also commonly known as a "last name", though in Hungary and of Jesus Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ or simply Jesus, is the central figure of Christianity, which views him as the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God (in the concept of the Trinity, he is God [as] the Son), who came to provide humankind with salvation and reconciliation with God by his due to the numerous mentions of Jesus Christ in the Christian Bible The Bible refers to collections of sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity. There is no single version: both the individual books and their order vary. The Hebrew Bible contains 39 books, while Christian Bibles range from the 66 books of the Protestant canon to 81 books in the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible. The oldest surviving Christian Bibles. The word is in fact used as a title A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone's name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may even be inserted between a first and last name . Some titles are hereditary, hence its common reciprocal use Christ Jesus, meaning "Jesus The Anointed One", or "Jesus The Messiah". Followers of Jesus became known as Christians A Christian (pronounced /ˈkrɪstʃən/ ) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who Christians believe is the Messiah (the Christ in Greek-derived terminology) prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, and the son of God. Most Christians believe in the doctrine of because they believed that Jesus was the Christ, or Messiah, prophesied A prophecy is the message that has been communicated to a prophet which the prophet then communicates to others. Such messages typically involve divine inspiration, interpretation, or revelation of events to come about in the Tanakh The Tanakh is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is also known as the Masoretic Text or the Miqra. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah ("Teaching", also known as the Five Books of Moses), (which Christians term the Old Testament The Old Testament is the collection of books that forms the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. The contents of the Old Testament canon vary from church to church, with the Orthodox communion having 51 books: the shared books are those of the shortest canon, that of the major Protestant communions, with 39 books). The majority of Jews The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation. Converts to Judaism, whose status as Jews within the Jewish ethnos reject this claim and are still waiting for Christ to come (see Jewish Messiah Messiah (Hebrew: משיח‎; mashiah, moshiah, mashiach, or moshiach, is a term used in the Hebrew Bible to describe priests and kings, who were traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil as described in Exodus 30:22-25. For example, Cyrus the Great, the king of Persia, though not a Hebrew, is referred to as "God's anointed" (). Most Christians now wait for the Second Coming The Greek New Testament uses the Greek term parousia meaning "arrival", "coming", or "presence" 24 times, 17 of them concerning Christ. The Greek word is also common in the Septuagint. In classical Greek texts a substantial number of uses concern important personages however that is partly because extant Greek of Christ when they believe he will fulfill the rest of the Messianic prophecy Messiah literally means "anointed (one)".

The area of Christian theology Theology is the study of a god or, more generally, the study of religious faith, practice, and experience, or of spirituality focusing on the identity, life, teachings and works of Jesus, is known as Christology Christology is the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ. Primary considerations include the relationship of Jesus' nature and person with the nature and person of God. As such, Christology is generally less concerned with the details of Jesus' life (what he did) or.

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Etymology

Further information: Chrism Chrism , also called "Myrrh" (Myron), Holy anointing oil, or "Consecrated Oil," is a consecrated oil used in the Roman Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in Old-Catholic churches, as well as Anglican and Lutheran churches in the administration of certain sacraments and Christian (word) A Christian (pronounced /ˈkrɪstjən/ ) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who Christians believe is the Messiah (the Christ in Greek-derived terminology) prophesied in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the Son of God

The spelling Christ (Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of Genitive In grammar, the genitive case is the case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships other than possession; certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case; and it may have adverbial uses (see Adverbial genitive). Modern English does: τοῦ Χριστοῦ, toú Christoú,; Nominative The nominative case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb or the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments. (Generally, it is a noun that is doing something.): ὁ Χριστὸς, ho Christós) in English English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into South-East Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, and of was standardized Standardization or standardisation is the process of developing and agreeing upon technical standards. A standard is a document that establishes uniform engineering or technical specifications, criteria, methods, processes, or practices. Some standards are mandatory while others are voluntary. Voluntary standards are available if one chooses to in the 18th century A century is one hundred consecutive years. It is also a Roman term. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages (e.g. "the seventh century AD/CE"), when, in the spirit of the Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment is the era in Western philosophy and intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority, the spelling of certain words was changed to fit their Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of or Latin Latin or sometimes Roman is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Although often considered a dead language, in view of the fact that it has no native, fluent speakers, Latin continues to be taught in schools and has been, and currently is, used in the process of new word production in modern languages from many origins. Prior to this, in Old Old English or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Middle English is the name given by historical linguists to the diverse forms of the English language in use between the late 11th century and about 1470, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William Caxton in the late 1470s, the word was usually spelled Crist the i being pronounced either as /iː/, preserved in the names of churches such as St Katherine Cree St Katharine Cree is a Church of England church in the Aldgate ward of the City of London, located on Leadenhall Street near Leadenhall Market, or as a short /ɪ/, preserved in the modern pronunciation of Christmas Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday observed mostly on December 25 to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity. The date is not known to be the actual birth date of Jesus, and may have initially been chosen to correspond with either the day exactly nine months after some early Christians believed Jesus had been). The spelling "Christ" is attested from the 14th century.[2]

The term Christ (or similar) appears in English and most European Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus region (Specification of borders) and the Black Sea to the southeast. Europe is bordered by the languages Language is a term most commonly used to refer to so called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. By extension the term also refers to the type of human thought process which creates and uses language. Essential to both meanings is the systematic creation, maintenance and use of systems of, owing to the Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of usage of Christós (transcribed in Latin as Christus) in the New Testament The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christian Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament. Unlike the Old Testament, the contents of the New Testament deal explicitly with Christianity, although both the Old and New Testament are regarded, together, as Sacred Scripture. The New Testament as a description Description is one of four rhetorical modes , along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions for Jesus Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ or simply Jesus, is the central figure of Christianity, which views him as the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God (in the concept of the Trinity, he is God [as] the Son), who came to provide humankind with salvation and reconciliation with God by his. In the Septuagint The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", referred to in critical works by the abbreviation , is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC in Alexandria. It was begun by the third century BC and completed before 132 BC version of the Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible is a term referring to the books of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh) as originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew, with some Biblical Aramaic. It is also called the Hebrew Scriptures. The term closely corresponds to contents of the Jewish Tanakh and the Protestant Old Testament (see also Judeo-Christian) and does not include the, it was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew Extinct as a regularly spoken language by the 4th century CE, but survived as a liturgical and literary language; revived in the 1880s mashiach (messiah), meaning "anointed."[3]

Khristós in classical Greek usage Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning the Archaic , Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD) periods of ancient Greece and the ancient world. It is predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek. Its Hellenistic phase is known as Koine (& could mean covered in oil, and is thus a literal translation of messiah The word originally came from Hebrew messiaḥ, “anointed”. In Judaism, the expected king of the Davidic line who would deliver Israel from foreign bondage and restore the glories of its golden age. The Greek New Testament’s translation of the term, Christos, became the accepted Christian designation and title of Jesus of Nazareth,.

Orthodox Christian views

See also: Jesus Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ or simply Jesus, is the central figure of Christianity, which views him as the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God (in the concept of the Trinity, he is God [as] the Son), who came to provide humankind with salvation and reconciliation with God by his and New Testament view on Jesus' life The four canonical gospels of the New Testament are the primary sources of information for the doctrinal Christian narrative of Jesus' life. There is not a single New Testament "view" of Jesus' life, the four gospels tell different but dependent stories. There is wide consensus among contemporary critical scholars that Mark is the

This section contains views that have generally been agreed upon among Christians for two millennia. The New Testament The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christian Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament. Unlike the Old Testament, the contents of the New Testament deal explicitly with Christianity, although both the Old and New Testament are regarded, together, as Sacred Scripture. The New Testament records that the Messiah, long awaited, had come and describes this savior as The Christ. 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."[Matt 16:16]

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Teachings about Jesus and testimonie's about what he accomplished during his three-year public ministry are found throughout the New Testament. Core biblical teachings about the person of Jesus Christ may be summarized that Jesus Christ was and forever is fully God (divine) and fully human in one sinless person at the same time.[4] Scripture asserts that Jesus was conceived, by a miraculous work of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of his virgin mother Mary without a human father.[5]

The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews says:

Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.

Josephus[6]

Various texts titled "Apostles' Creed", dating from the third century A.D., and still in current use among Christians, describe Jesus as

Heterodox Christian views

This section contains views and doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position.

Christian Science

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."[7]

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.[8]

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. Some gnostic texts say that in order to be called worthy of the title 'Christian,' one must also be anointed with Holy oil and that the water baptism alone is incomplete. One of those is the gnostic Gospel of Philip states several such instances, one being:

The 'Chrism' is superior to baptism, for it is from the word 'Chrism' that we have been called 'Christians,' certainly not because of the word 'baptism.' And it is because of the 'Chrism' that the 'Christ' has his name. For the Father anointed the Son, the Son anointed the apostles, and the apostles anointed us. He who has been anointed possesses everything. He possesses the Resurrection, the Light, the Cross, the Holy Spirit. The Father gave him this in the bridal chamber, he merely accepted the gift. The Father was in the Son and the Son in the Father. This is the Kingdom of Heaven.[9]

Other Gnostic texts with Jesus Christ include the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary.

Neo-Theosophy

In Neo-Theosophy, C.W. Leadbeater promulgated a Nestorian/Gnostic Christology that was taught by Alice A. Bailey, is taught by Benjamin Creme, and is accepted today by most Theosophists. This theology asserts that a powerful being from the higher spiritual planes known as the Maitreya overshadowed the being Theosophists know as the Master Jesus during the ministry of Jesus, such that there were two beings (two souls) in one body—Maitreya was the Christ and the Master Jesus was Jesus; the combination of the two beings functioned as Jesus Christ.[10][11] Those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions derived from Theosophy, believe in the existence of the Maitreya; however, they believe that although he encouraged the mission of Jesus, he did not actually overshadow Jesus.[12]

Western Wisdom Teachings

In the WWT, the Solar System is the Creation[13] of the collective Great Being God - Elohim, its threefold Architect and sustainer; the celestial bodies of this portion of Space, permeated by different planes of existence having varying density and vibration, are home to various life waves of virgin spirits, differentiated within God Himself, and in different evolutionary stages of consciousness. The Sun, depicted above, is seen as the seat of the Christ Spirit, The Son, Who has become partially confined to the Earth, as its Regent, through the Great Sacrifice of Christ-Jesus on Calvary.
See also: Second Coming and Esoteric Christianity

In the Rosicrucian writings of Max Heindel, also known as Western Wisdom Teachings, there is a distinction to be made between Jesus and the Christ.[14] Jesus is considered a high Initiate of the human life wave (the cycle of rebirth) and of a singularly pure type of mind, vastly superior to the great majority of the present humanity. Among the esoteric insights into the composite nature of Christ-Jesus and the uplifting mission of the Christ, the Esoteric Christian philosophy of the Rosicrucians teaches that:

On Golgotha, the physical body of the Christ[15] was destroyed amid certain phenomena recorded in the Bible, and the Christ Spirit drew into the earth. Up to that time the earth had been worked upon from without. As the group spirits guide animals from without, so the earth had been guided in its orbit, and mankind had been led on the path of evolution entirely by Jehovah, but from that time the Christ became our indwelling Earth-Spirit. He now guides our planet in its orbit, and is endeavoring to replace the regime of war inaugurated by Jehovah, on the one hand, and the Martial Lucifer Spirits, on the other, by a regime of altruism, a reign of Universal Friendship. We hear much about Universal Brotherhood, but it is not necessary to form societies to proclaim that we are brothers; everyone knows that, there is no need of calling attention to that fact. Brothers and sisters are not always harmonious, however, they must be harmonious if they are to be friends, and therefore Christ instituted a much higher ideal when He called His disciples friends:— "If ye love one another, if ye keep my commandments, then ye are my friends."[16]

From the viewpoint of the Rosicrucian cosmology, our home Solar system is God's habitation;[17] the Sun is the indwelling "bright morning-star"[18] of the Christ Spirit—the "Sun of righteousness," the "Light of the World," the Solar Logos[19] —Who founded the catholic, meaning 'universal', lofty Christian religion, the only religion that is looking for the “One Who is to come again”; whereas the Moon(s) is(are) the working platform of the lunar God Jehovah, the builder of concrete bodies or forms (and, thus, the giver of children) and the founder of all separative race-religions, that still look for the “One Who is to come”; and Mars (not Venus), the red planet, is the abode of the fallen selfish Lucifer spirits. Further, it is described that the great Sun-spirit Christ became the Regent of our planet at the moment He secured His admission into the Earth[20] through the Cleansing Blood ("... the soul of all flesh is in the blood...")[Lev. 17:11,14] that flowed at the crucifixion of Christ-Jesus.[21]

Χ

See also: Christogram

The use of "Χ," derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ (most commonly in the abbreviation "Χmas") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term. Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas. Christians are sometimes referred to- in a semi-satirical manner- as "Xians", with the 'X' replacing 'Christ.[22]

Slang usage

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The interjection "christ!" is sometimes used as a sign of surprise or anger, without a direct religious reference—that is, as an exclamation. Some Christians think this usage violates the commandment against taking the Lord's name in vain, although the severity of the transgression varies among different groups of believers.

The prohibition against use as an interject was generally taken more seriously in the past, to the point where it was not only considered socially improper, but a sin against God.

See also

References

  1. ^ Etymology Online: Christ
  2. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "Christ"
  3. ^ Etymology Online: messiah
  4. ^ Grudem, Wayne A. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. Zondervan, 1994. ISBN 0310286700
  5. ^ Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:35, Luke 3:23
  6. ^ Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18, Chapter 3, Section 3
  7. ^ Science and Health 334
  8. ^ The Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science)
  9. ^ Lee, A. D. (2000). Pagans and Christians in late antiquity. Routledge. p. 45. ISBN 9780415138925.
  10. ^ Leadbeater, C.W. The Masters and the Path Adyar, Madras, India: 1925--Theosophical Publishing House Page 278
  11. ^ Creme, Benjamin Maitreya's Mission—Volume III Amsterdam:1997 Share International Foundtion Page 64
  12. ^ Prophet, Mark Studies of the Human Aura Colorado Springs, Colorado: 1975 - Summit University Press (Claimed to have been dictated from the ascended master Kuthumi") Page 17
  13. ^ Note: see also Formation and evolution of the Solar System
  14. ^ Max Heindel, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (Part III, Chapter XV: Christ and His Mission), November 1909, ISBN 0-911274-34-0
  15. ^ Brief note on Christology and the historical Jesus: according to the Rosicrucian Philosophy, the physical body of the Christ was the physical body of Jesus who, having been under preparation among the Essene brotherhood (the third Jewish sect of that period; cf. Josephus) as a τεκτων (tekton) or disciple of high degree, voluntarly submitted it to the Christ Spirit, at the moment of the Baptism, when the heavens open with the descent of the Spirit and a voice from Heaven speaks: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." [Mt 3:17] [Mk 1:11] [Lk 3:21-22], for His use on the physical world until the climax of His Mission on Golgotha.
  16. ^ Heindel, Max. How Shall We Know Christ At His Coming?. May 1913 (stenographic report of a lecture, Los Angeles). ISBN 0-911274-64-2
  17. ^ Note: cf. Psalm 19:1-6
  18. ^ Note: cf. Revelation 22:16
  19. ^ Note: cf. Matthew 17:2 Revelation 1:16
  20. ^ Note: cf. Ephesians 4:9-10
  21. ^ The Rosicrucian Fellowship. Rosicrucian Bible MysteriesPDF. Compilation, 2001
  22. ^ "X". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.

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church money Then most people have been hating on Obama etc and using Gods name so of course people are going to feel forced away But I m sure God lives with in them Like he does in ME

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That brings me to my second point: there is no following . Christ. without being part of the church. That is like speaking of being born absent being part of the human race. I am sure she feels different (she is not alone) than other ...

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How does an infant accept Christ when being baptized in the catholic church?
Q. Do catholics really believe the infant is aware of what is going on and is able to accept Christ as Lord and Savior?
Asked by mike3 - Wed Apr 22 16:50:46 2009 - - 21 Answers - 0 Comments

A. How did an infant like Jesus accept Judaism when he was circumcized as a baby? St. Paul wrote that baptism has replaced circumcision (Col 2:11-12), and in Judaism circumcision was performed primarily on infants. The Catholic Church teaches, "Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called." Infant baptism is not a new thing. There are non-biblical documented sources starting in the second century telling of infant Baptism. There are even several passages in the Bible where whole households were baptized. This would include everyone who lived… [cont.]
Answered by imacatholic2 - Sat Apr 25 01:21:31 2009

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