Messiah in Christianity in the context of "Anointed"

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⭐ Core Definition: Messiah in Christianity

Christ, used by Christians as both a name and a title, unambiguously refers to Jesus. As a title it is used both in the reciprocal form "Christ Jesus", meaning "the Messiah Jesus" (or "Jesus the Khristós"; lit. "Jesus the Anointed"), and independently as "the Christ". The earliest texts of the New Testament, the Pauline epistles, often refer to Jesus as "Christ Jesus", or simply "Christ".

The concept of the Christ in Christianity originated from the concept of the messiah in Judaism. Christians believe that Jesus is the messiah foretold in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Although the conceptions of the messiah in each religion are similar, for the most part they are distinct from one another due to the split of early Christianity and Judaism in the 1st century.

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Messiah in Christianity in the context of Christianity and Judaism

Christianity and Judaism are the largest and twelfth-largest religions in the world, with approximately 2.5 billion and 15 million adherents, respectively. Both are monotheistic Abrahamic religions that originated in the Middle East.

Christianity began as a movement within Second Temple Judaism, and the two religions gradually diverged over the first few centuries of the Christian era. Today, both religions have denominational differences, but the main distinction is that Christianity recognizes Jesus as the Messiah foretold in the Hebrew Bible, whereas Judaism maintains that the Messiah has not yet arrived and that the era of prophecy concluded early in the Second Temple period.

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