Is the name Christianity GOD or Man Made?

[jesussaves]

It was, as is everything written in the Bible, Holy Spirit inspired. There is something really special about being called a Christian. We obtained that wonderful identity at the cross of Jesus Christ , and were first called Christians at Antioch. That name not only identifies us with Jesus Christ as being born again, blood bought believers, but it also identifies us as His Bride.

In the book of Isaiah, chapter 62, Isaiah prophecies the we will be called by a new name. That we will be called His diadem or a crown in His hand, but also His bride. The Bride was given the Grooms name.

[Yahsway]

The word Christ does not refer to Jesus/Yeshuas last name. It is a title which means "The Annointed One"

Christians means The Annointed Ones.

He is Not simply Jesus Christ He is Jesus THE Christ.

[apothanein kerdos]

I wouldn't say it's Holy Spirit inspired. Not everything in the Bible is "Holy Spirit' inspired because it's in there, but the person was HS inspired to at least record it. "Christian" is in Acts, which is a history and not a doctrinal book.

[Gerioke]

Did Jews have surnames back then?

[Khristeeanos]

I wouldn't say it's Holy Spirit inspired. Not everything in the Bible is "Holy Spirit' inspired because it's in there, but the person was HS inspired to at least record it. "Christian" is in Acts, which is a history and not a doctrinal book.

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You are very correct, SJ. Like when Job's friends were talking to him and saying all this stuff that is recorded in the Bible and later God said that they made false statements that were not of God.

[Guest Zayit]

It was an insult made for those that followed The Way.

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Exactly! Read Acts, Paul himself was breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, about the followers of "THE WAY" .

Remember, Jesus said, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE! No one comes to the Father but by me.

[Guest Zayit]

Acts 11

And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

But who called them that? G-d? I dont' think so, those of Asia, not of Israel. It is a Hellenistic name.

According to Acts 11.26 'the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch' and this would have been about AD 43, some ten years or so after the Lord Jesus left this world.

What the Bible does not tell us, however, is who invented the name 'Christian'.

It does not seem to have originated from within the church. Luke tells us that the believers were so 'called', which suggests others gave them the name. Among themselves, the Christians were known as 'disciples', 'brethren' or 'saints'. In the early days they do not seem to have used the word 'Christian' very much, if indeed at all. Apart from the reference in Acts 11, there are only two occurrences of it in the New Testament: in Acts 26.28 where the Herodian prince, Agrippa II, says, 'Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian'; and in 1 Peter 4.16 where mention is made of it as the term of accusation on the lips of the church's persecutors, 'If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed'. There is no example of it being used by Christians and this suggests it was not chosen by them.

It is not likely either that the Jews coined the word. They believed that those belonging to 'this sect' were heretics of the worst kind and they tended to use words of reproach when referring to them. They called them 'Galileans' or 'Nazarenes'. To have linked the sacred name of 'Christ' with the followers of Jesus would have looked far too much like a concession that Jesus was the Christ, the promised Messiah, and that His disciples were God's true and faithful people. These were the things the Jews passionately and vehemently denied. They would therefore be the very last to confer such a title upon believers in Jesus.

More could be said in support of the view that the Gentiles gave them this name. Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria, was where the first church was planted among the Gentiles. Whereas in the past the Jews had witnessed the emergence of churches and had devised their own nicknames, the Gentiles were the ones who now needed a name for them and they might well have come up with a name like 'Christian'. 'The people of Antioch were notorious for inventing names of derision, and for turning their wit into the channels of ridicule' Certainly in its form the name is similar to others of known heathen origin, e.g., Pompeians. The evidence therefore tends to favour the opinion that the name originated from the Gentile community in Antioch.

http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/article..._detail.php?557

[Guest Zayit]

Did Jews have surnames back then?

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Yes, technically Jesus name would have been Yeshua ben Yosef ( ben means son so , Jesus son of Joseph). But we know he was the son of G-d so what would that make his name?

[ayin jade]

I cant help but wonder where this is going.