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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1822611" data-attributes="member: 2189">That claim is not settled science at all.&nbsp; This idea is still much in flux.&nbsp; It may in the end prove true but at the moment it is not.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/04/the-science-of-sexuality-how-our-genes-make-us-gay-or-straight/" target="_blank">How our genes could make us gay or straight</a>Sorry but your logic doesn&#039;t follow with linguistics and etymology as the word Christ is not a name but an adjective and title describing a position.&nbsp; The word translated Christ is the greek Khristos and means anointed.&nbsp; In the hebrew, the same word is mashiah which is the english word messiah and also means anointed.&nbsp; Both King David and the Persian Cyrus the Great in the OT is called mashiah (messiah/Christ) as they were considered anointed of god.&nbsp; David for his Kingship and Cyrus for freeing the jews from Babylon and ensuring their return to their old lands in Judah as per the texts of Ezra-Nehemiah.&nbsp; If anything, Christianity by name has taken an adjective or title and used that term to build a religious idea around.&nbsp; Savior personas were by no means unique to jewish thought as these anointed individuals were all but common around the entire Mediterranean and Middle East region and pre-dating Jesus up to 2k years before.&nbsp; During the time of Jesus in hellenized cultures, savior deities were all over the place and jewish culture was not isolated nor immune to this influence.&nbsp; Even among jews themselves there were almost countless jews over the years who claimed messiahship.&nbsp; Even today there are still occasions when someone will claim to be the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants" target="_blank">jewish messiah</a> even building a devoted following.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1822611, member: 2189"] That claim is not settled science at all. This idea is still much in flux. It may in the end prove true but at the moment it is not. [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/04/the-science-of-sexuality-how-our-genes-make-us-gay-or-straight/'][SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff0000][B]How our genes could make us gay or straight[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] Sorry but your logic doesn't follow with linguistics and etymology as the word Christ is not a name but an adjective and title describing a position. The word translated Christ is the greek Khristos and means anointed. In the hebrew, the same word is mashiah which is the english word messiah and also means anointed. Both King David and the Persian Cyrus the Great in the OT is called mashiah (messiah/Christ) as they were considered anointed of god. David for his Kingship and Cyrus for freeing the jews from Babylon and ensuring their return to their old lands in Judah as per the texts of Ezra-Nehemiah. If anything, Christianity by name has taken an adjective or title and used that term to build a religious idea around. Savior personas were by no means unique to jewish thought as these anointed individuals were all but common around the entire Mediterranean and Middle East region and pre-dating Jesus up to 2k years before. During the time of Jesus in hellenized cultures, savior deities were all over the place and jewish culture was not isolated nor immune to this influence. Even among jews themselves there were almost countless jews over the years who claimed messiahship. Even today there are still occasions when someone will claim to be the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]jewish messiah[/B][/COLOR][/URL] even building a devoted following. [/QUOTE]

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