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NASB | 1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes [with a deep, abiding trust in the fact] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) is born of God [that is, reborn from above--spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], and everyone who loves the Father also loves the child born of Him. |
Bible Question: Why is Jesus referred to as Jesus Christ instead of Jesus the Messiah? |
Bible Answer: The following is taken from Easton's Bible Dictionary: "Christ Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered “Messiah” (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was anointed or consecrated to his great redemptive work as Prophet, Priest, and King of his people. He is Jesus the Christ (Act_17:3; Act_18:5; Mat_22:42), the Anointed One. He is thus spoken of by Isaiah (Isa_61:1), and by Daniel (Dan_9:24-26), who styles him “Messiah the Prince.” The Messiah is the same person as “the seed of the woman” (Gen_3:15), “the seed of Abraham” (Gen_22:18), the “Prophet like unto Moses” (Deu_18:15), “the priest after the order of Melchizedek” (Psa_110:4), “the rod out of the stem of Jesse” (Isa_11:1, Isa_11:10), the “Immanuel,” the virgin's son (Isa_7:14), “the branch of Jehovah” (Isa_4:2), and “the messenger of the covenant” (Mal_3:1). This is he “of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write.” The Old Testament Scripture is full of prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ is Jesus the Great Deliverer, the Anointed One, the Saviour of men. This name denotes that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and accredited as the Saviour of men (Heb_5:4; Isa_11:2-4; Isa_49:6; Joh_5:37; Act_2:22). To believe that “Jesus is the Christ” is to believe that he is the Anointed, the Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent of God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is to believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian (1Co_12:3; 1Jo_5:1)." Welcome to the forum. WOS |
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