Bible Question: when we spell christmas with an x, (xmas)does that take christ out of christmas? |
Bible Answer: 'Is using the term ‘Xmas’ leaving Christ out of Christmas? 'I have no idea who started using the abbreviation “Xmas” or the reason for it, but I suspect it was simply to abbreviate the term by using the English letter ‘X,’ which represents the Greek letter chi, the first letter of Christos (Cristo) for Christ. If you will note, the first Greek letter of christos, the chi, looks very much like our English letter X. Christos means “anointed one” and comes from the verb chrio (criw), “I anoint.”' ____________________ www.bible.org |
Up | View Branch | ID# 165307 | ||
Questions and/or Subjects for Bible general Archive 3 | Author | ||
|
Rylaha | ||
|
Nubeaux | ||
|
Nubeaux | ||
|
haasdijk | ||
|
kalos | ||
|
forgiven1 | ||
|
catcabc | ||
|
Roslyn | ||
|
Roslyn | ||
|
jrose3 | ||
|
Shelly | ||
|
prayon | ||
|
kalos |