rosends
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We refer to those who were anointed as "king" or "priest" or even mashu'ach (one who has been anointed). Why would we use Greek?
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The Anointed
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The Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ), usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach. The Hebrew word translated "anointed" is the verb form of the noun "Messiah."
So, who do you believe is your Messiah? Who was it, who was taken up by your Lord and anointed as your Messiah? Enoch, Moses, or Elijah, or perhaps some other?
rosends
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Start with Aharon the high priest. Then you can move forward in time -- there were a bunch. Kings and priests (and, I believe some prophets) were anointed. Each then, was a mashiach. You ask who IS my messiah but that's impossible to answer. I can only tell you who were the messiahs of the Jewish people.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Not me.
The Messiah had to be God because only God saves.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
It is not the job of the messiah to save you from your sins.
We can't save ourselves from our sins. Only God is a Savior. Isaiah 43:11
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
If God isn't a trinity, can we be saved? The answer is no. | carm.org
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Yes, God forgives us from our sins. First we are to go to those we harmed and make things right with them. Then we go to God. We repent, turning away from our sin and turning back to God. He casts our sins into the sea and remembers them no more.
The messiah never even enters into the picture.
Without becoming the Messiah God could not forgive us of sin because only God could pay the infinite price of sin, eternal separation from God, so that we could be forgiven.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Are you kidding? God can do whatever God darn well pleases. God does not need the messiah in order to forgive us our sins. God is full of justice and mercy, and that is all that is needed for the whole sin thing.
You are basically starting with NT doctrine, and then going backwards and attempting to force fit it into the Tenakh. It just is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Can a righteous just judge just let a criminal go and say I forgive you? The Messiah was God taking our place on the cross, not just to forgive us of our sins but also so that we could come before God. Eternal separation from God exists because God is merciful but God is also just.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Yes. There are a times a righteous just judge looks at a criminal that has been found guity, sentences him, and then declares the sentence suspended or or limits it to time served.
A suspended sentence is only temporarily suspended. It doesn't take away from a just judge always has to give a penalty for someone committing a crime.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Then I'm just using the wrong word. Maybe its commuted or dismissed or whatever. A judge can choose not to enforce the penalty given. My understanding of a suspended sentences is that the criminal serves a period of probation after which the penalty is forgiven.