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Originally Posted by jalini
Greetings, but DID the Christ say he was the Messiah/Lord?
The exchange between (I believe) Pilot and The Christ when he was being questioned.... They asked him, "are you the messiah?"
He responded.... "You say I am" Four simple words yes? But now look at them as I add emphasis:
"YOU say I am" (others may or may not)
"you SAY I am" (you say it but you do not Know it...your heart is veiled)
"you say I AM" (which is the same as the messiah...God said "I am that I am" yes?).
"you say I am" (why do you not accuse others? emphasis on the "I")
How you understand his reply varies with this understanding :) And the same would apply to Satan.
Blessings, jalini
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If one accepts as gospel (pardon the pun) Christian scripture - which is not part of my sacred literature - then Jesus does indeed proclaim himself to be the messiah in John 4:25-26 when speaking to a Samaritan woman.
I was a little confused by your question "...DID the Christ say he was the Messiah/Lord?" I was not sure if you were equating the term messiah with the word lord. The Hebrew word
משיח, mashiach, which becomes messiah when anglicized, simply means one who is anointed. Similarly, the Greek word
Χριστός Christos, which becomes Christ when anglicized, simply means one who is anointed.
B'shalom,
Peter