Life Before Death

Jan 10, 2010

The Christ to be followed

As you know, the word of Christ comes from Greek word “Khristós” as translation of Hebrew word Messiah. It means the the anointed one, namely the one chosen by God to salvation of Jews and then humanity.

In fact, during all crisis period, humans under trouble seek a salvor to salvage them from that circumstance.

In bible, for example, Moses was a salvor for Hebrews as downtrodden people of Egypt under cruelty of Pharaoh. They had followed the Moses and then salvaged. But later, they had not wanted to follow the Moses any more and they had been punished.

As Moses, Saul was also a messiah for Hebrews chosen by God and anointed by prophet Samuel I. He had also been supported by his people and gained victory over others.

As others, Jesus was also a messiah firstly but not only Hebrews under pressure of Rome. He had shown many signs/miracles to prove that He was the Christ demanded by faithful prays of Hebrews from God to be salvaged. But He had not called them to support Him with their swords but their hearts. Because nobody could guarantee that ones supporting just with swords supported Him for truth, justice or goodness and no christ could act just a political leader of peoples that He appeared in.

According to gospels, He said in brief that “if you want to govern all world, firstly you must govern yourselves” and “if you want to correct all humanity, first of all you must correct yourselves”, and obviously said "sabbath is for humans, but humans not for sahbbat" namely the rules for humans and not humans for rules.

This main message was not the message waited by Hebrews. They had not demanded a Messiah from God to correct themselves and shake their established system but he had to guide them as a King not a moral teacher. And also His message had shaken the status of Jewish scholars.

And then Jewish scholars had started a campaign against Jesus. And when the supporter of Jesus the Christ faced with campaign of established system (status quo) represented by scholars (monks), so the ones seen his miracles and confirmed that He was the Chirst had left Him alone, even His most faithful supporter Peter had denied Him three times before crow.

They had not just left him alone but also denied him and then betrayed him by choosing Barabbas when Pilate had wanted them to choose one of the two whilst they had welcomed Him as the Christ when He entered into Jarusalem.

But later, the main massage had been removed by a man presenting himself as representative of Jesus and transforming Him from the One to be followed to the God to be worshiped as pagans' other Gods as Apollon, Mitra, Osiris etc.

So, how happy is he/she who tries to be salt of the world by performing goodness for all as in His words in gospels.

5 comments:

gökhan said...

Hi!At first thanks for that you have we remember the christ us.
It is very diffucult to follow way of the christ but I know that We have to follow way of the christ.
So,we must ask by ourselves what we do as goodness.
I will wait your writing.
(You know my english is bad. so ,maybe ı wrote wrong but I hope you understood me.)

AmaTT said...

in fact it is not so hard to walk on the way of the christ, and difficulties are mostly our imaginary acknowledgments. A wiseman said that the way towards the God contains two steps at first you step to yourself then arrive God.

Aaron G Myers said...

Ahmet, Great Blog. This is Harun. I want to add my perspective to two things. First, Moses and Saul, according to the Tevrat, were never seen as "mesiah" or "savior". They were merely God's choosen leaders of the people. In fact, in the book of Exodus (Misir'dan Cikis)it is very clear that there is no one who can save the people but Allah and Allah alone. It is a message that is repeated over and over. Second, I would like to offer a different perspective on Isa Mesih. Bana gore, In the Incil the message of Isa is not that of "governing yourselves so you can govern the world" but rather that, because of our fallen nature, because man is broken spiritually, man can neither govern himself nor the world. Not well anyway. Jesus offers a third way - abandon trying to govern both yourself and the world and rather, through me, enter the kingdom of God and allow me to govern your life for you. That is the invitation of Isa Mesih.
Anyway, that is the perspective of the Tevrat and Incil as I read them. Great blog. I hope you will keep posting.

AmaTT said...

Hi Aaron!
Firstly thanks for your kindly interest in my blog and your explanation.

As you know, the concept of Christ comes from Hebrew messiah and being salvor and king are the main image that all Hebrews realize in their minds when they use or heard messiah.

So, the concept of Messiah has a historical perspective and meaning rather than theological meaning for Hebrews that they had not accepted Jesus as messiah and continue to wait their "special messiah".

As you know, Hebrews were the first interlocutors of Jesus and Jesus was also one of them, so probably they had not understood the concept of messiah as understanding of the most of Christians.

Furthermore anointing means being messiah namely Christ for Saul and David and others and there is no need to state Christ for them.

In my opinion, to be saved by Allah can be understood in different ways coming from different viewpoints, not just that way.

Note: As you see, there is no need to approve posts to publish in this blog and i never delete any post written according to moral and ethical rules.

Aaron G Myers said...

Thank you for allowing me to take part in the conversation. I hope others will join too. Have a wonderful day.

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