I would like to hear from the christians on riu.

What is Christ?

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Hey Joe :P
i'm no christian, but i'm guessing it may help if you narrowed that one down a bit.. not many words, but a bloody big question!
it'd maybe get things started if u gave yer own take on it...
as for me, there is a lot of stuff written about the chap, little of which can be substantiated. i feel he was just one in a long line of many spiritual teachers, he probably never called himself the exclusive son of god and probably had no intention of a world religion being based around wild misconceptions, expansions and misuses of his very simple teachings.

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I am sorry I meant what does the word christ mean?

I am not asking for peoples perceptions or interpretations.

Answer the same way one would answer a question like: What is fog?

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Im not religious of any sort but I think Christ = Jesus

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i believe it means "the annointed one" (thx wiki <3)
doesnt have to mean Jesus of Nazareth/ The Nazarene tho..

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Kinda but not exactly.

A Christ is the same as a Buddha. It is a higher state of being. An elevated state of awareness, the perfect human consciousness.


Did you notice I never said anything about some white hippie with a Mexicans name?

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Christ is a figure that we should model our lives after. We can never be god, but we can live by his side and do good for the sake of society, for our children, for our childrens children...For ourselves.

The bible is nothing but a metaphor for a better life. Pity how we ignore it, and abuse its power to control

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The great blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

That was really a beautiful description/thought... I agree with you 110%.... However I believe Christ=SALVATION...

The price of sin is death... Through Christ we have defeated death... oooooohhh... wrap your head around that...

God bless you all... Peace and love!

His name was never Jesus Christ ad he wasn't white.

He never claimed to be the son of God.

His birthday wasn't December 25th.

I'm not a Christian but in my faith Eesa the son of Mary (whom the corrupt Romans and Jews supposedly killed, dubbed him Jesus Christ, and later spread his religion and voted him the son of God over 300 years after his "death")

Eesa was a mortal prophet- a messenger of God, and is THE messiah; even in Islam.

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I'm not a Christian even though I was raised as one. Christ and God are thought to be the same now that Christ is dead.

To me God is nature. A walk in the woods on a summer day, a flower opening to the warmth of the sun, a new born baby bird.

If feel that gathering in a building and praying at the sky while handing over 10% of your income is unproductive. If people want to give to chaity, then give, but don't do it because you think you are buying you way into some happy afterlife.