The Greeks Had No Christ

‘Messiah’ is a totally Jewish thing, so why would the Greeks conveniently have a translation of it? They didn’t. ‘Christ’ was just the closest word available. It had nothing to do with the Jewish anointing of consecration; it had to do with the Egyptian embalming of dead bodies. Well, it kind of carried the ideas of pouring oil over something and of a religious act, so why not? There was nothing else. But the Greek Christ was a far cry from the Jewish intent of anointing. Who would expect the Greeks or anyone else to have a word conveying the Jewish idea of Messiah?

Which raises the question of Greek primacy. Why Greek? Yes, I know it was the empire’s lingua franca. And I have absolutely no problem with the Jew Jesus speaking and reading and writing Greek, Latin, Hebrew, or Aramaic. He was obviously a super devoted Jew. But all of the direct quotations of Jesus are Aramaic. He was raised among Aramaic speaking people. He spoke Aramaic. The Hebrew language evolved from an Aramaic base. Abraham, an Assyrian, would have spoken Aramaic. While Moses was expert in the Egyptian religions, in his language when he met God on Mount Horeb, God said, “Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh” (Exodus 3:14 Alexander). Ashur was the Creator God of the Assyrians; i.e., it’s the Assyrians who have got this Jethro thing right.

So why Greek primacy? I think it is pushed so emphatically for just one reason: to hide the Milta from the church. The Milta of the Ineffable, i.e., Its Manifestation—the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—the Godhood—anointed a devout Jew, and together with him became the Messiah-risen-from-the-dead. As one they recapitulated ALL history and reversed the fall of man and the whole influx of death. Whereby by one man sin and death had entered the world, by the Messiah they were vanquished. Being IN the Milta by submission, we are IN the Messiah. Sin, death, and guilt are vanquished to US, IF we can so submit. We stand Alive to God without sin IF we repent, leave our rebellion, and submit to God. Then the Godhood says, “I do not put it on you.”

We cannot get the full effect of The Messiah being the Milta upon a man from Christ and Logos. But like any foreign idea, it can be explained until it is understood. The Messiah being the Milta anointing a man with that man is “God is One” to the extreme. To the super extreme. Truly, by His stripes we were and are healed, for Jesus was God saving us to be that man.