{"id":2131,"date":"2012-01-31T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2012-01-31T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T04:36:07","slug":"christian-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2131\/christian-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John, you are so right!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Here is one of many references I can find online:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How many times does word \u201cChristian\u201d appear in the Bible?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> In the King James Version it appears 3x: (Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and I Peter 4:16)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> BUT<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> The New Testament manuscripts were written in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic originally not English as English did not exist at this point. <strong>The Greek word for Christian found in these passages is: Christiano meaning a follower of Christos<\/strong> (Christ). Christos means anointed\/Messiah. Mashiach is the word for Messiah in Hebrew and Paraclete is the word for Christ in Hebrew. The original disciples never had any formal &#8220;name&#8221; for themselves but were<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"> later called Christians by the Romans who occupied Antioch Greece in which the word had a very different meaning in those ancient days!<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Ron<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, you are so right! Here is one of many references I can find online: How many times does word \u201cChristian\u201d appear in the Bible? In the King James Version it appears 3x: (Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and I Peter 4:16) BUT The New Testament manuscripts were written in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}