The Many Different Types Of Christ

By Barbara Collins


Life is all about certain things, certain milestones that a person is expected to hit. First, they are expected to cry out, just to let their parents know they are alive. Then are expected to grow up, go to school, and then graduate college. Then they are supposed to find a job, to find gainful employment. Over the course of all of that, they are supposed to find a romantic partner, preferably someone of an opposite gender. The pairing is then expected to produce at least one child, although two or three are preferred. Then, they are supposed to buy a house, a home where they can put their family so they will be safe and comfortable behind a white picket fence. Society also dictates that the whole family is to trudge to a place of worship at least one time a week, where under the guidance of a reverend or a priest, they will ponder on the types of Christ.

Religion is an organized set of spiritual beliefs. There will usually be a central figure, a spiritual founder. Now, there will be places of worships, usually churches or temples of some sort. There will also be some behavioral guidelines that the believers are expected to follow every day in their lives.

Christianity is a religion that can outline its roots to Judaism. This particular religion can trace its origins back to what is currently what the world now calls the Middle East. The main message of it is love and forgiveness, about forgiving and loving each other.

Now, there are so many people worship, and so many reasons that their interpretations of the gospels they believe in all differ. Some people see their founder in many different ways, so many different points of view to look at one single person. This person is put on a pedestal, whether rightly so or not.

The title of Christ means the anointed one. This means that the individual with the title is seen as the chosen one, the one to redeem all the sins of man. Indeed, this is one of the central tenets of Christianity, that the crucified carpenter, in allowing the crucifixion to happen in the first place, that all the sins of humanity up to that point were then forgiven.

Which leads to the aspect of being the redeemer. Most religions show a higher power that brings forth thunder and lightning to bring about some retribution to those that commit sins. But the carpenter preached a message of redemption, of a supreme being who will forgive those who commit transgression against others.

There is a belief that the carpenter was a king, born to a prophecy. Born to redeem and lead the world. This is a point of contention with the other Abrahamic religions, as the others see the carpenter as a prophet, a great prophet, but prophet nonetheless.

Then there is another aspect, that of the prophet. In essence, this may be most readily believed. Because the carpenter did wander the desert and did spread about a gospel of love to fellow man, or at the very least, a modicum of decency, of not being a dick to other.

Mileage is going to vary. In the same vein that not every car is going to have the same gas mileage, the gospels are not going to affect the listeners in the exact same way. Which is why it is best to look into the different points of view.




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