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1 Other Gnostic texts with Jesus Christ include the Gospel of Thomas and the ________.

2 Most Christians now wait for the Second Coming of Christ when they believe he will fulfill the rest of the ________.

3 In Neo-Theosophy, C.W. Leadbeater promulgated a Nestorian/Gnostic Christology that was taught by ________, is taught by Benjamin Creme, and is accepted today by most Theosophists.

4 In the theology of ________, Mary Baker Eddy, the religion's founder, wrote in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, that:

5 The ________ generally believed not in a Jesus who was a divine person with a human form, but in a spiritual christ who dwelt in Jesus.

6 In the Septuagint version of the ________, it was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew mashiach (messiah), meaning "anointed."[3]

7 [citation needed] The ________ states several such instances, one being:

8 In the Rosicrucian writings of Max Heindel, also known as Western Wisdom Teachings, there is a distinction to be made between ________ and the Christ.

9 [1] It is a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ), usually transliterated into English as ________.

10 The word is in fact used as a ________, hence its common reciprocal use Christ Jesus, meaning The Anointed One, or The Messiah, Jesus.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Gero Cross (pictured) of about 970 AD is one of the earliest known depictions of the dead Christ on the cross?
  • the tablet known as Gabriel's Revelation, written in Hebrew before the birth of Christ, allegedly tells of a man killed by the Romans and resurrected after three days?
  • the ex-monastery of San Francisco in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, has a wax figure of Christ in a glass coffin (pictured), the limbs of which are claimed to be growing?
  • the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i (pictured) in the Cusco Region of Peru commemorates events which included the transformation of a boy into a bush with an image of Christ hanging from it?
  • the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke, the main ceremonial entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople, marked the beginning of the Byzantine Iconoclasm?
  • the Norman church in Pawlett, Somerset has a stained glass window showing Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
  • the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to Christ"?
  • Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin (pictured) appears to be unique in 15th century art in depicting Christ and God the Father as identical figures?
  • Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity?
  • Peter of Atroa was accused of exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub, not the power of Christ?
  • a woman named Priscilla, wife of Aquila, was one of the first Christian evangelists?
  • in Early Medieval art Christ treading on the beasts (pictured) often showed Christ trampling on a lion, asp, basilisk and dragon, all representing the devil?
  • William Blake sought in his illustrations of Milton's Nativity Ode (example pictured) to depict the rebirth of John Milton's poetry into the creative imagination of Christ?
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