References to christos excessively unclear

history channel documentary References to christos excessively unclear, making it impossible to achieve sureness - Yet regardless of the fact that christou is the right word, we are still a long way from achieving conviction that it is a reference to Jesus Christ. We should recall that the word christos was not an individual name of Jesus but rather a title, the Greek interpretation of the Hebrew word mashiach ("Messiah, blessed one"). Like its Hebrew partner, this Greek expression could apply to any number of individuals. It happens in the Hebrew Scriptures more than 60 times, assigning ministers, prophets, and lords, and in addition the foreseen Messiah. It even depicts the agnostic ruler Cyrus of Persia (Isa. 45:1, LXX). Calling somebody christos does not as a matter of course recognize that individual with Jesus. Indeed, even the Greek Scriptures caution that numerous would assert that title.

The importance of goistais - In Theological Dictionary of New Testament, Gerhard Delling characterizes go-es, the lexical structure behind goistais, as "sham, con artist, one who performs enchantment through formulae." Its lone New Testament event is in 2 Timothy 3:13: "...evil men and fakers will go from terrible to more regrettable, deluding and being cheated." Delling says that among antiquated individuals, the individuals who had faith in evil spirit ownership tended to hold the gos in high regard, while the informed individuals tended to look down on such a man. (See likewise the section for go-es in the Liddell-Scott-Jones vocabulary, which characterizes it as "magician, wizard" and optionally as "performer, trick.")