Shouldn't Christ name be Joseph instead of Jesus christ?

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LoveMakerL

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Hmm, I could be way off about this, and probably wrong but I was wondering during this time and that part of world, shouldn't Christ be named after his father Joseph? Didn't they do that back then and that place of the world?

Even though he is son of god, he still was born in that era, so only makes Sense to be named Joseph considering Joseph married Mary.

Also the name Christ always sounded latin to me, blargh I don't know, I think I might be wrong with everything I just said. Am I?

English is my second language, and sorry to always say that, but if I don't people get very confused XD And mock my grammar
 
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brian

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Joseph was Jesus's adopted father.
Mary was the mother of Jesus, God is the Father of Jesus, Joseph was His adopted father.
 
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hst_dan

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Ahhh, here is the problem! Jews are given a first name and designated as the son or daughter of their father. Jews would have called him Yashua ben Yosef or Yashua bar Yosef (Joshua son of Joseph). The tradition was to give a different given name from the father - so you'd never have a Joseph ben/bar Joseph

But the early church declared that Mary was a virgin. This is from a mistranslation of Issiah which says that the Messiah will be born of a young woman. This corruption was unknown to Yashua's generation (as it happened 50-150 years later). So the early church just cut out the "ben Yosef" off his name.

The Bible was spoken in Aramaic - the common man's derivation of Hebrew. But in the packaging to be exported to the outside world, the Bible was translated into Greek and later Latin. In that packaging, Yashua became Jesus. And the word cristos (meaning messiah) followed his name. Again, this was after he died..
 
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MikeH

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The name transliterated as Jesus in Aramaic is actually most related to the name Joshua. If you look at other parts of the Bible, there aren't any instances of sons being named for their father, so I would say it wasn't really the tradition.

Christ is actually from a Greek term christos which is a translation of the hebrew messiah, meaning Anointed One. It's not a name, but a title, like King or Duke.
 
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lulla13yl

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No, people in ancient Palestine were not (commonly) named after their fathers. Jesus is a Greek/Latin rendition of a the Hebrew name "Joshua / Jeshua".

Christ is only a title. Also, it's Greek (christos). ;)
 
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