rylah
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Saul spoke of David.
Christ is called The Son of David and is descended from The Davidic Line.
When He returns, He returns to Jerusalem to rule as Messiah Bin David from The Throne of David. He returns to expand Israel to the borders defined by Abraham and to restore peace upon The Earth for He is The Prince of Peace.
Messiah refers to anyone, such as king Saul anonted by God's prophet.
But there is only ONE Messiah for Christians, Jesus Christ The Messiah who was put to death on The Cross. I am not about to Reject Jesus Christ for ANYONE.
That's because You project foreign meanings into words from another language.
According to the original Hebrew definition, what William said is 100% correct.
Okay, but I have never heard anyone personally refer to eg. Saul as The Messiah.
Messiah= anointed.
All Jewish kings were anointed, however in the Torah (to the best of my knowledge) only 2 of them are referred to with the adjective 'messiah' - King Shaul is one:
"And he said to his men, "The Lord forbid it for me, that I should do this thing to my lord, to the Lord's anointed, to stretch forth my hand upon him, for he is the Lord's anointed."
(Shmuel 1, 24: 7)
Regarding the quote, the first comment is incorrect.
David speaks of King Shaul.
I don't mean to be unpleasant, but if I understand the definition of 'Christ', then the second part of Your response is irrational. Once he is called son of Joseph and then son of David in the same breath, and then he's supposed to have no human father?
I think I already told You, Judaism was not much a religion in the sense of Christianity or Islam,
we're commanded to know, know G-d, one who is not a man, and has no image, or an image of a body.
That's basics,
How do we know? Dig the Torah and have a relationship with G-d, not a messiah.
In Zen, they say - "don't stare at the finger pointing at the moon".