Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
There is only one Truth: His Name is Jesus the Christ of Nazareth.
I don't believe Jesus ever called himself the Christ...For example, in Matthew 19:17, Jesus responded to one who addressed him as “O good masterâ€, saying: “Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God.†If he rejected being called “goodâ€,[2] and stated that only God is truly good, he clearly implies that he is not God.
The Jesus who was called Christos, "Anointed," took his title from
Middle-Eastern savior-gods like Adonis and Tammuz, born of the Virgin
Sea-goddess Aphrodite-Maria (Myrrha), or Ishtar-Mari (Hebrew Mariamne).
Earlier biblical versions of the same hero were Joshua son of Nun
(Exodus 33:11), Jehu son of Nimshi, whom Elijah anointed as a sacred
king (1 Kings 19:16), and Yeshua son of Morah, The Book of Enoch said
in the 2nd century B.C.E. that Yeshua or Jesus was the secret name
given by God to the Son of Man (a Persian title), and that it meant
"Yahweh saves."
In northern Israel the name was written Ieu. It was the same as Ieud
or Jeud, the "only-begotten son" dressed in royal robes and sacrificed
by god-king Isra-El. Greek versions of the name were Iasion, Jason, or
Iasus -- the name of one of Demeter's sacrificed consorts, killed by
Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his mother.
Iasus signified a healer Therapeuta, as the Greeks called the
Essenes, whose cult groups always included a man with the title of
Christos. The literal meaning of the name was "healing moon-man,"
fitting the Hebrew version of Jesus as a son of Mary, the almah or
"moon maiden."
It seems Jesus was not one person but a composite of many.
http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys3/christ.htm