monkey nonsense

jesus christ vs. christ jesus

is there any significance to using one over the other? paul seems to have used both at one point in time in his letters.

i googled. i got really excited when the first page returned came with a description “Paul clarifies to Timothy the difference between Jesus Christ vs Christ Jesus, and notably by using both “Jesus Christ” vs “Christ Jesus” in the ’same…” sweet!! the exact answer i wanted!

unfortunately, the page was called “Christ Jesus or Jesus Christ: Which is Witch - GodShew” uh…. yea… but i was curious anyways. the page was uber confusing to simple-minded-me. i have no clue what the crap they were talking about. (allegorizes?? allegorically?? who knew you could conjugate the word allegory in so many ways!) i did like how they counted the number of instances of both phrases (”Jesus Christ” wins). i didn’t really know what the freak they were talking about, but i had the weirdest feeling that i didn’t really trust them…

then it misquoted 2 Timothy 1:1 as using both “Christ Jesus” and “Jesus Christ” when in my version of the Bible (NIV), it uses “Christ Jesus” both times. so… does that mean the counts it told me earlier are messed up?

so i’m done googling. because the internet is a scary place. will someone please just explain to me if there’s a difference between the two? we were thinking maybe it was just something that got mixed up in translation. but it seems odd because paul uses both. in the same letter so you would think either 1. paul would’ve used a consistent word in his letter or 2. the translators would’ve used a consistent translation throughout the letter?

i like the conclusion drawn in small group. that perhaps Jesus was just practicing the Chinese way of having one’s last name first. which brought up another question…. what’s Jesus’ last name? it’s probably not Christ. since he was the son of Joseph, would he be Jesus Josephson? or is he the son of God, so therefore Jesus Godson?