Christ is a job description, not a name

Ever heard of Jesus H. Christ? I've heard it plenty of times, though no one has ever told me what the "H."stands for. The only thing they've all been sure of was that his last name was Christ. It wasn't.

If you want to be technical, in his earthly life he was probably known as Yeshua bar-Youssef: Jesus son of Joseph. There were no last names as such among the Jews of first-century Judea. So where did "Christ" come from? It comes from the Greek word christos, which is just a translation of the Hebrew word messiah, or "Anointed One". A Christ was a person anointed by God to save his people.

Jesus was not the son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ. He was the Saviior chosen by God.