It means what it says? Thats because the bible you are reading is in ENGLISH for Christ sakes. There aer words that can be translated differently, mean different things and completely change the meaning of the text.
Do you always use the word 'Christ' that way? That alone would tell me you do not hold Him in high regard. That alone would make me doubt your Christianity, really. Please, out of respect for those of us who love and follow Him, do not use His title that way.
In the meantime, we have here in the house four interlinears dealing with both Greek and Hebrew. We have several Concordances so we can look up words. Two years ago my husband and I were invited guests in Colorado Springs at a meeting of a number of Bible translators. At the risk of sounding conceited, I am willing to say that the two of us can stand up to just about anyone alive today regarding the meaning of various biblical texts in Hebrew or in Greek. We have spent years studying.
You keep spouting off about what various languages say, but I can tell from the way you write that you are only saying what your teachers and catechisms have taught you to say. I am not impressed. You have demonstrated a number of times that you really don't know what you are talking about. But you sure do know the Catholic arguments! I'll give you that one!
However, repeating them over and over does not make them any the less false.
It was, in the meantime Constantine who started the Roman Catholic church. He already HAD the title 'Pontus Maximus.' It was a pagan title from pagan religions. The word 'diocese' comes from the Roman political system. The perfectly round wafers bear no resemblance at all to the bread broken by Jesus at the Last Supper. However they were in existence as 'communion' wafers for the sun god for a long time before Christianity. Their very roundness was required because they were representatives of the round sun.
I would venture to say that you have not a clue how many bits of Roman Catholicism have their direct beginnings with paganism.
Christianity, however, is different. The first meeting places were in houses. The first communion celebrations were actual meals. Scripture and the Apostles' letters were studied diligently and quoted in hundreds of letters, many of which we still have. It is from these letters, as a matter of fact, that we know that the books of the Bible were accepted as Holy Scripture before the Council at Nicea. All they did was confirm them. Origen (186-254), Eusebius (260-339), Athanasius (209-373), and Cyril of Jerusalem (315-386) all recognized the same books as Scripture that we do.
And, by the way, there was nothing Hellenized about the Jews in Jerusalem! And it was from among them, as mentioned by Aineo, I think, that the first believers in Jesus came.
RomeSweetHome, I am stunned by your ignorance but admire your determination to defend it.