The title Lord is undoubtedly one of the most Important honorific titles of Jesus Christ In the New Testament, because It inevitably leads to His identification as the blessed second person of the Godhead is identified as the Incarnate God in many other ways in Scripture, but no other single title is more exalted than Lord in proclaiming His Deity and His Equality with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit
In the New Testament, there are two meaningful terms rendered by the English word Lord by the translators of the authorized version. The more common of the two is ”Kurius” the other is “Despotes.”
In the scriptures, both terms are used for Jesus as well as Jehovah, and in secular writings for the pagan deities and emperors who were counted to be as absolute masters and gods to be worshipped by their people.
Now the term "despotes" was used by the Greeks to certain gods and persons who executed unrestricted power an absolute dominion over others without any limitations or restrains whatsoever. It was particularly a term used for one who owns slaves and exercises the right to determine the exposal of their bodies as well as their abilities and energies.
Despotes is used with extreme care In the New Testament for the lord and honor of the house, for the master of slaves and as an advocate of prayer to god. Now it's not at all surprising to find such an honorific title which insist upon absolute and unrestricted ownership and disposal of others used for Jesus Christ as well as God the Father.
Paul in his Epistles does not hesitate for a moment to count himself as all Christians do to be a slave of God. And that the purchase price for our slavery from Satan, and death, and sin is the blood of Jesus Christ.
This concept of absolute ownership of the believer by his Lord is inherent by the term “redeemed” for redemption speaks for the purchase of slaves from the marketplace. The term "despotes" in no doubt express in the lips of the faithful who used it their sense of God absolute disposal of His creatures and of His autocratic power who does according to His will in the army of heaven as well as among the inhabitants of the earth as we read in Daniel 4:35.
Now at the time of the New Testament when it was being written, we were told that there were words 'Lords many' and 'gods many' by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 8:5.
The Roman empire spread like an octopus The problem with the Roman senate was to unify the states, nations, and with the many multitude of languages and religions And it's obvious that pay revision common to all must be found if real unity of spirit to bring about what is called Pax Romana.
Now, none of the religions of the western world be suitable for this purpose. So a new religion must be created for the sake of the political unity. Keep in mind that it was the sake of this political unity that this unity was designed.
It was determined that a god should be created for all the Pax Romana, the Roman Peace meant to the Provincials, and the emperor should be declared as kurius and theos, both lord and god. When Rome saw the potential veneration it held in terms of bringing political unity, they seized upon the idea tying Caesar to a “loyalty oath.” Therefore every citizen was mandated to take a loyalty oath for the political unity of Rome.
Of course, the Christians who believed as did Paul, there is but one God the Father, who is all in us, and the Lord Jesus, who is all in us, would never say even under the penalty of death, ‘Caesar is Lord.'
To Be Continued...
In the New Testament, there are two meaningful terms rendered by the English word Lord by the translators of the authorized version. The more common of the two is ”Kurius” the other is “Despotes.”
In the scriptures, both terms are used for Jesus as well as Jehovah, and in secular writings for the pagan deities and emperors who were counted to be as absolute masters and gods to be worshipped by their people.
Now the term "despotes" was used by the Greeks to certain gods and persons who executed unrestricted power an absolute dominion over others without any limitations or restrains whatsoever. It was particularly a term used for one who owns slaves and exercises the right to determine the exposal of their bodies as well as their abilities and energies.
Despotes is used with extreme care In the New Testament for the lord and honor of the house, for the master of slaves and as an advocate of prayer to god. Now it's not at all surprising to find such an honorific title which insist upon absolute and unrestricted ownership and disposal of others used for Jesus Christ as well as God the Father.
Paul in his Epistles does not hesitate for a moment to count himself as all Christians do to be a slave of God. And that the purchase price for our slavery from Satan, and death, and sin is the blood of Jesus Christ.
This concept of absolute ownership of the believer by his Lord is inherent by the term “redeemed” for redemption speaks for the purchase of slaves from the marketplace. The term "despotes" in no doubt express in the lips of the faithful who used it their sense of God absolute disposal of His creatures and of His autocratic power who does according to His will in the army of heaven as well as among the inhabitants of the earth as we read in Daniel 4:35.
Now at the time of the New Testament when it was being written, we were told that there were words 'Lords many' and 'gods many' by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 8:5.
The Roman empire spread like an octopus The problem with the Roman senate was to unify the states, nations, and with the many multitude of languages and religions And it's obvious that pay revision common to all must be found if real unity of spirit to bring about what is called Pax Romana.
Now, none of the religions of the western world be suitable for this purpose. So a new religion must be created for the sake of the political unity. Keep in mind that it was the sake of this political unity that this unity was designed.
It was determined that a god should be created for all the Pax Romana, the Roman Peace meant to the Provincials, and the emperor should be declared as kurius and theos, both lord and god. When Rome saw the potential veneration it held in terms of bringing political unity, they seized upon the idea tying Caesar to a “loyalty oath.” Therefore every citizen was mandated to take a loyalty oath for the political unity of Rome.
Of course, the Christians who believed as did Paul, there is but one God the Father, who is all in us, and the Lord Jesus, who is all in us, would never say even under the penalty of death, ‘Caesar is Lord.'
To Be Continued...