when was the word christian first used as a believer of christ acts 11 26 where it states and the disciples were called christians first in antioch the greek word used in the passage is christianos meaning follower of christ if you do your research you'll actually find that there is much information about the book of matthew being written in hebrew george howard published a book called the hebrew gospel of matthew in his book he shows the original hebrew version of matthew on one side of the page and the english version on the other side what i find amazing is that the word messiah which is actually mashiach is in almost every place where you see christ in the king james version the early believers were called christians or christianos in the greek and aramic manuscripts but not in the hebrew the correct word would have been masayak or messiah which is what the disciples hebrews judah or yahudah and early believers would have called the savior the word christian and christ originates from the greek word christos which is the greek translation of the hebrew word masayak both words basically mean anointed hebraic bibles restored the word to messianics what most modern christians don't realize is that there was a deity by the name of serapis whose followers were called christianos christians as early as 200 bce there were pagan worshipers of therapists that called themselves christians at the vatican this statue of the roman pagan deity mithras with the words crestus mithras mithrasism was the main pagan religion of ancient rome and became blended with the messianics of israel through the compromises of the nisian council headed by constantine and his son crispus the iconic scenes of mithras show him being born from a rock slaughtering a bull and sharing a banquet with the god soul the sun thus we have a merge of the early church of rome with mithraicism and forming the rcc roman catholic church the early assembly of believers referred to in the hebrew tongue as messianics would not want to call themselves christians or christianos they were called christians or christianos by non-believers and not by themselves the true followers of the messiah would not want to be called after the name of pagan worshipers of serapis these worshippers of serapis have been called themselves christianos for more than two centuries before the messiah was even born it's obvious that the non-believers were confusing the messianic believers with the worshippers of serapis this is how paganism got mixed into the truth and just as paul xiaou had stated the mystery of iniquity had already begun to work in his days why were the early believers called christianos a greek word in antioch antioch was an ancient greek city only a greek speaking person will call the followers of the anointed the messiah the mashiach christianos antioch was the capital of the seleucid empire and later became a major metropolis in the roman empire the kingdom of the the original biblical manuscripts were not written in english of them the most popular were the septuagint which was written in greek peshita which was written in middle aramic the textus receptus written in greek and the vulgate which was written in latin the septuagint is a pre-christian translation of the hebrew bible and some related texts into coined greek the greek manuscripts are called the codex vaticanus and codex syneticus fragments are dated around the end of the 2nd century and complete scripts are dated around the 4th century the king james version of the bible was not translated from the septuagint but from the textus receptus why is this important to know if you research rome or romans you will notice that it is not recorded in the old testament at all but you will find it in the apocrypha which was removed out of the 1611 king james bible you can also find the word romans in the book of daniel of the septuagint were they deliberately trying to hide who the romans are in the septuagint the book of daniel 11 30 translates the occurrence of kittim in as romans maccabees 1 1 states that alexander the great the macedonian had come from the land of kitim or the land of the romans joshua 1016 and the children of chittim are the roman romans who dwell in the valley of canopia by the river tibber there is a reason why the books were removed out of the bible or not included in the scriptures the bible mentions the book of jasher yet when you pan through the pages there's no book of joshua in the bible there were more than a hundred books not included in the bible and i wonder why there is estimated to be about 100 books that have been either removed or not included in the bible the catholics even debated on whether or not to remove the book of revelation out of the bible lewis ginsburg in his book titled legends of the jews writes they esau and jacob will never be in the same estate esau will vaunt lourdes while jacob will have kings they israel and rome are the two nations destined to be hated by all the world one will exceed the other in strength first esau will subjugate the whole world this is a white man's world white man from europe dominates the whole planet white men goes into any country and kill everybody take over anything they want this is a white man's country it's a white man's world but in the end jacob will rule over all legends volume 1 page 314. ginsburg further relates that god will call out to the messiah roar at this monster that devours the fat of the nations that justifies its claims for recognition through being a descendant of abraham by his grandson esau the nation that kept israel back from the study of the torah and tempted them to deeds that are in accord with the wishes of satan legends volume 3 page 167 dawn isaiah abarbanel 1437-1508 a wealthy jewish statesman and philosopher believed that a tradition existed that many of the early christians were ernest l martin an author historian theologian and meteorologist in a book titled the people that history forgot claimed that most of the from edom and many from tyre went to the west to italy and other places where they became christian his book says that the migrated in masses to western regions of the roman empire they became christian but retained something of their previous practices and influenced early christianity with their pagan traditions esau like jacob was a mighty man of renown in ancient times he was an explorer and wanderer as well as a mighty hunter he and his descendants the also founded or were part of the founding of such ancient world empires as that of rome troy tyre and carthage italy as well as spain and the ottoman empire in fact the book of joshua contains the following pertinent information and the children of chitim continued their pursuit of edom and they smote them with a great slaughter and edom became subject to the children of chittim and the children of chittim ruled over edom and edom became under the hand of the children of jitim and became one kingdom from that day and from that time they could no more lift up their heads and their kingdom became one with the children of chitin