Tuesday, June 18, 2013

100 Names of Christ


I once studied various world religions and learned that the Muslims have 99 names for God, or Allah as they call Him. They beleive that if they know these names, they will enter paradise. At the time, I thought 99 names was a bit excessive, but recently, I've been noticing the names that we use for Christ. There are a lot. Just think of Christmas songs alone, and there are probably a few you cannot list without singing them (ex, Wonderful Counselor).
 So, as an activity for Family Home Evening last night, I decided to see if we could list a name or title of Christ for each letter of the alphabet. It started out like that, but as we were enjoying the activity and trying to find names for the hard letters, we ended up with a list of 100 names. And that wasn't listing all of the names listed in the Bible Dictionary. Here's our list:


  1. Advocate
  2. Atoning One
  3. Almighty God
  4. Anointed One
  5. Author of our Salvation
  6. Author and Finisher of our Faith
  7. Alpha and Omega
  8. Bright and Morning star
  9. Eldest Brother
  10. Bridegroom
  11. Bread of Life
  12. Branch
  13. Beloved Son of God
  14. Chosen of God
  15. Consolation of Israel
  16. Christ
  17. Creator
  18. Cornerstone
  19. Captain of our Salvation
  20. Carpenter
  21. Deliverer
  22. Divine Redeemer
  23. Everlasting Father
  24. Emmanuel
  25. Father
  26. Fountain of Living Waters
  27. Fountain of Everlasting Life
  28. Foreordained
  29. Firstborn
  30. Governor
  31. Great Jehovah
  32. Good Shepard
  33. God of the whole Earth
  34. Heir
  35. Head of the Church
  36. Holy Infant
  37. Most high Priest
  38. Holy One
  39. Hope of Glory
  40. I am
  41. Jesus of Nazareth
  42. Jesus Christ
  43. Jesus of Galilee
  44. The Just one
  45. Judge
  46. Jehovah
  47. Jew
  48. King of Kings
  49. King of the Jews
  50. Lord
  51. Lord of hosts
  52. Lord of the Saboath
  53. Lord of Lords
  54. Living bread
  55. Lamb of God
  56. Light of the World
  57. Messenger of the Covenant
  58. Messiah
  59. Mediator
  60. Master
  61. Meek and Lowly
  62. Nazarene
  63. Newborn King
  64. Only-Begotten Son
  65. Prince of Peace
  66. Prophet
  67. Judge of the Quick and the Dead
  68. Redeemer
  69. Rabboni
  70. Rabbi
  71. Rock
  72. Ressurection and the Life
  73. Savior
  74. Shepard
  75. Son of God
  76. Son of Man
  77. Son of Abraham
  78. Son of Mary
  79. Son of David
  80. Seed of the woman
  81. Shiloh
  82. Stem of Jesse
  83. Wondrous Stranger
  84. Servant
  85. Teacher
  86. Undefiled
  87. Lord of the Vineyard
  88. One true Vine
  89. Wonderful Counselor
  90. Word
  91. the Way, the Truth and the Life
  92. Exemplar
  93. the same Yesterday, Today and Forever
  94. Yaweh
  95. King of Zion
  96. Light
  97. Seed of Abraham 
  98. Seed of David
  99. Counselor
  100. Holy Anointed One
It was really interesting to look at this list and see how much He has done, is doing and will do for us. And how broad the scope, from humble Carpenter to Creator of the world. From Holy Infant to Redeemer. It's really amazing, and something worth pondering. I'm thinking of making this into a quiet book for my kids to use during Sacrament meeting. Can you think of any more names we missed?