Redemptive suffering He made Himself human in Jesus in order to redeem mankind: It is believed that Jesus freed mankind from the bondage of sin: Thus one may consider that God paid for mankind's freedom from sin in His human incarnation: The belief is that the price that God, in Jesus, paid for the redemption of mankind, is the Passion, that is, his suffering and agony that led directly to his Crucifixion. Christians believe that, as members of the Church, they are members of the body of Jesus Christ: Hence, orthodox Catholic theology presents the belief that our suffering can be united
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament word Christ is so closely associated with Jesus that it is apparent that for the early Christians there is no need to claim that Jesus is Christ, for that is considered widely accepted among them. Hence Paul can use the term "Christos" with no confusion as to whom it refers to, and as in and he can use expressions such as "in Christ" to refer to the followers of Jesus. Symbols for representing Christ (i.e. Christograms) were developed by early Christians, e.g. the "Chi Rho" symbol formed by superimposing the first two Greek letters in Christ ( Greek : "Χριστός"