WOW. This is the direction I wanted to go. I love oneness in faith and doctrine. We THINK in the same direction.
First, the Bible defines that Christian is disciple of Christ.
Then the Bible defines who disciple of Christ is.
Disciple of Christ according to the Bible is the one who keeps this commandment of Christ: love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another by this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
So, I love my brothers and sisters in Christ. I love my family, friends, neighbors. I love people as Christ loves me. Sometimes I fail but I repent.
Conclusion: according to the Bible I who is LDS(Mormon) keep this commandment of Christ which makes me disciple of Christ. Which makes me Christian.
Thank you, Bible, for letting me know that I am Christian. It is very important to me that according to the Bible(Word of God) I am Christian. Opinions of men are not that important to me IF they CONTRADICT the Word of God.
This is a relevant passage to the discussion of being a disciple of Jesus:
John 6:41-70
The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.” And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets,
‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us
His flesh to eat?”
Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.
Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard
this, said, “
This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”
When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them,
“Does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”
From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
