Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
A Christian is:Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
Those who receive repentance to life through Jesus Christ of Nazareth.Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
Now this sounds like a whole different thread....but I will interject. Yes there is a difference today, and I say today because the Apostles did not encourage Jewish practices on Gentiles however Jewish converts who followed Jesus had and or still have a hard time breaking from tradition.This has always bothered me, that there are Jewish believers who prefer to call themselves by another name. I do like the term Messianic, but when people use it to divide themselves from the Church it really makes me disdain the term. The apostles taught that there is no difference between the Jew and Gentile in Christ, such a division doesn't exist. We are one people, of one body, of one Lord, with one baptism, indwelled with one Spirit, and one inheritance.
But, Dave, I will consider what you have brought up. How about the first letter of Peter that was written to...
"...those who are the elect exiles of the Dispersion..." - (v. 1)
He says in that same book,
"Yet, if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name." - (v. 4:16)
What are your thoughts?
A Christian is a disciple of the post-resurrected Christ first given to disciples in Acts 11.Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
We need to define it because we use words. Words are useless for communication if we don’t agree on a definition. Unless the particular word is used in prayer only.It doesn't matter what we think. I don't understand the need for us to define it.
Simple answer: A follower of Jesus.Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
The answer is in the definition of the word Christian. Christ is a transliteration of Christos which means anointed or anointed one. The "ian" ending means "of or belonging to." So literally, the word Christian means, "he who belongs to the anointed one." If you belong to Christ, you're a Christian.Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
Not really, the word for church (ekklesia) is used throughout the Greek OT (LXX) for Israel. At Sinai, Israel is called the church.Jesus founded a Church.
A follower of Jesus Christ.Please give me a good thoughtful and prayerful answer, and if you can use Scripture.
Yeah, because the nation of Israel were chosen by God, and now the Gentiles are included there.Not really, the word for church (ekklesia) is used throughout the Greek OT (LXX) for Israel. At Sinai, Israel is called the church.
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.He founded a way of life, not an institution and the people following this way contrary to the world of man were the church.
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