What is a Christian?

[Colin2000]

Hi All,

Whilst visiting another new Christian Website I came across this Question, 

"What is a Christian?"

How would you answer this question here I wonder?

Yours in Christ,

Colin.

[Ruth Ann]

A disciple of Jesus.

[Colin2000]

A disciple of Jesus.

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Hi Ruth,

So that brings us to the next question,

"What is Christianity?"

Sounds like a simple enough question does it not!

Yours in Christ,

Colin.

[Ruth Ann]

Christianity is the state of following Jesus.

[Colin2000]

Hi Ruth and All,

Do we want to discuss the third and last question I wonder,

How do we do this bearing in mind there could well be one/some here who are a little hazy on this one??? .... !

Yours in Christ,

Colin.

PS. Now how would I shine a light through the haze when discussing my 'in Christ'?

[Ruth Ann]

“He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.”
(John 3:18 WEB)

It's simple yet might involve more explanation to someone who didn't understand.

Might need some questions.

[Colin2000]

Hi Ruth,

I am sure you are right, the blessing here is this that believers here who trust in the LORD will find the LORD not through the reason of man but because He will find you and I as we well know!

I thought this was a crass subject for mature Christians and Seekers who seek trusting in The LORD even when they are young in the faith here?

I have just come from a new forum on Religion and ethics where the pen palls there wouldn't know The LORD if He came down from heaven on a cloud and had Himself Crown in their midst before them all!

Unbelievers to a woman, refuges from the BBC religious forums now defunct because they were all to hot potatoes to handle anymore on the BBC  forums and Sunday morning religious Christian hazard discussion groups!

I even thought of joining them in debate but how can you fellowship with the lost in this world and the next!  Better to talk to the LORD about the problem here abouts in prayer and intercession!

Yours in Christ,

Colin2000.

PS.  Pray that they do not find their way to here or another Forum of the LORD will join them in their disbelief and sin!

[Ruth Ann]

This same topic is on ZB, started by LIMS.

http://zolaboard.levitt.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1157605#Post1157605

It's a good one.

People don't understand terms and sometimes we can't explain them which might mean we should go back and find out their meaning!

[a2jgrammy]

Is being a 'true' Christians living a life style?

Is it loving God?  Loving Yeshua, and letting the HS led us?

Hard to do isn't it unless we are constantly in the Word and praying for understanding in reading the Word. IMO

[Ruth Ann]

Hi Ruth,

I am sure you are right, the blessing here is this that believers here who trust in the LORD will find the LORD not through the reason of man but because He will find you and I as we well know!

I thought this was a crass subject for mature Christians and Seekers who seek trusting in The LORD even when they are young in the faith here?

I have just come from a new forum on Religion and ethics where the pen palls there wouldn't know The LORD if He came down from heaven on a cloud and had Himself Crown in their midst before them all!

Unbelievers to a woman, refuges from the BBC religious forums now defunct because they were all to hot potatoes to handle anymore on the BBC  forums and Sunday morning religious Christian hazard discussion groups!

I even thought of joining them in debate but how can you fellowship with the lost in this world and the next!  Better to talk to the LORD about the problem here abouts in prayer and intercession!

Yours in Christ,

Colin2000.

PS.  Pray that they do not find their way to here or another Forum of the LORD will join them in their disbelief and sin!

I think we would welcome them here!

They would be in the Christians' den. 
It might be hard for them to scream and carry one without any one screaming and carrying on back.

I went to that forum that Saundthorpe was on. Chatted a bit about 'belief'. After about 3 posts nobody wanted to talk to me. 

[hupo]

The first thing that springs to mind from your questions is...no! I am not a Christian! I am A Jew!

Now regardless of the meaning behind what I just said, the fact is I feel this way! and believe you/me I am not the only one
Now this of course brings up the question of why use a specific label for what one believes in?
Yes it is important for clarification when discussing one's faith with fellow human beings, yet at the same time it also stops communication for the sole reason of labels being antagonistic to some.

Lets look at it this way. You Colin and me, seem to believe in very much the same views. No problem should arise from anything we discuss, but lets say I do not call myself a "Christian" and insist on it, while you on the other hand insist on it being the only label appropriate (hold on there, it's just an example!) - In this case we would be at logger heads with each other, maybe stop talking to each other or worse.
OK, so it won't happen to us but I am sure you've seen it happen

So, if you are talking about the label, this discussion is not for me, yet, if you are talking about the essence, be it behind the label "christian" or "yellow cheese", then we have much in common.

Hope you see what I am getting at....

David

[Ruth Ann]

David, of course most of us understand your disgust of the name, Christian. It's just that for 65 years, that's what I have called myself. Well, except for those many years I didn't believe anything...

How would you define your faith? What word?

If you had to write what faith you had on your hospital admission, what you say?

[hupo]

David, of course most of us understand your disgust of the name, Christian. It's just that for 65 years, that's what I have called myself. Well, except for those many years I didn't believe anything...

No, disgust is not the word I would use. There is nothing wrong with the word itself. It's just me who has bad connotations with it.
I definitely don't have an issue with Christians. I personally don't use the word.
That is the reason I asked if we are talking about the label or about the essence.

How would you define your faith? What word?

If you had to write what faith you had on your hospital admission, what you say?

I would do the best I could not to define it verbally, that is, with one or two words.
I would rather say what I believe in which is Yeshuah and his great sacrifice for me, for us, and that He is the only way to the Father.
A single word or two cannot describe a whole faith system unless we are all agreed on what these words mean.
Does the whole world know what "Christian" means? Is it a unanimous knowledge? I think we all know the answer to that.

So when the topic question is "What is a Christian?" my answer would inevitably be the same as yours, Colins and others here, in essence. Not in the verbal sense.

I know...I know....it sounds like splitting hairs. Well that's me, "Hupo the hair splitter" and there is a verbal label!

David

[Ruth Ann]