You said "Seems to me you need to take care of that "unsure" part of YOUR LIFE before telling others how they should live theirs."
I'm sure. I answered your question I am "unsure" about whether I am a "Christian" as most think of it. I live like Messiah and keep His testimony though I doubt many Christians would accept that I am a Christian. So again I am saved as you say but not to add to the question of this post what is salvation according to Scripture?... Hope you see what I mean. I am not trying to be contentious with y'all just honest. Maybe accuse was the wrong choice of word. I still think it was poor taste to question my salvation based on whether I call myself Christian.
Not all of Isreal are born again Christians just as there is a difference between and outward Jew accoring to the flesh and an inawrd Jew who has been born again from above.
It is God who re-named His prople a new name in the book of Acts. His church, His bride Christian for a reason.
According to the scriptures salvation called redemption is to have ones sin(eternal damnation) atoned for, by another who gave his own spirit life in jeopardy for another (the new creation) . Christ uses the phrase to “drink blood” used as a parable to indicate the pouring out of that kind of spirit life.This is seeing literal blood without the spirit has no life to offer..
The word Christian without any other meaning added means; a resident of the city of Christ called the new Jerusalem or Zion . She is prepared as His etenal bride made of up of sinful Jews who have all there sin attoned for as well as Gentiles.
God puts no deference between the two purifying both by a work of His faith also called a labor of love..
The word virgin caries more than one way, it is used . It has its spiritual unseen connection (faith principle)
The whole church as a new creation male and female , Jew and gentile are considered the chaste virgin bride of Christ.
She is pictured in Revelation by a nunmber no man could count (144,000)used to represent all the saints, new as well as the Old testment saints One bride, one church, one gospel, one work of faith (Christ's) .
. And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty
and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred
and forty
and four thousand, which were
redeemed from the earth.These are they which were not defiled with women; for
they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men,
being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. Rev 14:1
These are they which were not defiled with the strange woman ; for they are virgins(Christians) .They have not fornificated with other gods in the likeness of men. They remain faithful to Christ, their husband....not making the first commandment without effect by having other gods in a intimate relationship before our husband, Christ.