what is a Christian

To me, the question was not well structured. It should be "Who is a Christian?" or " What is Christianity?"

Really???? If I had said "Who is a Christian" many would just say "Me". The same with "What is Christianity", sensible answers would be it is a creed followed by a vast number of people. End of discussion.

But thank you for your pedagogic perusal.

Now, what is a Christian? What does a person have to do to be a Christian? Is being a Christian like being an Australian, Canadian or Greek, for example? Is being a Christian just a name or is it a way of life?

There you go, tear those questions apart!!!!!

I am starting to think this should be in the Bible Discussion Forum. Thanks. God bless.

All those things, but an explanation that is beyond argument is this:

A Christian is a human person who studies God's Word in the Holy Bible, any Bible of the Christian writings, they then get to know God's laws and principles, they get to know the difference between Jehovah and Jesus and they apply these laws and principles to their daily life. Being a Christian is a way of life, it is not just a twice a year event.

Once this person knows God they will love him, and Almighty God will know them and love them in return. A Christian in the making would dedicate himself to Jehovah and be baptized in water by being immersed in that water, and not as a completely non-understanding baby having a splash of water on its head, but as a adult thinking human person that has made a conscious decision of their knowledge of God and His laws and principles, and would be asking for a clear conscious.

Jehovah never had to be baptized, but Jesus did, the Holy Spirit or God's Active Force never needed baptism, showing that all of these three identities and powers were three and not one in a trinity.

Once you know the laws and principles of God Almighty, laws and Principles that Jesus referred to and obeyed himself, you should then go forth to all the nations of the world teaching them these Laws and Principles and baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son and in Holy Spirit.

Easy, Hey???!!!! No it is not easy, just ask me how hard it can be at times. Satan is walking about there earth consuming as many as he can in order to show his supremacy in his original boast to Almighty God.

Christianity to me is having a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ!

To put it simply

A bit too simply, I mean, what sort of a relationship. Jesus is not on earth for one to meet for a coffee down at the Mall, I don't think.

I believe that Jesus prefers the coffee at Dunkin' Donuts and is partial to the Munchkins. America runs on Dunkin'.

Yes we can talk to God whenever and whatever situation despite not physically seeing Him.

OH! I thought you were talking about Jesus, no one can see God, He is an invisible Spirit. You need to work out just who it is you are having that relationship with, it might be with Satan, he is very tricky and can fool a lot of humans, and does.

Satan will tell you things you wish to hear, he shows himself as the angel of light but is the angel of darkness. Satan is the originator of the lie and has perfected this habit to fool the nations of the world. Satan is the king of the world but thankfully will go down with that world when Jehovah takes his revenge on the evil one. We must choose sides now of go down with the rest of the wicked system of things.

Come on bronson, this is the second time you've said, "No one has seen God." Before you said no human being has heard God the Father's voice and I called you on it but you did not respond. The following is what I wrote so please address it.

"Actually bronson, that's not entirely true. God spoke audibly to humans at Exodus 20:22, Exodus 3:4 and at Deuteronomy 5:24 and vs26 which references God speaking audibly to humans at Exodus 3:4. Furthermore, God appeared physcially at Genesis 17:1,2 as well as other places."

This tells me bronson that you don't know your Bible and your saying sassyservant might be fooled by Satan? So bronson, who appeared physcially to Abraham at Genesis 17:1,2?

IN GOD THE SON,
bluto

Just not Starbucks lol.

In three instances in the Bible record, Jehovah is reported as speaking audibly to humans. These are: (1) At the time of Jesus’ baptism (29 C.E.), when Jehovah said: “This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved.” Both Jesus and John the Baptizer undoubtedly heard this voice. (Mt 3:17; Mr 1:11; Lu 3:22) (2) At Jesus’ transfiguration (32 C.E.), with the apostles Peter, James, and John present, when virtually the same words were uttered. (Mt 17:5; Mr 9:7; Lu 9:35) (3) In 33 C.E., shortly before Jesus’ last Passover, when, responding to Jesus’ request that God glorify his name, a voice from heaven said: “I both glorified it and will glorify it again.” The crowd thought that it had thundered or that an angel had spoken to Jesus.—Joh 12:28, 29.

God is an invisible spirit being and has never been seen by humans

Happy now??????

Hi Bronson, I would appreciate you asking me questions on what I believe, I am on the Journey to enter into rest in God.
the best meaning that I know of Christian Is Christ I Am Nothing and the meaning is without Love I am nothing.
Also I Am is one of God's name. He told us to Go in His Name Referring to identity in Christ. I Am refers to Now God is, and now is the accepted time of salvation. I have updated the study a little and will post it again in poems and poetry here. There is a new part I'm working on not included.

Nice question.
A Christian is simply a follower of Christ or rather someone who follows the steps of Jesus!

I don't think the answer is quite as complicated as you're trying to make it, and you are trying to figure it out completely on your own and "on paper". First thing I'll do is answer the original question based one my understanding up to this point.

What is a Christian? A Christian is a person who has been reconciled to God through Jesus work on the cross. It is a very real, personal, and supernatural act (event) that fills us with His Spirit as we were created to be. It takes the missing aspect of what we need to be complete and makes us whole. This is not something one of us can answer for you, this is something only God can give you any kind of certainty on. We can sit here and debate all day long on the number of denominations, the age of the earth, or why a God would allow the world to be so bad if He's so powerful, but ultimately only God can convince you. The good thing is you are asking the right question, and in my opinion one that is not asked nearly enough even in church houses.

I was not raised a Christian, nor was I convinced to join by some smooth talking preacher. I also didn't come to truth by seeking it out and asking questions like you are now. God pulled me in and opened my eyes to truth through the hardest trial of my life, honestly the only kind of thing that could snap me out of the mental prison and chains this world puts us in through sin. I didn't believe in the bible, nor was I in anyway interested in learning about it. Even after a couple years of calling myself a Christian (before my incident I liked the "idea" of Jesus and joined the social club and philosophy I thought Christianity was) I had no interest at all in actually learning anything about it. I was very much a "Christian by name" as you asked here. I understand how you see it like that, I know because that's the way we are raised from birth to see the world from every outlet.

The catch 22 with my description is that anyone can just chop my testimony up to "personal experiences" and write it off if they want to. The thing is that the people closest to me, the ones that saw me go through my motorcycle wreak that took the function from my right arm, the ones that were there and saw how that completely broke me. They saw me every day and saw my spirit crushed, they saw me with my head down, they heard me when I could talk about nothing else but how much I hated not having the use of my arm. They wanted to help but could do nothing, and I knew this was a problem I couldn't fix as well. I couldn't, science couldn't, heck even what I thought God was and my false view of Christianity couldn't, I was stuck in this cold, merciless, uncaring, and dead world stuck with no hope.

One of the most amazing things about my conversion, to me anyway, is at the time it happen I wasn't even sure I wanted to believe in God anymore, if I ever truly had anyway. I just knew I wanted to die, I couldn't help myself, and I had enough, that was it. I hit my knees one day, Sept.28, 2013, and didn't cry out to God or Jesus, all I said was "I can't do this anymore, I can't do this anymore, I can't do this anymore, World you win, I loss and I quit." That was it. The next day I woke up new (on Sept.29, 2013), it took me until lunch to realize I hadn't thought about killing myself all day. This was something that went through my head at least every five minutes everyday for 2 solid years, and I couldn't help it at all, I didn't want to think about this but had no control over the thoughts filling my head. I had no clue what happen, but I knew 2 things, first I knew it was from God, second I KNEW Jesus was His son. I'm not sure how to describe exactly how or why I knew these things, but I knew them. Now back to the people around me, they saw this too. They saw me go from my depressed, broken, self pitying state to having new LIFE , they saw the power of God and what it did to me. It honestly blew my mind, I dragged my jaw around for a couple months upon realizing "it's all real? It's all real!!"

I made this long enough and am more than willing to converse and/or answer question, anything like that, also there is a lot more detail and things that I left out, but that's the best way I could think to answer what a Christian is. Thanks for asking too.

.[/QUOTE] 1st Peter 4:16 Acts 11:26 Acts 26:28 A Christian is a person Adherent of Christ,Committed to Christ,Follower of Christ.Believers were first called Christians in Antioch,because of their behavior,speech,activity was just like Christ. This should answer your question. Jeshuvan.

No bronson, I am not happy now because you still did "NOT" address what I posted. You gave me the same original answer that I responded to in the first place. I gave you Biblical proof that God spoke audible to humans in the Old Testament. So why did you not address these verses?

Secondly I specifically ask you (since you said God is invisible) who appeared physically to Abram at Genesis 17:1,2? In short, quit dodging the questions?

IN GOD THE SON,
bluto

I will ask you, do you believe in the trinity? Do you take part in the pagan festivals of Xmas and Easter? Do yo pray to the Almighty God Jehovah through his only begotten s on Jesus Christ?

It is not my bag to tell you what to do, you can sort that out yourself...Find your own salvation.

I do find the questions boring and purposely antagonistic. God, Jehovah, often used powerful angels to speak to humans.