Is God a Christian?
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I'm on drugs, but you all believe that the Father was a Christian from everlasting to everlasting? Was Elijah a Christian or Enoch?
I am no troll. I just want someone who really wants to learn of God that in this earth we are defined by man made labels. What a Christian was in the bible is not what is portrayed today, and that it is more tolerable for people here to put up with a person starting a thread for AND against say a trinity, than when one comes with the simple truth and honest down to earth questions.
I am no troll. I just want someone who really wants to learn of God that in this earth we are defined by man made labels. What a Christian was in the bible is not what is portrayed today, and that it is more tolerable for people here to put up with a person starting a thread for AND against say a trinity, than when one comes with the simple truth and honest down to earth questions.
Matthew 24:22 “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Matthew 24:24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
How does the Aramaic Peshitta compare? Whether Christian or Chrestian, they would only appear as transliterated loan words in an Aramaic text. There are no definite rules about transliterating Greek words into Aramaic letters. Quite often the Greek vowels are not represented. Because there is no corresponding letter or sound for the Greek letter H,e (eta) in Hebrew or Aramaic, the vowel is not represented by a character. However י (yud) can represent the Greek I,i (iota), but it is often dropped. In the Peshitta the I,i (iota) in CHRESTIAN is represented by the letter י (yud). So one has to wonder, since the word is supposed to be CHRISTIAN, why the first I,i (iota) is not represented. If the word was pronounced KRESTIANA, then because there is no consonant for H,e (eta) in Aramaic, we would not expect to see any letter between the ס and ר. This is how the word in question is written in the Aramaic Peshitta and it suggests that the Greek source word was Chrestian and not Christian. Christian - What's in a Name?
Matthew 24:24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
How does the Aramaic Peshitta compare? Whether Christian or Chrestian, they would only appear as transliterated loan words in an Aramaic text. There are no definite rules about transliterating Greek words into Aramaic letters. Quite often the Greek vowels are not represented. Because there is no corresponding letter or sound for the Greek letter H,e (eta) in Hebrew or Aramaic, the vowel is not represented by a character. However י (yud) can represent the Greek I,i (iota), but it is often dropped. In the Peshitta the I,i (iota) in CHRESTIAN is represented by the letter י (yud). So one has to wonder, since the word is supposed to be CHRISTIAN, why the first I,i (iota) is not represented. If the word was pronounced KRESTIANA, then because there is no consonant for H,e (eta) in Aramaic, we would not expect to see any letter between the ס and ר. This is how the word in question is written in the Aramaic Peshitta and it suggests that the Greek source word was Chrestian and not Christian. Christian - What's in a Name?
The bible says that MANY that call Jesus Lord, He will tell them He never knew. Who can these be but the Christians of today who recognize Him as Lord?
Muslims don't. Buddhists don't. Jews don't. I'm just being honest. If not them then who?
I am a Christian. A biblical Christian in that I only know one God! And He made all the people we would condemn only because of an adjective.
Muslims don't. Buddhists don't. Jews don't. I'm just being honest. If not them then who?
I am a Christian. A biblical Christian in that I only know one God! And He made all the people we would condemn only because of an adjective.
R
Yeah... I think you guys should be a little nicer... Don't assume that everyone is as knowledgeable as you are... Be Humble and answer questions in a way that is out of love and would glorify God...
My sense, and I could be wrong, is that FlamingSpirit has a genuine curiosity with this question... As simple as it may seem to you guys, maybe not so much to him.
You can bash me later if I'm wrong.
Still love you guys though!
My sense, and I could be wrong, is that FlamingSpirit has a genuine curiosity with this question... As simple as it may seem to you guys, maybe not so much to him.
You can bash me later if I'm wrong.
Still love you guys though!
Yeah... I think you guys should be a little nicer... Don't assume that everyone is as knowledgeable as you are... Be Humble and answer questions in a way that is out of love and would glorify God...
My sense, and I could be wrong, is that FlamingSpirit has a genuine curiosity with this question... As simple as it may seem to you guys, maybe not so much to him.
You can bash me later if I'm wrong.
Still love you guys though!
My sense, and I could be wrong, is that FlamingSpirit has a genuine curiosity with this question... As simple as it may seem to you guys, maybe not so much to him.
You can bash me later if I'm wrong.
Still love you guys though!
I just want people to think, examine an evaluate their own lives, and learn how too place themselves in any mans shoes to try to understand what could drive people to be what they are, or to do the things they do.
No child is born evil. You believe in you bible, then believe what's in it. We must learn to love one another and carry each others burdens, or we too will perish.
No child is born evil. You believe in you bible, then believe what's in it. We must learn to love one another and carry each others burdens, or we too will perish.
Look hun,
I don't criticise you for what you wrote... but you ask something that can not be answered. In fact, I wouldn't even ask it...
think about it...
Christ is not a religion, he is nothing of the sort. We are the branch...
So It would be like asking is my brother my dad?
haha bad example maybe?? I cant even think of one lol
Christening is a ceremony associated with:
- Baptism
- Infant baptism
- Ship naming and launching
- Anointing (The title Christ is derived from the Greek term Χριστός (Khristós) meaning "the anointed one") Christening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Did not David say, In sin I was conceived and I sin I came from my mothers womb?
None good, no not one
Heart a little left of center..(LEFT)
Not a just man on the earth that does good and sins not
ALL men liars
That which is born of flesh is flesh
Not sure where you get no child born evil, maybe innocent, but in evil, fallen sinful flesh with no need to be taught how to lie, be mean, cheat, steal etc......
None good, no not one
Heart a little left of center..(LEFT)
Not a just man on the earth that does good and sins not
ALL men liars
That which is born of flesh is flesh
Not sure where you get no child born evil, maybe innocent, but in evil, fallen sinful flesh with no need to be taught how to lie, be mean, cheat, steal etc......
R
Well, does it really matter if God is christian?
I think more importantly is that God is the whole purpose that Christianity came to being. God is at the core of true Christianity and that is what really matters.
I get where you are coming from Ella. And you are right Ella, Christ is not a religion... Christ is all about a God who loved us and did what he had to in order to have a loving relationship with us. It is the most beautiful love story ever written.
I think more importantly is that God is the whole purpose that Christianity came to being. God is at the core of true Christianity and that is what really matters.
I get where you are coming from Ella.
And you are right Ella, Christ is not a religion... Christ is all about a God who loved us and did what he had to in order to have a loving relationship with us. It is the most beautiful love story ever written.
A
Questions are the proper format for people to use who are seeking information.
The correct answer would depend on the definition you use for the word 'Christian.'
The term ‘‘Christian’’ appears but three times in the New Testament and according to Acts 11.26, ‘‘it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called ‘Christians.’’’
The Greek word Christian is a composite of the Greek title and the Hellenized Latin suffix which literally means 'belonging to Christ.
So if you're being literal, then you are asking if God belongs to Himself.
That is, unless you're after something else... perhaps trying to extrapolate that God belongs to everyone or something along those lines? I don't know. You'll have to clearly communicate whatever it is you're driving at as it isn't not really clear from your initial post and I'm not interested in guessing what your intent is.
The correct answer would depend on the definition you use for the word 'Christian.'
The term ‘‘Christian’’ appears but three times in the New Testament and according to Acts 11.26, ‘‘it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called ‘Christians.’’’
The Greek word Christian is a composite of the Greek title and the Hellenized Latin suffix which literally means 'belonging to Christ.
So if you're being literal, then you are asking if God belongs to Himself.
That is, unless you're after something else... perhaps trying to extrapolate that God belongs to everyone or something along those lines? I don't know. You'll have to clearly communicate whatever it is you're driving at as it isn't not really clear from your initial post and I'm not interested in guessing what your intent is.
This is true. We were born in sin.
Romans 9
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth
What must change however is our understanding of it.
Children are not born racists or murderers. They know neither good nor evil. It must be therefore taught by those who came before.
Romans 9
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth
What must change however is our understanding of it.
Children are not born racists or murderers. They know neither good nor evil. It must be therefore taught by those who came before.