WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN ?

Before you read this, the question must be asked: Do you want the truth or not ?

There are several viewpoints on what it means to be a Christian.

1. There is the unbiblical viewpoint which is held by most people.

2. There is the biblical viewpoint.

The two are very different.

1. In the opinion of many, a Christian is a person that attends a Christian church. This can often include cults. If a person is a Roman Catholic, Protestant, or some other denomination that preaches Christ, they consider themselves as Christian and others may think of them likewise.

If a person is a Moslem, or Hindu or of some other religion and transfer over to a Christian church, they are usually called a Christian.

It is quite common for a person, when asked what faith they are, to reply, “I am a Christian.”

They say this only because they go to a church that preaches about Jesus Christ and at least a little something from the Bible.

They have no idea what it truly means to be a real born-again Christian.

The term born-again has become so distorted that the biblical meaning is only understood by a few.

People commit hideous crimes and say that they are born-again.

Many mentally deranged people in this generation claim that they are born-again.

They claim that God told them to do this or that. In the name of God they do unbelievably evil things.

Others that claim they are a Christian or born-again commit suicide, sometimes in mass numbers. God forbid.

Still others who claim to be Christian or born-again, commit adultery, engage in homosexuality, use illegal drugs, or other ungodly acts which often become public, in vain they imagine that their position places them above the restraints placed on the truly blood bought.

Some declare prophecies publicly that are clearly wrong.

Many Christian churches are now teaching doctrines that are far from biblical truth.

The doctrines of great prosperity, worldly psychology, worldly pleasures, gambling, laughing, touching certain objects to receive healing, candlelight meditation, maze searches, pay per miracles, and many other false doctrines are being taught from the pulpits and the airways.

In exchange for these false teachings is the loss of the truth of the fear of God, Gods wrath, Gods judgment, repentance, obeying scripture, the Revelation, Bible prophecy, and the pre-tribulation Rapture all of which are seldom taught in most churches anymore.

It is no wonder that the general unsaved public has such a very low opinion of those claiming to be born-again.

Often those so called Christians will flippantly refer to God as the man up there, the Man upstairs, or some other equally irreverent term.

Even at a funeral, you will rarely ever hear the minister state that this particular person is now in hell.

The will say instead that this person is in heaven or is in a better place.

The fact is that the word of truth the Bible tells us that there are only a few that will inherit eternal life. Matthew 7:14

Isaiah 54:1 “ For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.”

Galatians 4:27 “For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.”

Both of the above scriptures refer to the fact that more of humanity is born of the devil than are re-born in Jesus.

So then, you ask “What is a real Christian ?”

The word Christian or Christians is only mentioned on three occasion in the Bible.

In the Acts of the early church ch 26:28, in 1 Peter 4:16 and in Acts 11:26

The words used several times, saint, disciple and Christian are synonymous.

It could be said that to understand what a Christian is according to Holy Scripture and therefore in the eyes of God, certain words and phrases need to be understood.

Search for yourself the true meaning of the words and phrases that follow

Born-again

Come to Jesus Christ and Him alone by faith alone

The Christ that a person comes to must be the Christ as revealed in the Bible and not another Christ,

Christ is Deity , He is God, He is the middle person of the Godhead- He is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Conversion must be to Christ and not to a church or denominational teaching along with a childlike attitude toward correction from Gods Word.

Disciple

Doer of the Word

Evidence of the fruit of the Spirit must be noticeable (Christlike attitude)

Grace

Humility,,,, which requires repentance from pride

Jesus Christ is Gods only begotten Son, born of a virgin, died on Calvary, rose up from the dead, ascended up to heaven and now is seated on the right hand of Gods the Father in heaven, making intercession for the saints

Obedience to God Word

Obey the commandments of God

Personal relationship

Repentance

Only after repenting and coming to Christ by faith in Christ alone as their only hope of salvation is the person under the command to be water baptized by full immersion in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

When a person is truly born-again the Holy Spirit lives inside that person

Many more words and phrases could be used, but these will suffice for now.

END OF PART ONE

WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN ?