A Christian is not somebody who
follows the ethical and moral structures of Jesus, because a person can
do this and still deny that Jesus Christ is the eternal God in the
living form. It’s done all the time. There are people all over the world
following morality and ethics very close to Christianity who are not
Christians. What we have to do is determine how to define words
“Christian”. For that we must to go to the scriptures.
A “Christian” in the New Testament
is somebody who believed that Jesus Christ was the Messiah of Israel and
the savior of the World; that He died on the cross in the place of our
sins; that His blood is atonement for our sins; that He rose bodily from
the grave and ascended to heaven; and that He will come again to judge
the living and the dead.
A great quote by Dr. Walter Martin,
“A Christian is not defined by the life lived, but the beliefs believed.
Therefore while a certain type of behaviour flows, from the Christian’s
beliefs it is not the behaviour but the beliefs themselves that define
what a Christian is.”
Source: Dr. Walter Martin, Martin Under Fire, Audio Tape #4
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