Acts 11: 26, And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called CHRISTIANS first in Antioch.
Why the Apostles were called Christians;
1. They were in Christ Jesus
2. The life of Christ was seen in them
3. They all were behaving like Christ
4. They were all dead to the flesh
5. They had a fellowship with God through Christ
So Christianity is the full manifestation of Christ life here on earth. Christianity is living on earth with God’s tradition. Christianity is the true way of life. Christianity is the manifestation of the new man/creature in Christ.
With all this in mind one can simply say that a Christian is anyone who is genuinely in Christ Jesus. A Christian is the new man/creature in Christ Jesus. A Christian is not a sinner and a sinner is not a Christian.
1John 3: 6-11 says, 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN ?
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