What is a Christian?

A Christian is someone who understands that everyone sins, that God is perfect, and that only Jesus can reconcile us to God. Jesus, the man born around 3 BC and who taught around the Israel countryside, is God and the Son of God. God sent Him to earth to die for the sins of the world

1 John 5:2

2 We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his commandments.

Because Jesus is sinless, God accepted His sacrifice and raised Him from the dead. That sacrifice is the only thing that can reconcile us to God.

Nothing we can do will ever earn us salvation.……These are the basics, but the word “Christian” means much more. It comes from a Greek word meaning “little Christ.” Specifically, it means people who choose to believe in and obey Jesus’ teachings, and who strive to live as He did. Living like Christ does not save us, but it does have two very important purposes. The first is so others can identify those who trust Jesus for their salvation 1 John 5:2

The second is that Jesus’ actions show us the appropriate way to respond to God’s blessing of salvation

John 14:23-24

23 Jesus replied, "All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. 24 Anyone who doesn't love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me.

John 15:9-11

9 "I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father's commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!

Literally, to be a Christian is to interact with God and others like Jesus did.……The modern usage of the word “Christian” does not typically include the original definition. Today, it means someone who trusts Jesus for their salvation. But the word is also used in ways that are completely inaccurate:……– A Christian is not someone who belongs to a cult that mentions Jesus but does not follow the truths in the Bible ├ö├ç├┤

Galatians 1:8

8 Let God's curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you.…

– A Christian is not someone who was born and raised in a Western nation ├ö├ç├┤Galatians 3:28

28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile,[a] slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.…

– A Christian is not someone whose parents were believers and who went to church as a child ├ö├ç├┤

Romans 9:6-18….6 Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to Israel? No, for not all who are born into the nation of Israel are truly members of God's people! 7 Being descendants of Abraham doesn't make them truly Abraham's children. For the Scriptures say, "Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted,"[a] though Abraham had other children, too. 8 This means that Abraham's physical descendants are not necessarily children of God. Only the children of the promise are considered to be Abraham's children. 9 For God had promised, "I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."[]

10 This son was our ancestor Isaac. When he married Rebekah, she gave birth to twins.[c]11 But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message shows that God chooses people according to his own purposes; 12 he calls people, but not according to their good or bad works.) She was told, "Your older son will serve your younger son."[d] 13 In the words of the Scriptures, "I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau."[e]

14 Are we saying, then, that God was unfair? Of course not! 15 For God said to Moses,…"I will show mercy to anyone I choose,… and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."[f]…16 So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it.…17 For the Scriptures say that God told Pharaoh, "I have appointed you for the very purpose of displaying my power in you and to spread my fame throughout the earth."[g] 18 So you see, God chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen.

– A Christian is not someone who once said a prayer and then rejected God for the rest of his life ├ö├ç├┤… Jude 1:18-19…18 They told you that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to satisfy their ungodly desires. 19 These people are the ones who are creating divisions among you. They follow their natural instincts because they do not have God's Spirit in them.

– A Christian is not someone who thinks Jesus was a good man and did good things, but does not believe that Jesus is God and the Son of God ├ö├ç├┤.…Matthew 19:17

17 "Why ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. But to answer your question-if you want to receive eternal life, keep[a] the commandments."…

– A Christian is not someone who believes they must complete certain duties to be saved ├ö├ç├┤

Ephesians 2:8-9

8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it..……– A Christian is not someone who does good deeds ├ö├ç├┤Romans 3:23;6:23.…Romans 3:23

23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.…Romans 6:23

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.…

What is a Christian? …Culturally, it is someone who relies on Jesus alone for his or her salvation. Originally, it meant someone who strives to be like Jesus.

Ultimately it means both.

Being a Christian literally means to believe and follow Jesus Christ.

Nothing more and nothing less.……