What do you call yourself?

Question

Here's the thing,

In today's society, Christians are equated to being 'good' and nice people, therefore - anyone who is a good person is a Christian.

I call myself a "Follower of Christ."
I do this for the reason that anyone can be a "Christian" by world views, but it takes more than that to be a follower of Christ.

What do you call yourself?

Answer 1

"anyone who is a good person is a Christian." I don't agree.

You are not a Christian unless you believe the teachings of Jesus Christ.
It even says that in the dictionary.


"...it takes more than (being good or nice) to be a follower of Christ."

You're right about that

Answer 2

Just being a "Good person" DOES NOT MAKE YOU A CHRISTIAN!! In the new testament Jesus said it is easier for a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. A true Christian is a person who professed his faith in Christ in public. Jesus said "If you do not aknowledge me in public I will not aknowledge you in front of my Father . Jesus died on the cross to take on all our sins and the worlds as well and if anyone whosoever believith in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Christians are not perfect. That is why Jesus died on the cross.All the worlds views DO NOT MATTER IF THESE STEPS AREN'T FOLLOWED Al you have to do is pray Dear Lord I know I am a sinner and I ask your forgiveness as I believe you are the Son of GOD

Answer 3

Uh, I don't know where you get your information, but I have never heard a christian being referred to as a good person, and so all good people are christians. Instead I've heard them referred to as blood sucking leeches, biggots, idiots, closed minded, hypocritical. So you tell me. Since when does a good person get classified as a christian? Oh, and just for the record, I call myself a Wiccan.

Answer 4

A Solitary Wiccan

Answer 5

Just because true Christians are " 'good' and nice people " doesn't mean that anyone who is good and nice is a Christian. But there are many people who are "good and nice", and believe that makes them Christians. But that is exactly what makes them NOT Christians.

I am a True Christian.

Answer 6

I am a Baha'i and I am so proud of it.

"To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood." - Abdu'l-Baha

"Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility." - Baha'u'llah

Answer 7

adoring ISLAM
that how can i call my self
and i am true follower of jessus us he is a muslim
A Muslim is some one who Submits Their Will to God. This Is What Jesus Did and Taught.



Son of God is a figure of speech which many other Prophets were labeled as for example; in the King James Version of the

Bible



(Psalms 2:7) David is the begotten Son of God.



Many others in the Bible are called God's son;



Jacob God's firstborn son (Exodus 4:22)

Solomon is God's son (2 Samuel 7:13-14)

Ephraim is God's firstborn son (Jeremiah 31:9)

Adam is the son of God (Luke 3:38)



Other Prophets were Labeled as Messiah for example {1 Samuel 15:17} Which in Hebrew means Anointed/Chosen/Prophet;



Solomon (1 Kings 1:39)

David (1 Samuel 16:13)

Jewish priests (Leviticus 4)



Other Prophets Preformed similar Miracles as Jesus ;



Ezekiel raised many from the dead (Ezekiel 37:1-9)

Joshua stopped the sun and moon for one whole day (Joshua 10:12-13)

Elisha raised the dead, resurrected himself, healed a leper, fed a hundred people with twenty barley loaves and a few ears of

corn, and healed a blind man: (2 Kings 4:35, 13:21, 5:14, 4:44, and 6:11.)

Elijah raised the dead (1 Kings 17:22 and 14.)



Other Prophets were filled with the Holy Ghost;



Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost (Luke 1:67)

Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost (Luke 1:41)

Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 4:8)

Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 13:9)



Many other Prophets were called Lord for example;



Abraham (Genesis 18:12)

Esau (Genesis 32:4)

Joseph (Genesis 44:20)

David (1 Samuel 25:24)



Jesus taught to rinse before Praying as Muslims do {John 13:10}



Jesus bowed down in Submission on the Ground to God as Muslims do {Matthew 26:39}



Jesus said, all of You who Submit your will to God, are my true Brothers and Sisters (Mark 3:31-35) as Muslims do



Jesus taught Salvation comes from Submitting your will to God and Faith as Muslims do .



(Matthew 7:21-23) "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the

will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in

your name drive out demons and perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you

evildoers!'"



In conclusion, Jesus was neither a Jew nor a Christian, Lets see where the name Jew comes from. {Gen 11:31} we see that

Abraham took his family out of his home land "Ur of the Chaldees"



Therefore, Abraham could not have been a Jew because that is a part of Iraq. He was more an Arab than a Jew. Secondly, the

name Jew came after the existence of Judah, the great-grandson of Abraham.



Abraham in the Bible is called "a Hebrew" {Genesis 14:13} which means a human from the other side of the Euphrates. It also

means pertaining to Eber a descendant of Shem, clearly not "a Jew".



The descendants of Jacob were called Israelites {Gen 32:28} consisting of twelve tribes. Judah was nicknamed "Jew" so that

only Judah's descendants were called Jews originally.



Moses, was from the tribe "Levite" {Exodus 6:16-20} therefore also not a Jew. The name Jew {according to the Bible} is not

a reflection of "an organized religion" as you put it, but a Tribe, a fore name, an ancestor branch off of a large family tree.



Jesus may have been a Jew by birth right, but a Muslim by Faith

Answer 8

I still call myself a Christian, it identifies me as a Christ believer.
Why are you having such a tough time being grouped with a bunch of 'nice people'?

You'd think you'd be happy to be associated with "nice" people who do "good things"

'....for he who is not against us is with us." you might want to remember those words hun.

Answer 9

Orthodox

Answer 10

Agnostic, but leaning towards Paganism