Did you mean to say , "seen as His bride"? Are you a member of the Temple of Jehovah? JW?
Christian (n., adj.)
1520s as a noun, "a believer in and follower of Christ;" 1550s as an adjective, "professing the Christian religion, received into the Christian church," 16c. forms replacing Middle English Cristen (adjective and noun), from Old English cristen, from a West Germanic borrowing of Church Latin christianus, from Ecclesiastical Greek christianos, from Christos (see Christ). First used in Antioch, according to Acts xi.25-26:
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.
Meaning "having the manner and spiritual character proper to a follower of Christ" is from 1590s (continuing a sense in the Middle English word). Christian name, that given at christening, is from 1540s (also continuing a sense from Middle English Cristen). Christian Science as the name of a religious sect is from 1863.
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No. not of those sects. I have a Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist foundation. "Heinz 57" And my home church of approx. 25years where I heard the gospel is called Plymouth Brethren . They have a great format for hearing the words of faith and the lord's supper a new testament ceremonial law.. . I occasionally visit and share bread with them .
I meant Christian as the word is defined with no other meanings added . Not what they do (follow Christ) but who they are. Christians as residents of the city of Christ named after her founder Christ. Prepared as His bride. The church.
Just like other words ending in "ian" used to represent residents of a city named after its founder.
Like the city as to its residents .The Thessalonians , named for his wife, Alexander's step-sister, Thessaloniki.
Or Galatian named after the founder of that city, Gaul."
Or the Nicolaitans named after the founder of that sect, Nicole.
The "new name" God in the Old testament promised to name His bride "Christian" .Previously called her Israel, the born again people of God. Christian a appropriate name for a bride represented as a city as to its residents .
You say God corrupted the whole world. What first moment? Did it arrive after the sixth day when God looked upon all He had created and judged it very good?
I would offer. The first work of corruption seems to be on day three .Day four the corruption time keeper was switched on winding down till the last day .The sun and the moon. The under the sun period of time.
Another work of corruption was after Adam and Eve were created . Killed by the letter of the law "death". . They lost the glow of being in the presence of the glory of God. His glory departed left then naked and ashamed.
Moses had to wear a mask when he came down from "mount Sinai" set aside as Holy. Mount Sinai a metaphor used to represent all the kingdoms of the world. The brilliance of the glory was blinding like looking into the Sun. . Most likely Zipporah kissed him with her eyes closed. LOL
Yes everything he made was good. When he made it. Good is described by the things not seen . When the Son of man, Jesus was accused of Good Master .He said one is the Good Master, God not seen. No man can serve the flesh and the Spirit of God that works in them .
That curse came when Cain murdered the first martyr as a apostle sent by God. Abel .It was more than faithless Cain could bear .As that which alone Christ and the father working together did bear. The holy Spirit marked Cain a beast made of the dust of the field using the number of man three times 666 to signify unbelief. The word metaphor three many time is used to denote the end of the matter. The mark of no faith of mankind separate from the Spirit of God. Cain like Esau anther first born should of bought the truth of the gospel seeing no value in the things not seen they simply disregarded the unseen nature of salvation. . You must be born again from above.
The first movement of seeing pride in the heart of the father of lies. The wrath began being reveled .A suffering creation waiting to die because of the curse of the letter of the law.
Where in the scripture does it say, God corrupted the whole world, a living curse?
The whole earth the heavens already under the Sun
And
now art thou
cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy
brother's blood from thy hand;When thou tillest the ground,
it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the
Lord, My punishment is
greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day
from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord
set a mark upon Cain, (666) lest any finding him should kill him.
Genesis 4: 11-15
A punishment that only the father and Son working together as one Good God can bear. The work of one faith or labor of Love. .
His brother Abel's blood crying out from the heart of the corrupted earth as place of suffering. Longing to be clothed with a new incoruptible body on the last day, our living hope.