Do You Identify Yourself as a Christian?
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Heres a thing or two ive learned some yrs back.
I dont identify myself as a christian anymore, why?. Ive learned that it tends to seperate and distance people from being real. In fact it seems to close many doors of opportunity to share the gospel. People seem to be put on guard for 2 reasons. One they wait till you have a weak moment and then tell you and remind you of it. Or they put on some I'm spiritual too act and pretend to be a GOD fearer too.
Intresting enough jesus made him self of no reputation. In fact he was more interested in who they siad he was.
Thats the example i follow.
I'm a sinner saved by grace just like many here. I prefer to acknowledge other believer as saints.
The title christian opens up a whole can of worms. Baptist, catholic, protestant, mormon, J.W the list goes on.
Many believe that knowing JESUS is salvation which is true to a point. The real question is does JESUS know you?
I dont identify myself as a christian anymore, why?. Ive learned that it tends to seperate and distance people from being real. In fact it seems to close many doors of opportunity to share the gospel. People seem to be put on guard for 2 reasons. One they wait till you have a weak moment and then tell you and remind you of it. Or they put on some I'm spiritual too act and pretend to be a GOD fearer too.
Intresting enough jesus made him self of no reputation. In fact he was more interested in who they siad he was.
Thats the example i follow.
I'm a sinner saved by grace just like many here. I prefer to acknowledge other believer as saints.
The title christian opens up a whole can of worms. Baptist, catholic, protestant, mormon, J.W the list goes on.
Many believe that knowing JESUS is salvation which is true to a point. The real question is does JESUS know you?
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1.) "If Christians didn't find these Christian issues important, they wouldn't have joined ChristianChat."
That is irrational and nonsensical.
You're claiming that if other Christians aren't deeply concerned about the exact same, small, narrow, and peculiar range of topics you're using to interrogate people... then they wouldn't be here.
That is just absurd.
That doesn't sound like something a Christian would say.
2.) "I am also very interested in these Christian issues."
Yes, you're interested in a very peculiar, theologically impotent, and narrow range of Christian issues...
issues which have more to do with demographic data than with theology.
To clarify,: you tend to raise a general area of thought, a topic, which Christians are concerned about... but then you ask a VERY SPECIFIC QUESTION, and that odd and specific question is something genuine Christians have little interest in.
These aren't the kinds of questions most Christians generally talk about.
3.) You never answered my question, you merely redirected the subject to AVOID my question.
This is not the way Christians generally chat. Rather, this is the kind of thing normally done by someone skilled in rhetoric and debate, or someone skilled in psychology.
* For clarity, I'll ask again: Are you here doing research for a class, or is gathering this data merely your job?
Avoiding honest, straightforward questions, is not something genuine Christians tend to do.
4. Conclusion:
a.) You're a new member, you do little but post odd polls, asking odd questions, about things Christians aren't that concerned about... questions that have more to do with demographic divisions than theology.
b.) Then you act dismissive and even irritated when people don't answer your questions exactly as you'd like.
c.) There is nothing normative, or Christian, about any of your behavior.
d.) I'm sure everyone would like to know what you're actually doing here.
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Oyster still loves you, RaceRunner. 
Ever notice how the writers of the New Testament letters never once use "Christian" in their salutation (beginning greeting)? There's good evidence that the believers did not call themselves "Christians" but that "Christian" was what others called them. This would have been consistent with the Roman Empire's tradition of calling followers after the names of their leaders/teachers. Rome co-opted the term "Christian" to suit their own purposes. It made the label for those in the House of God very Roman-sounding.
I prefer to call myself and others believers "believers", "saints", "brothers", "the church", "sisters", "sons of God" and any other word used in the NT salutations.
I prefer to call myself and others believers "believers", "saints", "brothers", "the church", "sisters", "sons of God" and any other word used in the NT salutations.
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I encourage you to change the tense on your statement. You WERE a sinner saved by grace, but you are now a new creation that has thrown off the shackles of being a slave to sin and you are now a slave to righteousness. By saying "I am" you are still inadvertently identifying with what you were before, but you are no longer that person. You may still struggle with sin, as do we all, but you are no longer a sinner, you have been made righteous by Christ and to continue to call yourself a sinner only lessens the glory and miracle of what God did to redeem you and make you a child of God.
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