What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?

[Mister Agenda]

I don't have a problem with people sincerely living their faith without stepping on other people's equal rights. It's the ones who spend their time trying to convince people that their faith is justified by evidence and reason who get irritating. If it were justified by evidence and reason, it wouldn't take faith to believe it, it would be like accepting that the earth is roughly an oblate spheroid or that many diseases are caused by single-celled pathogenic organisms. Clearly, that's not what it's like at all. It's a deeply personal conviction that can't be shaken by mere arguments, because when it is, it stops being faith. Many believers own that and take pride in it. Some apparently feel a need to get people skeptical that the object of their faith is really real to acknowledge that the thing they believe in is true for non-faith based reasons.

Nothing corroded my remaining faith like apologetics. It's great for reassuring the faithful that they're smart to believe, but for a doubter who is paying enough attention to actually scrutinize the arguments, it starts to become clear that they are uniformly weak. I must have examined hundreds of arguments without finding a single good one. My faith was never based on arguments in the first place, and I doubt that anyone's is. To an apologist, argumentation is tactical, they aren't trying to arrive at the truth, they are propping up their faith, and many of them are happy to use arguments with flaws they have been made aware of on a new audience if they think they might fall for it.