If "Christ" means "anointed" or "anointed one," then I guess the question would be "when was Jesus anointed?" Because that is when he became the Christ. At what point does he become Christian? Jesus wasn't a follower of the Christ, he was the Christ. When did he establish the actual religion? Was it at that moment when he rose from the water and merged with a spirit pigeon?
If a Christian is a follower of Christ, then would his followers have been Christians the moment that they joined him? The gospels indicate that they didn't quite understand who or what he was at least some of the time, which makes you wonder why they dropped everything and followed him in the first place. So it's difficult to say at which point they went from Jewish to Christian, since I would assume it has to be a conscious choice.
If a Christian is a follower of Christ, then would his followers have been Christians the moment that they joined him? The gospels indicate that they didn't quite understand who or what he was at least some of the time, which makes you wonder why they dropped everything and followed him in the first place. So it's difficult to say at which point they went from Jewish to Christian, since I would assume it has to be a conscious choice.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
