Who is a real Christian?

[Rhizomorph13]

I don't know.

[Fake Messiah]

You know that Isaac Newtown also wasn't a real Christian because he rejected the Trinity and add to that his views about Jesus and holy ghost, make him by today's standards almost a jehovah's witness, and we all know that jehovah's witnesses are not real Christians.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Remember, no acid has a pH as high as dihydrogen monoxide.

[runewell]

If a “real Christian” is just someone who self identifies as a Christian, that is a extremely low bar. Jesus himself said not everyone who cries Lord Lord will enter heaven, but rather those who do the will of the Father. I imagne there a lot of name-only Christians who have no real connection to God at all.

[Sal]

That's the problem, ain't it?

[The Grand Nudger]

Do you also take the time to imagine that you might be one of them? All of you know that verse, you seem to be convinced that it's referring to someone else, though. It's def one of my favorites, because it's got a good message and the point stands even though there is no god and no jesus ever existed to come back. It's still true that there are christians who don't seem to know christ - and whom christ does not seem to know. Sadly, and at least in the us, it's become the majority of christians. Christianity, as a movement, has left christ behind for free market eib jesus.

OTOH, if those people believe in christ, that does make them christians, even though they're bad christians - which is thoroughly redundant. Just another place where the message of the character of christ is at odds with the religion of christ.

[runewell]

Christianity, as a movement, has left christ behind for free market eib jesus.

OTOH, if those people believe in christ, that does make them christians, even though they're bad christians - which is thoroughly redundant. Just another place where the message of the character of christ is at odds with the religion of christ.

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. (James 2:19).    By your reasoning (I'm not criticizing you here, merely continuing the thought) demons would qualify as bad christians.

[The Grand Nudger]

Me? No, I know that there are thousands.

Yeah, though, ofc demons could qualify as bad christians. If they believed in christ - because that's the one thing and the only thing that determines whether someone is christian. Being privileged as supernatural agents, they might find it easier to believe than we do, if belief is applicable.

Mark Twain had thoughts on something like this.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

[runewell]

Mark Twain had thoughts on something like this.  

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

If Mark Twain had half a brain he would read Revelations and conclude that prayers for Satan would be wasted breath.

[The Grand Nudger]

So are prayers for humans, but we do it anyway.

Is that what you get from that, though, that mark twain had a deficient intellect...? I mean, not everyone is a fan, but you don't generally hear people question the guys wit. I would have suggested his War Prayer, too, but that's probably out, lol. It's a fun question, can demons be christians..and at the end of the day I could only say that I can't imagine why not, judging by christians. None of the stereotypically human vices that we use demons to contextualize and express prevent christians from being christians.