What Is A True Christian?

By Opur Hymers


When you hear the word Christian, what comes to your mind? Maybe that image of church-goers or those who carry with them the cross chanting the prayers of God. Or maybe the name of someone you know. Whatever you cook up in your mind, it's clear: Christians are the followers of Jesus Christ (hence why it has Christ in its name). But the label of Christian doesn't make you necessarily a Christian right away. There are things that can signify you are. So then, what is a true Christian? What are marks of that?

Everything about Christianity revolves around Christ; from his birth to his death, from his miracles to his powers and so on and so forth. They have established something known as "Creeds" which are doctrinal confessions and main writings followed by Christians. The creed most followed in the present is the Apostle's Creed which is also used by Catholics. It establishes everything about Jesus such as "being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary".

The Christian worships God according to how it was written. He doesn't do it in any other way; the way God said it should be done should be done that way. This shows that the true Christian is loyal and respectful of the Lord's intentions. Whatever happens to him in life: whether an unfortunate event occurred or a successful event was brought upon, the true Christian has faith in the God and Jesus. He believes it was meant to happen and as such believes that everything happens for a reason. A true Christian strives for a sin-free life. While this is hard to do, the true Christian will do his best to go for a sin-free life but not in a way that it will displease the Lord. He wants to do it accordingly so it still follows the principles of the Bible.

Other religions have their own false prophets too like in Islam. A prophet is a false prophet if he comes after Muhammad because it has already been established Muhammad is the true and final prophet. In Judaism, someone is considered a false prophet if he makes too-good-to-be-true prophecies and turn you away from your faith with God and therefore must be punished to death for such rebellion.

So in a way, Christianity is quite different from other religions in the branch of Catholicism. As it stands, Christianity has a very big focus on everything about Jesus. It can be a bit hard to understand everything about it but if you take the time to listen and read, you'll see that Christianity and Catholic and all other religious branches are not that far from each other. They all still see God as a central part of their faith. So whatever religion you belong to, keep to your beliefs but show respect for others.




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