#1 wrote:

Define Christian. (please)

Mark responded:

Dictionary definition ………

n. 1.. One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. 2.. One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus. …

A follower or disciple of Jesus; someone who believes Jesus is the Christ or Messiah. The New Testament mentions that the followers of Jesus were first called Christians within a few years after his death. …

A follower of Jesus and his teachings.

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A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ. There are different interpretations of what exactly that entails, however. In any case, Christians by definition are a part of Christianity.

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As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation “Christ”, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. The first known usage of this term can be found in the New Testament of the Bible, in Acts 11:26. The term was first used to denote those known or perceived to be disciples of Christ.

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The term “Christian” is used by various groups with diverse beliefs to describe themselves.

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A small but significant minority of ecclesiastical groups are often referred to as Christian by non-Christians, whose creeds consider Jesus to be theologically significant but not God.

from //http://www.answers.com/topic/christian

NOTE:

1. I professes belief in Jesus as Christ / Messiah (but not as YHWH / God)

2. I follow the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus (in particular the two greatest commandments given by Jesus the Messiah which do not mention belief in Jesus at all.)

3. I attempt to live according to the teachings of Jesus (but I ain’t perfick like some of my Trew Kristyun Inquisitors)

4. I am follower or disciple of Jesus

therefore

I am a Christian … (although also an Exiled Believer)

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Which of the following are not “Trew Kristyuns” according to your definition?????

from http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=401iisj9g4e7g?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=List+of+Christians&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc05b

List of Christians

a.. Giacomo Aconcio, early advocate of religious toleration. b.. Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Christian c.. Babai the Great, leading figure in the Assyrian Church of the East d.. John Badby, a Lollard burned for heresy. e.. John Ball (priest), Lollard linked to Peasants’ Revolt f.. Hosea Ballou, (1771-1852), Universalist clergyman g.. Henry Ward Beecher, significant abolitionist h.. Wendy Beckett-Art historian and nun. i.. Aragaw Bedaso, (born 1934), folk singer and former deacon in Ethiopian Christianity j.. Bono, musician whose work occasionally is Christian themed. k.. Thomas Carlyle (Scottish lawyer)-Irvingite. l.. Donald Caskie, Church of Scotland minister linked to French resistance m.. Vladimir Chertkov, Tolstoyan thinker. n.. Mary Elizabeth Clark, Transsexual nun and AIDS activist of the American Catholic Church (birth name Michael Clark)

o.. Jacques Cl ©ment, Dominican friar and assassin. p.. Francis Collins, geneticist q.. Comenius,(1592-1670), Unity of the Brethren/Moravian r.. Boston Corbett, self-castrated minister who killed John Wilkes Booth. s.. Clifton Davis, actor and minister in Seventh-day Adventist Church. t.. William Dobbie, (1879 – 1964), Boer war veteran and member of the Plymouth Brethren who was criticized for a religious approach to leadership. u.. Johann Joseph Ignaz von D ¶llinger, a founder of Old Catholic Church v.. John Alexander Dowie, Flat Earth Society w.. Henry Drummond (1786-1860), Irvingite. x.. Freeman Dyson, physicist and Templeton Prize winner(unspecified)

y.. Mary Baker Eddy, (1821-1910), founder of Christian Science z.. Elizabeth I of England, (1558-1603), Anglican queen and first Supreme Governor of the Church of England

aa.. Jacques Ellul, Christian anarchism thinker ab.. Gloria Estefan-Singer and Catholic who dedicated a song to the Pope and asked him to pray for a free Cuba. ac.. George of Podebrady, first king to join the Hussites ad.. Gelelemend, (1737-1811), Lenape who took the name William Henry on being baptized a Moravian. ae.. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, (born 1922), Coptic Christian af.. Duane Gish, creationist. ag.. Joseph Glanvill, (1636-1680), philosopher ah.. Lemuel Haynes, (1753-1833), African-American Calvinist clergynan who opposed slavery. ai.. Henry VIII of England, (1491-1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church aj.. Jacob Hutter, founder of Hutterites ak.. Edward Irving, founded the “Irvingites” al.. David Joris, (ca. 1501 – 1556), Anabaptist thinker. am.. Salim Jubran, Arab Christian jurist. an.. Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian pacifist. ao.. Hanns Kerrl, Nazi politician who tried for a “synthesis between Nazism and Christianity.” ap.. Simon Kimbangu, founder of Kimbanguism aq.. Bernhard Knipperdolling, (1495-1536), Anabaptist ar.. James Charles Kopp, American terrorist. as.. Feliksa Kozlowska, founder of the Mariavite Church. at.. Charles H. Kraft, anthropologist, linguist, and Protestant exorcist. au.. Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers as we know them. av.. Jerry Lee Lewis, Off-again/On-again Pentecostal who’s a cousin to Jimmy Swaggart. aw.. Mechthild of Magdeburg, Cistercian nun and mystic. ax.. Haik Hovsepian Mehr, Iranian Christian(Pentecostal)

ay.. John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet az.. Ludwig M ¼ller, bishop in the Nazi created Protestant Reich Church. ba.. John Murray, (1741-1815), universalist theologian bb.. Nestorius, (428-431), Antiochene theologian, founded Nestorianism bc.. Dolly Parton, says she’s Christian and sings some gospel. (unspecific on denomination.)

bd.. Peter J. Peters, Christian Anti-Semite. be.. Pasquier Quesnel, (1634 – 1719), Theologian of Jansenism. bf.. Christina Rossetti, Poet and High Anglican, broke off with fianc © on religious grounds. bg.. Eric Robert Rudolph, Christian terrorist bh.. Charles Taze Russell, (1852-1916) also known as ‘Pastor Russell’ bi.. William Sawtrey, said to be first Lollard martyr. bj.. William J. Simmons, (b. 1880) founder of the second Ku Klux Klan and a suspended Methodist minister. bk.. Christopher Smart, Anglican poet of several religious verses. He was committed to a mental asylum for “religious mania.” bl.. D. C. Stephenson, KKK bm.. Theodoret, theologian declared a heretic at the Second Council of Constantinople bn.. Leo Tolstoy, writer and religious thinker of The Kingdom of God is Within You(excommunicated, deemed unorthodox)

bo.. Nat Turner, Slave rebellion leader bp.. William Tyndale, (1484-1536), Bible translator killed for heresy. bq.. Peter Waldo, (12th c) of the Waldensians br.. Nanne Zwiep, pastor killed for resisting the Nazis.