What are the requirements to be a Christian?

[alanmolstad]

Originally Posted by alanmolstad

This forum section is about Mormons, and in that light I know that there are many issues that the Mormons teach that run counter to my own views.
But that does not mean anything...

You can be a Christian and have extra Canon.
You can be a Christian and have your own Apostles
You can be a Christian and have your own temple
You can be a Christian and have secret handshakes, secret names.

You can have all the the trimmings that you ***ociate with the Mormon church and still be Christian....as long as you return to the only central idea behind the Christian faith,,,,the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If a person does not change who Jesus Christ is, If the person does not change the meaning of the Christian churches teachings about the death and resurrection of the true Jesus Christ of the bible....then there is room for many things that are at best debatable side-issues.

But change who Jesus Christ is?....Change the story of the resurrection?...and it dont matter what other what else a person has faith in....you are still not a Christian

Sometimes I look at the church and i see there standing in the doorway a Christian that is proclaiming the message of his church loudly...

But as I draw closer I notice something else....

I cant tell if the guy is holding the door to his church open for others,,,or is busy shutting the door?