What are the requirements to be a Christian?

[alanmolstad]

Originally Posted by Billyray

In a sense.....

The Arminian/Calvin debate...
Its such a waste of time...

Its like listening to people talk about the logical steps a young man takes as he falls madly in love with a girl.

People are just people.

We are not programed like that guys...

We do not have a faith life that is able to be rendered to a numeric list ....as if the Christian teaching of Salvation can be read off like a pre-flight check list.

There is only one matter that is important, and compared to it the whole Arminian/Calvin debate becomes seen as little more than bothersome .

The resurrection of Jesus is why we are Christians...

Changing the meaning of the resurrection, changing the Jesus of the resurrection, or rejecting the resurrection's importance is why a person is not a Christian.

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