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What is the absolute fewest beliefs to be considered a "true" Christian?

I don't care what denomination or religion in broad terms. I want the absolute minimum and what they are. Explanations would also help.

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  • 9 years ago
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    repentance or remorse

    asking forgiveness in the name of Christ

    making restitution if you were in the wrong

    givng thanks and praise daily for God's mercy found in Christ

    be willing to forgive anyone who is sincere in asking your forgiveness as Christ forgave you

    share your joy with others

  • 9 years ago

    Zero, i.e. a person in an irreversible coma. Christianity is a permanent transformation, which depends initially on the beliefs someone has at the time, but these beliefs can change. A milder situation would be someone who suffers a head injury and is no longer able to understand what they previously professed. Clearly God is not going to withdraw His mercy from someone due to their apparent misfortune.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The Bible says that not something is to be further or taken removed from the Holy Bible. including something, the quran, any buddhist records or writings, including the e book of Mormon, it does not remember, the Bible says for not something to be further or taken away. subsequently i does not evaluate a mormon as a Christian. not that i'm casting hatred upon them. i'm as lots of a sinner as everybody, and that i desire the grace of God as much as everybody, yet God is obvious for the period of scripture to adhere to his word, and his word on my own. yet another element I even have is that as quickly as the Bible became prepare, the apostles of Jesus had to place in writing it, or approve of the guy who wrote it. for occasion James, he became not an apostle, yet he became the brother of Jesus, and the apostles agreed that it became nevertheless okay to have. additionally Luke became not an apostle, yet he became accepted to place in writing a gospel alongside with matthew mark and john. So something interior the bible had to be "okayed" via the followers of Christ. subsequently i'd desire to seem slender minded while it contains the different records or writings outdoors of the bible.

  • 9 years ago

    Paul says you must believe Jesus is Lord (that is, divine), and you must believe God raised Him from the dead. However in stating a belief God raised Him from the dead, it is implied you believe He died for your sins.

    " But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

    Romans 10:8-10

    " Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

    For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures."

    I Corinthians 15:1-4

    Now is saying also you believe and confess Jesus as Lord, it is further implied you have received the Spirit of Christ:

    " Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. "

    Romans 8:9

    http://www.campuscrusade.com/fourlawsflash.htm

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Confess you are a sinner

    Believe that Jesus is Son of God/Died for your sins

    Follow God's commandments by repenting (turn away) from your sin.

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    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It appears that the Apostle's Creed pretty much sums it up.

    Kuma

  • 9 years ago

    You drink poison and stay alive

    You can speak every language of this world

    .You should have the ability to heal the wounds by your touch blah blah

  • I don't know but if you stop going to church, or have never been to one, you are considered a false Christian.

  • 9 years ago

    Jesus died on the cross. God is real. He loves you and you are a child of God.

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