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Christian
- A
religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ
and who is a member of a Christian denomination.
The term Christian means "belonging to Christ" which
means "anointed one," which is itself a translation
of the Hebrew word Moshiach.
(wikipedia)
Census offices, many dictionaries, mainline and liberal
Christians, and the media generally accept as Christian
any group that seriously and thoughtfully identifies
itself as Christian. Some conservative Christians
restrict the term to only born-again Fundamentalist
or other Evangelical Christians." (Religious
Tolerance)
A
follower of Christ. At first Christians were exclusively
Jews. After Christ's death, Gentiles were brought
into the faith and after the apostasy Gentiles dominated
the faith to the point of excluding and persecuting
Jews. (IDA)
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