Christian. When all things are thought common, or of prosaic origin, when they are classified and compared it can only be by their common traits. If the whole of religion is thought without an uncommon, demonstrated supernatural proof of its claims, then “Christian” and “Christianity” are only those common forms of religious practices and members among and the equal to other world religions. If the members of Christianity operate also on this presumption of the opacity of its faith, it is expected that the first points of contact with the concepts “Christian” and “Christianity” would be conceived on common and universal standards as well. ” Christian” would be, therefore, “a person who believes in Jesus the Son of God,” and “a religion in which a central practice is the communion of the blood of the New Covenant,” since these topographically only describe features unique to a common Christian religion. Nothing in these descriptions need carry a connotation of faith and a practice rooted in remembrance of a sharply uncommon historical proof of a transcendent claim. But “Christian” is rooted in the word “Messiah,” and Messiah is a prophetic name of one predicted and fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, making, if true, “Christian,” despite how it is used, a very uncommon name for a person of a faith in a supernatural prophecy and a supernatural fulfillment in proof of the nature and existence of its God.
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