A real Christian is someone that has accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior and now has a personal relationship with Him. We need to believe in Him with our hearts and this is called "faith". The reformers said that there were three aspects to faith and this seems to be in line with the Bible. Faith they said, involved knowledge, belief and trust. We need to know ABOUT Jesus in order to make a choice to follow Him. Once we have the required knowledge we need to believe that He is who He claimed to be. Finally, we need to trust fully in Him. We cannot simply believe in Him; this does not make us a Christian. We need to fully trust Him with our lives from the point of conversion on. This does not imply that we can lose salvation, rather it implies that at the moment of conversion we need to be bearing our naked souls to the Divine. Many people think that belief alone is what faith is all about, but consider this: We are saved by faith alone, yet James says this:
You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!
James 2:19
Belief is not enough; even the demons believe! Does this mean that the demons have faith? Of course not. We need to know what we believe, believe what we know, and trust in what we know and believe. The people that do these things are real Christians.
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