What is the definition of a Christian?

[MADem]

21. Or the one who rode dinosaurs, while you're at it?

Look, MoL, you do seem intent on drawing a box around your preferred definition, and demanding that anyone who wants to call themselves Christian fit into it. You'll never find satisfaction with that approach, I fear.

For example, I think if you walked into one of these storefront churches that practice santeria and tried to tell those folks, who don't have any sense of the minutiae of the Bible, who might not even be able to read, some of them, and tell them that they aren't sufficiently "Christian" they'd probably want to have a word with you. And I don't think that word would be "Welcome!"

Your experiences define what "Christian" means to YOU. So, too, do the experiences of others define what it means to them. There is no "Boss of All The Christians" who lays down the law and tells people what they're required to believe in order to call themselves members of the JC Club.