complained that everyone in Denmark considered
themselves to be “Christians” because they were born into
the state church and baptized as infants, concluding that “if
everyone is a Christian, then no one is a Christian.” Witch-
hunts, inquisitions and political wars have been conducted
in the name of “Christian religion.” Many have
subsequently rejected “Christianity,” offended or injured by
its multitudinous religious aberrations and injustices. Still
others (as we shall do in this study), reserve the term
“Christianity” for the spiritual reality of the function of the
living Lord Jesus in Christians.
The mere usage of terminology is not our objective,
though, since language is in constant flux. Rather, the
questions are: What was the initial and Biblical
understanding of what it meant to be a Christian? What do
the Biblical writers imply to be the essence of Christianity?
Although the term “Christianity” is not found in the
Scriptures, we will consider it to be indicative of everything
that Jesus Christ came to be and to do. The entirety of the
revelation of God to man is constituted and comprised of
the person and work of Jesus Christ. In and by His Son,
God enacted everything necessary to restore mankind to
His divinely intended function, reinvesting man with the
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