King David, the first christian chronologically speaking

[Ion]

If you read King David last words, he was humble when he speaks about Messiah and the fact that he will be a descendant of him;king David didn’t think that God promise was based on any merits of his house, but he had hopes in his salvation, on his deathbed;that means he hoped in his resurrection and redemption based on the blood relationship with Messiah; this is our hope and faith, that we will be saved through the Body of Christ. This faith and hope makes King David a christian. When God said that messiah will be from King David, it was a gift for David and his family, Jesus did not inherit anything from him. As the genealogy in Luke suggests, grace goes from Jesus to King David

 

[rcwitness]

I would say Mary was the first Christian.

Not that I dissagree with you, though.

There’s just something about those who received the gospel fulfilled.

Hebrews 11:39,40 has caused me to wonder!

Peace
Michael

 

[TK421]

I think Abel was probably the first “in the know” Christian, after he died and went to Sheol as God’s friend. It might be cheating to include people that died though, and I don’t think there’s any authoritative word that the righteous in Sheol were at once revealed everything. But if you consider that it took his dad over 900 years to finally die, Abel probably had a lot of time to kill just sitting around in Sheol by himself learning how to master the harp and trumpet while waiting for other people to show up. God probably took pity on the poor guy and slipped him all sorts of tidbits of information in fortune cookies just to keep him interested. I’m glad I wasn’t Abel. Dude must have been bored out of his skull.

Okay, everything but the first two sentences in that paragraph was a joke.

Mary is traditionally seen as the “prototype” Christian here on Earth

All of the old testament saints were invisible Christians.

 

[Judas_Thaddeus]

Possibly, though Adam might have known of Jesus, not clear there.
I would also suggest that Enoch and
Elijah, having been taken to Heaven,
might count as Christians.

 

[Evan]

In the Didache (written between AD70 and AD110) Adam is given as the first Christian.

Since all in heaven are Christian, if Adam is there, he is first.

 

[bsroufek]

Actually, in the Gospel, Jesus says that “Abraham saw my day and was glad.” So, this makes Abraham a Christian as well.

 

[Ion]

I didn’t mean the first person that was saved, there were before him others who loved God, loved their neighbor and didn’t have any mortal sin;
King David believed in his salvation through the Body of Christ, specifically because of the blood relationship; and King David had mortal sins.

 

[Evan]

In the Didache (written between AD70 and AD110) Adam is given as the first Christian.

Since all in heaven are Christian, if Adam is there, he is first.

I goofed on this one. I thought it was the Shepherd of Hermas (not the Didache) but I can’t find now where this was written. Maybe I’m just making this stuff up as I go along.