Nah. When I posed the question, I knew people would use their own definitions and justifications. This isn’t a test where someone can be right or wrong. Some will bring to the table that baptism is required. Some will say the simple act of following is sufficient.
If you define ‘Christian’ as a follower of Jesus the Christ, then there were 12 of them, His disciples. Just off the top of my head, I think Andrew may be the first.
DoKimas, Dont leave B For telling us your opinion
Imagine your body producing a child without ever having sexual intercourse. Imagine that your body begun producing the child after an encounter with a preternatural being who told you that it was going to happen and who the child is? How could Mary accept that her child was ordinary? How could she believe He was anything but what such supernatural experience made evident?
In light of that insight, do you think Adam and Eve were the first Christians?
I believe I just did.
Well, they were born first, before any of the rest of us, but they didn’t become Christians until Christ’s death and resurrection - so, no, I still say that Mary is the first Christian, since it was her “Yes” to invite Jesus quite literally into her heart that made the whole thing possible, to begin with.
I’m not really sure how I think it best to define a Christian, but I will give a few thoughts based off of some potential understandings.
it was calvin 2nd. calvin! you know this to be true…
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. - Galatians
Christianity is the result of the Pentecost so the first Christians were those who were present in the upper room.
Faith in what could support the offering of an only son as a sacrifice ?
Abraham it is.I already entered my nominee but this kinda fun. I present Abraham in light of the evidence of scripture
Abraham saw the Lord’s Day which is the eternal light of His Ressurection.