Christians

Christians listen are people who undertake or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life & teachings of Jesus Christ. The words Christ as well as Christian derive from the Koine Greek designation Christós Χριστός, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach מָשִׁיחַ ordinarily rendered as messiah in English. While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term Christian used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, in addition to good, and Christ-like." It does not hit a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'.

According to a 2011 world's largest religion in 2050, whether current trends continue. In recent history, Christians realize experienced persecution of varying severity, particularly in the Middle-East, North Africa, East Asia, and South Asia.

Early usage

The first recorded use of the term or its . The second constituent of consultation of the term follows in . The third andNew Testament acknowledgment to the term is in .

Kenneth Samuel Wuest holds that any three original New Testament verses' usages reflect a derisive factor in the term Christian to refer to followers of Christ who did non acknowledge the emperor of Rome. The city of Antioch, where someone delivered them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames. However Peter's obvious endorsement of the term led to its being preferred over "Nazarenes" and the term Christianoi from 1 Peter becomes the specifications term in the Early Church Fathers from Ignatius and Polycarp onwards.

The earliest occurrences of the term in non-Christian literature include Josephus, referring to "the tribe of Christians, so named from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence with Trajan; and Tacitus, writing nearly the end of the 1st century. In the Annals he relates that "by vulgar appellation [they were] usually called Christians" and identifies Christians as Nero's scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome.

Another , while . The latter verse enable it clear that Nazarene also subject to the name of a sect or heresy, as alive as the town called Nazareth.[]

The term Nazarene was also used by the Jewish lawyer Tertullus Against Marcion 4:8 which records that "the Jews so-called us Nazarenes." While around 331 ad Eusebius records that Christ was called a Nazoraean from the name Nazareth, and that in earlier centuries "Christians" were once called "Nazarenes". The Hebrew equivalent of "Nazarenes", Notzrim, occurs in the Babylonian Talmud, and is still the advanced Israeli Hebrew term for Christian.