What is a Believer?

[Admon Mikha'el]

Nobody has the right to interpret the Word of God except the Holy Spirit

 

[Waggles]

Who does Jesus describe as being a believer??
Mark 16:15 And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
16:16 Who hath believed and is baptized shall be saved; but who hath disbelieved shall be condemned.
16:17 And these signs shall follow them that have believed: in my name shall they cast out demons, speak with tongues;
16:18 and in their hands they shall take up serpents, and if they drink aught deadly, it shall in now wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
16:19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
16:20 And THEY went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed.

 

[Admon Mikha'el]

Who does Jesus describe as being a believer??
Mark 16:15 And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
16:16 Who hath believed and is baptized shall be saved; but who hath disbelieved shall be condemned.
16:17 And these signs shall follow them that have believed: in my name shall they cast out demons, speak with tongues;
16:18 and in their hands they shall take up serpents, and if they drink aught deadly, it shall in now wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
16:19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
16:20 And THEY went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed.

That's a good start.....and...? If I do not believe every word of the bible as it's written, am I a believer?

 

[Waggles]

John 16:13 But when that one comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he heareth, these shall he speak:
and he shall declare to you the things to come.
16:14 HE shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it to you.

 

[Gregoryp]

Believer version one: Say a prayer with someone laying hands on you (jesus christ is my lord and saviour, died on the cross, rose on the third day and sat at the right hand side of our Holy Father, died that we can live) purchase a bible, go home, read it occasionaly, business as usual. This is the wordly believer. Believer version two, the above, except TOTAL rejection of the world , stay away from organised religion (as told in the bible) preach the word, live by example, and worship Jesus Christ to the point of scarifice if necessary. Version two is the only one Jesus will accept.

 

[Gregoryp]

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.~
John 4:23–24

 

[Born Again 2004]

That's a good start.....and...? If I do not believe every word of the bible as it's written, am I a believer?

It's not that I don't believe some things, just don't understand them all, but I accept everything and know I will some day know all as well as I am known!