Christological definitions have been around for 1700 years So what???
The difference between Christian and non Christian.
You don't believe in the Christian God as decreed in Nicea, you don't approve of the Theotokos, you don't believe in the Eucharist. If you don't mind me asking, just what makes you Christian?
Jesus Christ does...There's absolutely nothing I, you, or anyone else could do to become a Christian, a member of the Body of Christ, the church...
If you don't believe in the Jesus Christ of Christianity, then what makes you less of a non Christian than the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses?
I've already passed the test...Jesus stamped an A on my paper and I didn't even have to take the test...I'm good to go...
Not even Paul 'knew' that he was saved. I guess that you are extra special.
Probably won't get much in the way of rewards...I'm running the race for the rewards but I stumble over the hurdles quite a bit...
So, eternal salvation is not enough for you guys? You are looking for rewards like a seal doing tricks at Sea World and getting herring? It says that the eternal reward of men is that they will be in the presence of Almighty God forever, not that they will be fed herring out of a bucket.
It gets rather nuts when non Christians attempt to apply Christian terms to their theology.
I'm honestly not picking on you tonight, Mark, but I find I must answer some of these wild things you are coming out with. Paul most certainly KNEW he was saved, and that same assurance is our own if we have trusted in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Want some proof? Okay:
II Corinthians 5:1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
II Corinthians 5:5-8 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Galatians 2:16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.
Romans 3:24-28 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.
Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I could go on, there are many, many more but it is late and time for bed. I find it hard to believe that a person who claims to study the Bible would ever say that Paul did not know he was saved. He did, and so can we who place our faith in Christ. We can KNOW we have eternal life (I John 5:13).