[78-L] Who was the first Christian?^

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Who was the first Christian? It wasn't Jesus.

      Julian Vein


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I don't know if this was a rhetorical question or just your basic trivia question.

I'm certainly not a biblical scholar, I'm just your average agnostic still looking for answers.  But according to the Gospels, Mary was informed while she was pregnant that she would bear the Son of God, so I guess that would make her the first Christian.  If we believe the now constantly challenged Christmas story as portrayed in the Gospels, I would have to think the Kings and Shepherds who visited the Nativity scene, (although it was pointed out to me the other week that there is nothing in the Bible which says these Kings came to the Nativity stable, but appeared a while later, and aside from a popular Christmas Carol, there's no suggestion that there were three of them), but they too would have been early Christians.  In Jesus' adult life, I think John the Baptist would be the first Christian.  I'm sure there are far more devout people than I on this list who may have a better answer.

db