What are the minimum theological beliefs to be called Christian?

Since we are chosen on the basis of faith, how do you suppose God chose an individual to give them faith.
Through faith requires faith before being chosen and saved.
Our faith provides our access to the grace in which we stand.

 

Why did God choose Abram to receive the three-fold promise? Does scripture say? Nope.

 

Unless it is an error, to be called a Christian, one must actually be a Christian, thus born anew and indwelt.
But why does God choose to credit a person's faith as righteousness and place them into Christ where they are born anew and indwelt? Does a person need a PhD in Theology? Does the person need to condemn Calvinism? Holding the right doctrine probably makes us more effective witnesses.

 

They must know the right Jesus and right Gospel though to get saved, correct?

 

No, in order to rightly understand salvation process, need to hold to TULIP, but not required to be saved!

 

His view makes it sound that God found something in us worthy to now save us!

 

Must still know the real Jesus and the real Gospel!

 

We must have God gift to us "saving faith", and renew us first in order to apply it!

 

For His own good pleasure and purposes God elects out For Himself His own people!

 

We are NOT chosen on the basis of faith. Your statement is utterly false.
God chooses not based on merit, but solely by His Sovereign will (Read Romans 9 until this sinks in to you).

God chose whom He chose by His mysterious purpose, which He never, ever, reveals to us (nor is he obligated to do so). God creates vessels for his purpose, without consulting us or judging us by our merit (Honestly, you really have to ask God to help you understand Romans 9).
Through faith, does not require faith, before we are made alive. In fact, Galatians 3:10-12 says:
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.”

Notice that before God makes you alive, you are under the law. It's not faith. God will not and does not see any faith in you because you only have law. Van, your entire assertion is therefore false.
Van, by your teaching no one will ever gain access to God. They (and you) will be condemned under the law and justly die under the righteous law of God. Van, you are presenting a heresy to the children of God. I beg you to repent.

 

Utter nonsense non-stop from Y1. The TULI of the Tulip are false doctrines as shown by Matthew 23:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 1 Timothy 2:6, 1 Peter 2:10, and so forth and so on...

 

Unbiblical nonsense is regurgitated over and over by Y1. God must credit our faith, as worthless as it may be, as righteousness in order for our faith to become the basis for God to place us spiritually into Christ.

 

Not what 2 Thessalonians 2:13 says.

 

Note the appear to generality, lacking any specific reference. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 says God chooses people for salvation through or on the basis of faith in the truth.

Note we are made alive "together with Christ" thus after God places us spiritually into Christ, and God takes that action on the basis of crediting our faith as righteousness.

All they have folks is to wave their arms and shout taint so, taint so, your assertions are false. But the verses cited are crystal.

 

God must give to us saving faith, as lost sinners cannot produce in themselves!

 

God chose us in Christ before we were even born, from eternity past!

 

Van, I specifically addressed every verse you provided in this thread. How I wish you would stop lying.
You continue to insist on merited favor (the law). No biblically sound, mature Christian, will follow your legalism.

 

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. - [Romans 10:9-10 NIV]

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him." For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. - [John 3:14-18 NIV]​

 

GILL:

"And he believed in the Lord,.... The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan are,
"in the Word of the Lord;''
in the essential Word of the Lord, in Christ the Lord his righteousness;

he believed in the promise of God, that he should have a seed,
and a very numerous one;

he believed that the Messiah would spring from his seed;

he believed in him as his Saviour and Redeemer;

he believed in him for righteousness,
and he believed in his righteousness as justifying him before God:

and he counted it to him for righteousness;

not the act of his faith, but the object of it;

and not the promise he believed, but what was promised,
and his faith received, even Christ and his righteousness this was imputed to him without works, and while he was an uncircumcised person, for the proof of which the apostle produces this passage, Romans 4:3;

wherefore this is not to be understood of any action of his being esteemed and accounted a righteous one, and he pronounced and acknowledged a righteous person on account of it;

for Abram was not justified before God by his own works, but by the righteousness of faith, as all that believe are, that is, by the righteousness of Christ revealed to faith, and received by it: what is imputed is without a man, and the imputation of it depends upon the will of another;

such the righteousness of Christ without works imputed by God the Father. This is the first time we read of believing, and as early do we hear of imputed righteousness."