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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE JESUS IS CHRIST

What does it mean to believe Jesus is the Christ.?
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 1 John 5:1
Believing Jesus is the Christ is believing unto righteousness (Rom.10:10) or a knowledge unto becoming a son of God (John 1:12) when justified by God (Rom.8:29-30).
Believing Jesus is the Christ or the anointed (which is what Christ means) means believing Jesus is the Son of God as Nathaniel said in John 1:49, or and as Peter said in Matt.16:16 I quote "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus was anointed as the Son of the Living God, the only revelation of the Father (John 1:18), and according to John, He is the Word that lighteth all men that come into the world (John 1:9), because in Him is Life which is the Spiritual knowledge of the Father- Nature who is Love (John 17:3,26) and who is the Life that lighteth all men through Himself the Word (John 1:4).
Thus to believe Christ is the Son of living God is to accept His call to be sons of God and to accept Him as the way the truth and the life (John 14:6) for our inner experience. To believe Him as the Christ is to accept His demonstration of how we are to be sons of God spiritually. When we believe that demonstration God justifies us and makes us Righteous within by His indwelling Divine nature Love, as it written in Romans 8:29-30 "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

P.S. Other text bringing out the above truth:
Rom.10:10
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

When a person fulfill the condition of believing God then makes them righteous within or a son of God.
Note: John 1:12-13 quoted below it is shown when you believe He is the Christ you receive power to become sons of God which is to be born of God this is the power of justification in changing the person into the image of the Son. This is what we were told in Rom.8:29-30 where it is explained those that are predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Son them he also justify. This shows the predestinated way of being conformed to the image of the Son occurs through justification.
John 1:12,13 kjv
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Note John 3:9 quoted below shows the person who is transformed to image of the Son by being born of God does not commit sin. This means the person lives righteous because they were made righteous or justified.
1John 3:9 kjv
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Romans 8:2-4 quoted below shows the reason God sent His Son was to cause the righteousness of the law to be fulfilled in us through the life of the Spirit of Christ in us which other text mentioned before show occurs when we are justified and born of God.
Rom.8:2-4 kjv
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

This is the same life mentioned in John 3:16, I quote:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting LIFE."
So to believe in Jesus is to believe he is the Christ, the Son of living God a demonstration of how we are to be as sons through His Love Life knowledge dwelling in us by His indwelling through the Spirit.

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