There are no true Christians

Faith is subjective. My opponent can not tell me if I have faith. Can he evaluate my actions to draw a logical conclusion from them? Certainly! But faith is an internal matter. Well, not exactly. When Jesus said exactly what true believers are capable of, I can know what true faith is. My opponent stated that I'd be able to drink poison with no side-effects as a testimony to my faith. However, I'm not going to lie. I don't have sufficient faith to do this. The same faith it takes to believe you can drink poison and have no side effects is the same faith you need to believe that Jesus died for your sins and is coming back for you - the smallest amount of faith possible. Faith is believing what God says is true. If you believe the one part, how can you not believe the rest? Are you suggesting that when Jesus said you could that he may not have been honest? You mentioned the story of Peter and his doubts. You have to understand something very important about that whole story but I will get to that at the end of this round. My opponent then proceeded to try and scam me out of my money once again... For the record, I do have $50. And no, I'm not trying to get out of giving my opponent money. The thing is, Christians shouldn't enable sinful behavior. If I give everyone money when they ask for it, they could use it for sinful purposes. First, what did I say the money was for? I never mentioned sinful behavior. I never mentioned anything. Also, Jesus did not say "when someone asks you for money to borrow or keep, find out what it is going to be for." No, he said to simply give it. I know it does not make sense but that is what the Bible says. I did not imply that it made sense. Jesus healed people who had faith in His ability to heal. There is never an account of Him healing someone who didn't believe in Him. Sorry. I'm sorry too because you are not familiar enough with the Bible. However, I have a few decades on you so I will show a few examples: 1. Peter and John healed a lame man who did not even know who they were (Acts 3 1-10) and he did not even ask nor expect to be healed. They just zapped him. 2. Jesus raised the dead at a funeral. How could the dead person have had faith? (Luke 7) 3. Remember when Peter cut the ear off of the soldier at Jesus's arrest. Jesus promptly put it back on and we know that faith did not come into play. The soldier was an enemy. 4. Jesus healed great crowds of people without any indication of anyone having faith. Blind people could not even see Jesus and yet they had faith? Based on what? In the beginning of his ministry, no one knew who he was. They did not follow him until he started doing miracles. Also, if what you say is true, then Jesus only healed believers in him leaving all non-Christians today exempt from any healing. Think about that. Even if you had the faith to let Jesus heal through you, you would have to tell the non-believers "Sorry, the healings are only for our kind of people." What kind of love is that? Even by your second standard you brought up, Peter was an example of a "true Christian" correct? However, even though he undeniably had faith, there was still much sorrow and sickness during his time. No, Peter was not a Christian. You would not call a Jewish person who believes the Messiah is here a "Christian." There were no Christians in the modern sense while Jesus was still alive. Paul gave us the definition of a Christian as someone who believes he died for your sins and rose again. John 3:16 provides the TRUE definition of a Christian. We are debating the one my opponent first brought up in the 1st Round, but anyone who falls under the TRUE definition should also fall under the broader definition we're debating anyways. John 3:16 is simply about belief and the Bible explains what belief is. It is accompanied by action. If you have a true belief, you will be keeping the commandments of God (Rev. 14:12) and doing what Jesus said. Belief in weight loss means nothing until you actually change your diet and/or exercise. Belief will not make one lose weight. Justin, you seem like a really nice, polite guy. You are giving answers that I would pretty much expect from any professing Christian and I do not expect you to throw it all away in one debate. You would be weak-willed if you did! I mean that. I grew up in church, ignored it for a while and then went at it full force for 12 straight years until I started seeing first one problem, then more, then a lot more, then a tremendous amount more. It all started with me simply testing the Bible, something that it says to do. If you have looked at any of my other debates, I pick certain things in the Bible and debate them to show the lack of credibility and trustworthiness in the Bible. I specialize in the NT and how it completely contradicts the OT (especially Paul) but I debate lots of Biblical topics. I mentioned Peter earlier and said I would get back to him. Justin, it is as simple as this. You cannot use Peter as an example of someone who had weak faith but he still believe and Jesus was fine with that and here is why; it is a story in a book. You never met Peter. You never were told by Jesus that Peter existed. You are basing this not on faith in Jesus but in your faith in man that the book itself is actually the word of God. You assume it is and you believe it is but you have not the first piece of evidence. However, there is plenty of evidence against it and that would be true even if there were no mistakes in the book. Are you up for a real faith test? I would like to challenge you. You don't have to drink poison, give me money or cast any demons out of the voice of Nickelback's lead singer (unless you also see the need). Here is all you have to do. Email me at bw124 at hotmail and I will send you a digital copy of a book I wrote for free. If you can read all of this book and you still believe the Bible, you pass. Great debating with you!