There are no true Christians

In order to be a Bible believing Christian, you must have faith in Jesus. This is repeated many times in the New Testament (NT) so I am sure we are in agreement. Would you agree than in order to have faith in Jesus and his words, you would need to know what Jesus said in order to have that faith? After all, if faith is believing that what God (or God's word) says is true, you have to know what God's word says. I want to offer you several Biblical tests to prove your faith: 1. Will you drink some kind of poison to prove your faith? Mark 16:17-18 says: "And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all. .. " As it says, if you believe (have faith), there are things you can do that other people without faith cannot do and one of these is that you can drink poison and it will not hurt you. I won't even bring up the snake handling. Can Christians do that and are they willing to do that publicly to prove their faith. 2. Will you give me $1000? "Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you" (Matthew 5:42). It seems obvious that Jesus said to give and to loan whatever is asked. This seems to be a great way to test your faith that regardless of how much you give or loan, Jesus will take care of you. In the same speech, Jesus re-emphasizes not to worry about your own needs: "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? " (Mat. 6:26). If you have faith, you will have no problem at all giving or loaning whatever is asked of you because your Heavenly father will take care of you just as he takes care of birds who have no money. I have brought this up to other Bible believers on an online forum and several asked me "Do you really think Jesus meant to just give away whatever is asked of you? That would just be crazy so you cannot take that so literally. " Truthfully, they did make sense. I would agree with these believers that it does not make sense to give to anyone at any time whatever they asked of you without any recourse. It would be crazy to do that. However, that is only the case if you think in a normal, worldly sense. Normally, it would be crazy to give everything you have to whoever asked but the Biblical Jesus is not about normalcy. It is about having faith. He is saying that if you had the faith of a mustard seed, you will have no problem giving away what is asked and then letting God take care of you. This is a test of your faith. Lastly, and this is the big one, there is a very clear acid test of a person who has faith in Jesus: "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these (John 14:12). Jesus said whoever believed (has faith) in him will do greater things than what he has been doing! What had Jesus been doing? Here is a partial list; healing the sick, making blind men see, turning water into wine, walking on water and raising the dead. Ask yourself this question: Do you do all of these things and more? If not, according to Jesus, you do not believe in him. Have you ever known of anyone who did any of these things, let alone all of them and more? If you do not do these things proving you do not believe in him, how can you see that you are born again and on the path to eternal life?