Christian

context: A Christian ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. "Christian" derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach.
qas: answers: Christian
question: What is a person who follows Christianity called?

answers: Jesus Christ
question: Whose life do Christians learn from?

answers: Christós
question: What Greek word is Christian derived from?

answers: mashiach
question: Christós is translated from what Biblical term?

context: There are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict. However, "Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance." The term "Christian" is also used adjectivally to describe anything associated with Christianity, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It is also used as a label to identify people who associate with the cultural aspects of Christianity, irrespective of personal religious beliefs or practices.
qas: answers: conflict
question: While many, the perceptions of Christianity can sometimes what?

answers: significance
question: Regardless of beliefs, Christians all agree that Jesus has a unique what?

answers: the cultural aspects of Christianity
question: Whether one partakes in practices or beliefs, the label Christian is sometimes attached because they associate with what?

context: According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the world's largest religion in 2050, if current trends continue.
qas: answers: 2.2 billion
question: According to one report, how many Christians were in the world in 2010?

answers: 600 million
question: How many Christians were in the world in 1910?

answers: Christianity
question: If growth continues as it has, what religion will be the largest in the world by 2050?

context: Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, and about 26% live in Europe, 24% of total Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 13% in Asia and the Pacific, and 1% of the world's Christians live in the Middle east and North Africa. About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant (37%). Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the world's Christians. Other Christian groups make up the remainder. Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories. 280 million Christian live as a minority.
qas: answers: half
question: Of all the Christians in the world, how many are Catholic?

answers: 158
question: Christians are the majority in how many countries and territories in the world today?

context: The Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning "follower of Christ", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning "anointed one", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), meaning "[one who is] anointed." In other European languages, equivalent words to Christian are likewise derived from the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish.
qas: answers: Χριστιανός (Christianos)
question: What Greek word defines as "follower of Christ?"

answers: Χριστός (Christos)
question: Where does the Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos) come from?

answers: anointed one
question: What does Χριστός (Christos) mean?

answers: Chrétien
question: What is the French word for Christian that was derived from Greek?

context: The first recorded use of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11:26, after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says: "[...] the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26:28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4:16, which exhorts believers: "Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf."
qas: answers: Acts 11:26
question: Where is the first reference to the word Christian in the Bible?

answers: Herod Agrippa II
question: Who made the second reference to the word Christian in the Bible?

answers: Peter 4:16
question: When verse was the third mention?

context: Kenneth Samuel Wuest holds that all three original New Testament verses' usages reflect a derisive element in the term Christian to refer to followers of Christ who did not acknowledge the emperor of Rome. The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames. However Peter's apparent endorsement of the term led to its being preferred over "Nazarenes" and the term Christianoi from 1 Peter becomes the standard term in the Early Church Fathers from Ignatius and Polycarp onwards.
qas: answers: the emperor of Rome
question: Kenneth Samuel Wuest believes that the Biblical Christian term referenced people who did not acknowledge who?

answers: Antioch
question: In what city did the term Christians start?

answers: Nazarenes
question: When Peter endorsed the term, the term Christian was used instead of what other term?

context: The earliest occurrences of the term in non-Christian literature include Josephus, referring to "the tribe of Christians, so named from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence with Trajan; and Tacitus, writing near the end of the 1st century. In the Annals he relates that "by vulgar appellation [they were] commonly called Christians" and identifies Christians as Nero's scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome.
qas: answers: Josephus
question: What is one of the first mentions of the term Christian in a non-religious work, referring to a tribe of Christians?

answers: Tacitus
question: Which non-religious piece of literature had the term Christian in it towards the end of the first century?

answers: Nero
question: Christians were said to be the scapegoat of who?

context: Another term for Christians which appears in the New Testament is "Nazarenes" which is used by the Jewish lawyer Tertullus in Acts 24. Tertullian (Against Marcion 4:8) records that "the Jews call us Nazarenes," while around 331 AD Eusebius records that Christ was called a Nazoraean from the name Nazareth, and that in earlier centuries "Christians," were once called "Nazarenes." The Hebrew equivalent of "Nazarenes", Notzrim, occurs in the Babylonian Talmud, and is still the modern Israeli Hebrew term for Christian.
qas: answers: Nazarenes
question: In Acts 24, what is another word that Christians are called?

answers: Nazoraean
question: What was Jesus called since he was from Nazareth?

answers: Notzrim
question: What is another Hebrew term for Nazarenes?

answers: modern Israeli Hebrew
question: Wha still calls Christians Notzrim?

context: A wide range of beliefs and practices is found across the world among those who call themselves Christian. Denominations and sects disagree on a common definition of "Christianity". For example, Timothy Beal notes the disparity of beliefs among those who identify as Christians in the United States as follows:
qas: answers: beliefs and practices
question: While Christianity is ultimately one belief, a wide range of what is found among the different denominations and sects?

context: Linda Woodhead attempts to provide a common belief thread for Christians by noting that "Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance." Philosopher Michael Martin, in his book The Case Against Christianity, evaluated three historical Christian creeds (the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed) to establish a set of basic assumptions which include belief in theism, the historicity of Jesus, the Incarnation, salvation through faith in Jesus, and Jesus as an ethical role model.
qas: answers: Linda Woodhead
question: Who states that Christian believers agree that Jesus has a unique significance? 

answers: Michael Martin
question: Who wrote The Case Against Christianity?

answers: three
question: How many historical Christian creeds did Martin write about?

answers: faith in Jesus
question: What do Christians believe is the way to salvation?

answers: the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed
question: What are the three creeds Martin studied?

context: The identification of Jesus as the Messiah is not accepted by Judaism. The term for a Christian in Hebrew is נוּצְרי (Notzri—"Nazarene"), a Talmudic term originally derived from the fact that Jesus came from the Galilean village of Nazareth, today in northern Israel. Adherents of Messianic Judaism are referred to in modern Hebrew as יְהוּדִים מָשִׁיחַיים (Yehudim Meshihi'im—"Messianic Jews").
qas: answers: Messiah
question: Judaism does not believe that Jesus is the what?

answers: Galilean village
question: What village did Jesus come from?

answers: Nazareth
question: Where was the Galilean village?

answers: northern Israel
question: Where is Nazareth located?

context: In Arabic-speaking cultures, two words are commonly used for Christians: Naṣrānī (نصراني), plural Naṣārā (نصارى) is generally understood to be derived from Nazareth through the Syriac (Aramaic); Masīḥī (مسيحي) means followers of the Messiah. The term Nasara rose to prominence in July 2014, after the Fall of Mosul to the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The nun or ن— the first letter of Nasara—was spray-painted on the property of Christians ejected from the city.
qas: answers: followers of the Messiah
question: What does Masīḥī mean?

answers: July 2014
question: When did the term Nasara become used more in modern times?

answers: the Fall of Mosul
question: What happened in July 2014?

answers: the first letter of Nasara
question: What was spray pained on the properties of Christians who left the area?

context: Where there is a distinction, Nasrani refers to people from a Christian culture and Masihi means those with a religious faith in Jesus. In some countries Nasrani tends to be used generically for non-Muslim Western foreigners, e.g. "blond people."
qas: answers: Nasrani
question: Which term is in reference to people from a Christian culture?

answers: Masihi
question: Which term is indicative of people who place their faith in Jesus?

answers: Nasrani
question: What description is used for Western people who do not follow the Muslim faith?

context: Another Arabic word sometimes used for Christians, particularly in a political context, is Ṣalībī (صليبي "Crusader") from ṣalīb (صليب "cross") which refers to Crusaders and has negative connotations. However, Salibi is a modern term; historically, Muslim writers described European Christian Crusaders as al-Faranj or Alfranj (الفرنج) and Firinjīyah (الفرنجيّة) in Arabic" This word comes from the Franks and can be seen in the Arab history text Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by Ali ibn al-Athir.
qas: answers: Ṣalībī
question: What is the Arabic term when referring to Christians in a political sense?

answers: cross
question: Ṣalībī comes from the word ṣalīb, which means what?

answers: Crusader
question: What does Ṣalībī mean?

answers: European Christian Crusaders
question: What does Alfranj mean?

context: The most common Persian word is Masīhī (مسیحی), from Arabic.,Other words are Nasrānī (نصرانی), from Syriac for "Nazarene", and Tarsā (ترسا), from Middle Persian word Tarsāg, also meaning "Christian", derived from tars, meaning "fear, respect".
qas: answers: Masīhī
question: What is the most common Persian word for Christian?

answers: Nasrānī
question: What is the Syriac word for Nazarene?

answers: fear, respect
question: What does tars mean?

answers: Tarsā
question: What is the Middle Persion word for Christian?

context: The Syriac term Nasrani (Nazarene) has also been attached to the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India. In the Indian subcontinent, Christians call themselves Isaai (Hindi: ईसाई, Urdu: عیسائی‎), and are also known by this term to adherents of other religions. This is related to the name they call Jesus, 'Isa Masih, and literally means 'the followers of 'Isa'.
qas: answers: Nasrani
question: Which word has been connected to Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India?

answers: Isaai
question: What do followers of Jesus call themselves in the Indian subcontinent?

answers: Isa Masih
question: What do the people in the Indian subcontinent call Jesus?

context: In the past, the Malays used to call the Portuguese Serani from the Arabic Nasrani, but the term now refers to the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia.
qas: answers: Nasrani
question: What term did the Malays use for the Portuguese Serani?

answers: the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia
question: What does the term refer to now? 

context: The Chinese word is 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú), literally "Christ follower." The two characters now pronounced Jīdū in Mandarin Chinese, were originally pronounced Ki-To in Cantonese as representation of Latin "Cristo".[citation needed] In Vietnam, the same two characters read Cơ đốc, and a "follower of Christianity" is a tín đồ Cơ đốc giáo.
qas: answers: 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú)
question: What is the Chinese word for Christian?

answers: Christ follower
question: What does 基督徒 (pinyin: jīdū tú) mean?

answers: Ki-To in Cantonese
question: What was the original pronunciation of Jīdū?

answers: Cơ đốc
question: What did the two characters read in Vietnamese? 

context: In Japan, the term kirishitan (written in Edo period documents 吉利支丹, 切支丹, and in modern Japanese histories as キリシタン), from Portuguese cristão, referred to Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries before the religion was banned by the Tokugawa shogunate. Today, Christians are referred to in Standard Japanese as キリスト教徒, Kirisuto-kyōto or the English-derived term クリスチャン kurisuchan.
qas: answers: kirishitan
question: What Japanese term was used in reference to Roman Catholics?

answers: 16th and 17th centuries
question: When was the term kirishitan used by the Japanese?

answers: the Tokugawa shogunate
question: Who banned Roman Catholicism in Japan?

answers: Kirisuto-kyōto
question: How are Christians referenced today in Japan?

context: Korean still uses 기독교도, Kidok-kyo-do for "Christian", though the Greek form Kurisudo 그리스도 has now replaced the old Sino-Korean Kidok, which refers to Christ himself.
qas: answers: 기독교도, Kidok-kyo-do
question: What is the Korean word for Christian?

answers: Sino-Korean Kidok
question: Which term referred to Jesus himself?

answers: Kurisudo 그리스도
question: What is the modern term for Sino-Korean Kidok?

context: The region of modern Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia (Russia, Ukraine and other countries of the ex-USSR) have a long history of Christianity and Christian communities on its lands. In ancient times, in the first centuries after the birth of Christ, when this region was called[by whom?] Scythia - Christians already lived there. Later the region saw the first states to adopt Christianity officially - initially in Armenia (301 AD) and in Georgia (337 AD), later in the Great Russian Principality (Kyivan Rus, Russian: Великое княжество Русское, ca 988 AD). People of that time used to denote themselves Christians (христиане, крестьяне) and Russians (русские). Both terms had strong Christian connotations.[citation needed] It is also interesting that in time the term "крестьяне" acquired the meaning "peasants of Christian faith" and later "peasants" (the main part of the population of the region), while the term "христиане" retained its religious meaning and the term "русские" began to mean representatives of the heterogeneous Russian nation formed on the basis of common Christian faith and language,[citation needed] which strongly influenced the history and development of the region. In the region the "Pravoslav faith" (православная вера - Orthodox faith) or "Russian faith" (русская вера) from earliest times became almost as known as the original "Christian faith" (христианская, крестьянская вера). Also in some contexts the term "cossack" (козак, казак - free man by the will of God) was used[by whom?] to denote "free" Christians of steppe origin and Russian language.
qas: answers: Scythia
question: What was the region of Eastern Europe called in 1 AD?

answers: Armenia
question: What was the first state in this region to adopt Christianity? 

answers: 301 AD
question: When did Armenia adopt Christianity?

answers: 337 AD
question: When did Georgia adopt Christianity? 

answers: Pravoslav faith
question: What nearly was known as the original 'Christian faith'?

context: As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2.4 billion adherents. The faith represents about a third of the world's population and is the largest religion in the world. Christians have composed about 33 percent of the world's population for around 100 years. The largest Christian denomination is the Roman Catholic Church, with 1.17 billion adherents, representing half of all Christians.
qas: answers: 100 years
question: How long have Christians made up nearly 1/3rd of the population?

answers: Roman Catholic Church
question: Which Christian denomination has the most members?

answers: 1.17 billion
question: How many people today are Roman Catholics?

context: Christianity remains the dominant religion in the Western World, where 70% are Christians. A 2011 Pew Research Center survey found that 76.2% of Europeans, 73.3% in Oceania, and about 86.0% in the Americas (90% in Latin America and 77.4% in North America) described themselves as Christians.
qas: answers: Christianity
question: More people belong to what religion than any other in the Western world?

context: According to 2012 Pew Research Center survey if current trends continue, Christianity will remains the world's largest religion by year 2050. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. While Muslims have an average of 3.1 children per woman—the highest rate of all religious groups. Christians are second, with 2.7 children per woman. High birth rates and conversion were cited as the reason for the Christian population growths. A 2015 study found that approximately 10.2 million Muslim converted to Christianity. Christianity is growing in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Muslim world, and Oceania.
qas: answers: Christianity
question: Which religion will have the most followers by the year 2050 if trends continue?

answers: 2.7
question: On average, how many children do Christians have?

answers: 10.2 million
question: How many Muslims converted to Christianity according to a 2015 poll?

answers: High birth rates
question: In addition to conversion, what other reason is given for the trend in Christianity's followers?

context: According to Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United State by Harriet Zuckerman, a review of American Nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 1972, 72% of American Nobel Prize laureates identified a Protestant background. Overall, Protestants have won a total of 84.2% of all the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, 60% in Medicine, and 58.6% in Physics awarded to Americans between 1901 and 1972.
qas: answers: Protestant
question: What denomination of Christianity had the highest percentage of Nobel Prize winners between 1901 and 1972 in America?