"our real identity as sons of God part three

When the word of God makes any reference to "in Jesus name", it is referring to His character and nature and therefore when the 1st century Jews made reference to "Christos", to describe the lives of the Believers, it was pointing to the fact that their lifestyles was in the same spiritual nature as Christ and therefore "Christos" means living in the spirit of the Son of God. So too, the term "Messianic" described walking in the spirit of the Son of God...so that when Paul, Peter, John and all of the Church referred to themselves as sons of God, they knew that the Holy Spirit had transformed their inner nature to be like Christ...their existence was now In Christ, to the point where, people on the outside saw no difference in the way they lived and the way Christ lived...but when in 1611, "christian" came into being, it not only replaced "son of God", it changed the spirit by which the believers conducted their lives. Why?..because "christian" was modelled after the Roman Church which was the dominant church, at the time. The beliefs and concepts of this Roman Church had taken a different direction to what was taught and practiced by Jesus and the Apostles in Jerusalem. The paradigm had shifted and therefore a new religion had emerged, and even though the Romans still used Jesus Christ as the head of their earth-based beliefs, the spirit of this movement was no longer "Messianic" or "Christos". Many of the pagan practises were fused into what came out from Jerusalem and thus the kingdom ideal of Christ was replaced with a Roman way of life. And thus ithis s the tragedy of Christianity...it has developed over the years in a totally different spirit to that of the sonship Spirit of Christ. Even though christians use the same Bible and use the name of Jesus Christ, a christian does not live in the true intimacy with the Spirit, as does a son of God. We will go into more indepth in part four.