The Conditions to be Certified as a Follower of Christ Jesus
What should be the conditions to be certified and admitted as followers of Christ Jesus?
1. First, you have to admit that Christ Jesus came from the God, although you might not be able to judge on whether He is the God, the Son of the God, an embodied angel, or other deity.
2. Second, you have to accept His teachings, although you might not be able to understand the true meaning of all His teachings.
3. Thirdly, you have to perform His teachings and live in accordance with them, although it must be difficult to do it 100% in your everyday living. So, you have to make full efforts to do it as much as possible.
However, you have to believe that the God exists as basic condition like Jewish people, Muslims, conventional Christians, etc.
Put simply. believing in Christ Jesus is believing his words that He came from the God; He lived in the God; and the God lived in Him. Therefore, those who believe in Christ Jesus believe in the existence of the spiritual world including Heaven and the hell.
But how can we believe in Christ Jesus? Ironically, if we find evil influence of Satan around us, we may find divinity or divine nature of Christ Jesus. The Bible clearly shows the state of Christ Jesus being attacked by Satan.
Or we had better think what state the present world would be in without Christ Jesus. We own most of the culture, science, technology, and the way of thinking of today to Christ Jesus and Christianity through 2000 year history. Even those who deny divinity of Christ Jesus today are living and thinking in environments established or influenced by Christianity.
Lastly, the most impressive teaching of Christ Jesus is that rich men cannot enter into Heaven but poor men can. Therefore to be a follower of Christ Jesus, you have to be poor. In this context, every rich leader of organizations related to Christianity cannot be regarded as a follower of Christ Jesus and thus cannot enter into Heaven.
In this context, even the Pope who is apparently richer than homeless Americans might not be able to enter into Heaven. This is the most important issue for billions of Christians in the world.
Indeed, Christ Jesus said that none was good except the God.
++++ ++++ ++++Mark 3, King James Version
And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.