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<p class="p__0">280 million Christians live as a minority. About This Article Is More In-Depth of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a 3rd are Protestant (37%). Orthodox communions make up 12% of the world's Christians. Other Christian groups make up the remainder. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to go beyond 3 billion. According to a 2012 Bench Research Center study, Christianity will stay the world's largest faith in 2050, if current trends continue.</p>
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<p class="p__1">Etymology The Greek word (Christianos), suggesting "follower of Christ", originates from (Christos), implying "greasy one", with an adjectival ending obtained from Latin to signify sticking to, or perhaps belonging to, as in slave ownership. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew (Maa, messiah), suggesting" [one who is] blessed".</p>
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<p class="p__2">The abbreviations Xian and Xtian (and similarly-formed other parts of speech) have been utilized considering that a minimum of the 17th century: reveals a 1634 usage of Xtianity and Xian is seen in a 163438 diary. The word utilizes a similar contraction. Early use The first tape-recorded usage of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11 after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says that "the disciples were called Christians initially in Antioch" (Acts 11:26).</p>
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<p class="p__3">The third and last New Testimony reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4, which exhorts believers: "Yet if [any male suffer] as a Christian, let him not be embarrassed; however let him glorify God on this behalf." (1 Peter 4:16). Kenneth Samuel Wuest holds that all 3 original New Testimony verses' uses show a derisive component in the term Christian to refer to followers of Christ who did not acknowledge the emperor of Rome.</p>
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<p class="p__4">However Peter's obvious endorsement of the term led to its being chosen over "Nazarenes" and the term Christianoi from 1 Peter ends up being the basic term in the Early Church Dads from Ignatius and Polycarp onwards. The earliest events of the term in non-Christian literature consist of Josephus, referring to "the people of Christians, so called from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence with Trajan; and Tacitus, writing near the end of the first century.</p>
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