Believers
BELIEVERS
An appellation given, toward the close of the first century, to those Christians who had been admitted into the church by baptism, and instructed in all the mysteries of religion. They were thus called in contradistinction to the catechumens who had not been baptized, and were debarred from those privileges. Among us it is often used synonymously with Christian.
See CHRISTIAN.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
Believers
be-levers (in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) of Act 5:14, for , posteuontes, the Revised Version, margin believing; in the King James Version of 1Ti 4:12 for , hoi pisto, the Revised Version (British and American) them that believe): Equivalent phrases, they (he, she) that believe (for , hoi pepisteukotes; , hoi pisteuontes; (adj.), , pistos, etc.) occur frequently as a regular description of those who professed their faith in Christ, and attached themselves to the Christian church. The one essential condition of admission into the Christian community was, that men should believe in Jesus Christ (Act 16:31). The actual experiences of the men Thus denoted varied with all the possible degrees and modifications of FAITH (which see). Believers are nowhere in the New Testament distinguished as a subordinate class from the Christians who know as in the Gnostic antithesis of pistiko and gnostiko, believers and knowers.