The name Christian, Christianity, is a name universally adopted in all diversities of churches and sects. It is, however, never given of Elohim to his Church. Therefore in all the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, the term “Christianity” is never used and “Christian” only three times; the prophets never used it. The Holy Ghost who moved them to speak, never mentioned it; and,  though bringing up all the names of the church--- His “sheep,””His own elect”,” His “chosen,””Israel,” Judah,””Jerusalem” ; etc. --  The Messiah never used it. Indeed, he was up in glory some nine years when it was first given (A.D. 41) as a nickname to the saints of Elohim! – “The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch” (Acts xi. 26).
               That city of Antioch was the centre of the church’s assemblage out of Jerusalem; and, as the Elect met on the Sabbath for worship, they were hooted, and groaned at, and stoned, and called, as “a sect everywhere spoken against” (Acts xxviii. 22) ; and derided as followers of a new leader of a new religion, by a fanatic multitude of Jews and Pagans, ignorant of “the Elohim of Israel” as at this day. The word Christianity, is never, as we said, mentioned in the scriptures, and that of Christian only three times, First at Antioch, as we said, A.D. 41, after the Messiah had, nine years before, gone to glory. Secondly, by the ignorant, and lustful, and bloodthirsty Herod Agrippa, twenty years afterwards, A.D. 62.  Herod the son of Esau, the hereditary enemy of the Messiah and his people; and who, ignorant of his guilty nature, said to Paul “Almost thou persuadest me to become a Christian” (Acts xxvi 29); Herod who based his religion on his own debased carnal will as to whether he would be persuaded or not to change his soul, to know and love Elohim. That ignorance of Herod Agrippa and of the Pharisees of Antioch, Peter takes up to comfort the elect as “partakers of the sufferings of the Messiah” in being called “Christians” (I Peter iv 12-14) ; and not to mind the nickname which dishonored the Father, and the Holy Ghost whom he had exalted in the first chapter ; but to delight in their own proper name- “Elect” (chap. i. 1 – 3). The nickname, “Christian,” also dishonored YHWHHOSHUA himself as severing him from the Trinity with whom he is joined throughout the scriptures.