But was she a Christian?

Christian minister's wife kills husband, runs off with kids.

A significant portion of Christians feel authorized to pronounce who is and who is not also a Christian.

Classic case is in response to P6's coverage of the story.
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I like to inform you that the poeple who protray them selfs as christians in comit these crimes are not christian. If it could be for people that would be able to see the true diffrence in these people and call them for what thay are and quit putting them in a place or labeling them with improper labels as to let other people think of what you inplay them to be.

I know that a true christian would not be able to comit to such things and a true christian would be able to know the differance between the two also.

The problem here is insecurity by "Tommy (not verified)". Tommy thinks that we can draw generalizations about Christians, and he would like to exclude, in an absolute sense, murder from those generalizations.

It's a classic case of misunderstanding generalizations. Generalizations aren't absolute, ever. They might not apply to the case in front of you right now.

I do believe we can make generalizations about Christians. I'm not a Christian myself, but I know many Christians, and know them well. Christians are not murders is an accurate generalization.

Let's go one more step: people are not murderers. It takes a person way off track to have the capability to pull the trigger. A person who can disregard the sick, painful feeling that blocks most of us from murder. But when someone does murder, it doesn't remove their humanity. Nor does it remove their Christianity, should they be Christian.