google “Dawkins scale”
Labels facilitate communication. Words are not perfect but you cannot communicate without them. You just accept the fact that they are always a first approximation only. Avoiding labels is just dishonest obfustication. If you like you can always add modifiers just like I did with that 1.5 on the Dawkins scale. But that too is an approximation which I can explain in more detail when asked.
- Strong Theist: do not question the existence of God. I know He exists.
- Defacto Theist: Cannot know for certain. Live life accordingly.
I am 1.5 because I think questioning the existence of God is necessary for mental health. And yet I say that I know God exist… as well as I know anything. Living your life accordingly is the only meaning of knowledge that isn’t just hot air.
To be sure people have vastly different ideas what being Christian means. But I honestly think I fit the definition according to the the majority of those who call themselves Christian. And to be sure, “Christian” is just word too, distinguishing between different religious beliefs and opposed to other religious beliefs like Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, etc… But then an explanation of how I come to that conclusion would again be more detail to go into after that first approximation. And to that we go on and on about my particular position on a long list of doctrinal questions as even more details to modify the previous approximations.