The teacher asked the class: What does it mean to be a Christian. The class, made up

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Question:

The teacher asked the class: ‘What does it mean to be a Christian.”

The class, made up entirely of Christians, raised their hands.

The first student answered: “To be nice.” In addition, the other students added “help each other” and “love one another” to the answer, “nice.”

The teacher responded, “So, according to your definitions, a nice Muslim or a nice Hindu would be Christian?”

Required:

First, are “nice Hindus” Christian? What is missing from the students' answers? Second, why would a classroom of Christians focus on “nice?” How important, in Christian theology, is treating one another? Finally, how does “Free Will” impact Christian theology, especially in terms of the belief in an afterlife…where the good are rewarded and the evil punished?