Read *CUP* Part 2 Section 2, 5.

What is it to be an objective Christian?  What does it look like played out? Christianity as an objective truth will manifest, says Kierkegaard, in an outward, defensive stance.  He says “The task is to become a Christian and to continue being one… [one is not to] defend the whole of Christendom against the Turk— instead [the Christian is to be] protecting one’s own faith against the illusion of the Turk”=Perhaps I have the wrong read on this, but it seems in this case that the message of Christianity for the individual thus must be translated into a polemic instead of an evangelistic message.  If so, this stands quite contrary to the last command of Christ to “make disciples of all nations” If this be the case, Christianity has some major problems within it’s sectarian nature. At what point in this schema do denominational differences become not simply preferential, but rather excommunicable? It's a hard question to answer.  Certainly when there's a difference in passion or subjectivity in relation to God. This doesn't seem to be the whole story though.The problem with a cookie cutter religion is that 1) the goal of the religion is no longer to be changed but to change yourself to fit the mold of it's morality and standards and 2) if you somehow manage to meet the requirements of all that is Christianity, anyone who falls short is a total failure in the whole faith. It looks pretty difficult to build a church, since everyone has to be orthodoxically and orthopraxically perfect (or near there).

            What objectivity does to doctrine is makes it not a set of principles whereby faith is strengthened or explained in part,  but, as Kierkegaard states, “it will be the ‘what’ of faith that decides whether or not one is a Christian”.  In this stream, the Christian must work to bring himself out of error, whereby he sees his fault in doctrine and seeks to conform himself in order to be a Christian.  Nay, he does not conform his doctrine because he is a Christian.  He is corrected in doctrine so that he may maintain his Christianity. It is then, not so important what has gone on in the individual, but rather with the individual (if baptism, doctrine, or another objective truth, act) is that which Christianizes you. Christianity, under this system, is impossible. At any given moment you may flow in and out of Christendom, simply based on if you have purposely or accidentally believed, thought, or acted wrongly. Much can be be said of Kierkegaard's formulation for the subjective faith's rightness or wrongness in formulation; however, Kierkegaard seems to have nailed it on this, in that there is no true possibility of objective Christianity.