What do "Templar" and "Soldiers of Christ" mean?
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The official name of the Knights Templar is "Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon". So the "Soldiers of Christ" you mention is probably just another name for the same group.
Wikipedia has an excellent article on the Knights Templar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar
A biblical reference to us being soldiers of Christ is in 2 Timothy 2. I believe here we are being told to try to please Christ rather than others.
2 Timothy 2:3-4 NIV (emphasis mine)
3 Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer.
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