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Welcome to WikiChristian A encyclopedia and discussion forum for all Christians to share their faith with 350,006 pages and over a million edits. Statement of Faith | Vision Special Links: Bible Referencing | Page Layout & Writing Guide | Senior Editors | WikiChristian Needs Your Help! What is Christianity? Christianity is about God reaching out his hand in friendship to mankind. Christians believe that the whole world and everything in it was created by God. God is a personal being, a living God who is three, yet one: Father, Son and Spirit, just as we human beings have body, mind and soul! (see the Trinity). The Bible says God created people in his image, to love him. Yet every person has rebelled against God and sinned. Yet instead of turning his back on us, God became a man, Jesus, who most scholars believe was born about the year 4 BC and lived among us. He taught a message of love throughout Palestine but public opinion turned against him and he was executed as a young man. He died because of us - the death that we should have died. He was crucified on a cross, but he rose from the dead, and now calls us to trust him, to love him and to repent of our rebellion. If we do this, then we our relationship with God becomes restored and we will live forever with God. Many non-Christians may think that being a Christian is about belonging to a particular church or following a certain set of rule. Most Christians however would agree that at its root, being a Christian means to be in a living relationship with Jesus. Who is God? 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The people of Ancient Gaul, now known as France, founded the nation called Galatia. These war-like tribes had migrated across Europe into Asia Minor several centuries before the Christian era. The Word Galatia means, "the coming of the Gauls." About a quarter of a century before Christ was born, the Romans made Galatia a part of one of their larger provinces, and called the entire area Galatia. Paul had founded the churches at Galatia about a.d. 45-48. He had then revisited these churches on his second missionary journey about a.d. 50, and again on his third missionary journey about a.d. 54. Paul's work had been extremely successful in Galatia, and great multitudes, mostly Gentiles, had accepted Christ. Some time after Paul left, certain Jewish teachers began teaching that the Gentiles could not be Christians without keeping the Law of Moses. Many of these Galatian Christians gave heed to these teachings and were confused concerning law and grace. Paul's writings to these churches were to straighten out the Christians on these things. In chapters 1 and 2 the key Word is "Gospel." It is found ten times in these few verses. Paul is striving to show that his calling came directly from Christ and not from men. Paul was not preaching a second-hand Gospel, but a first-hand message directly from the Lord. In chapter 1:6-10 Paul seems to be very disturbed that the Christians were so quickly removed from the teachings he had brought to them. They had received the Gospel so enthusiastically, and now false teachers had come to their cities and they had also believed them. Paul explains in verse 7 that there are people who will trouble you and pervert the Gospel of Christ. In verse 8 he says that anyone who would preach any Gospel other than the Gospel he preached, should be accursed. Paul repeats that statement in verse 9. Today, in our churches, we have similar problems with the perversion of the Gospel. We have many people who are preaching only a partial Gospel, and combining works, grace, and many false doctrines. God's Word to them, as to the Galatians, is to let them be accursed. The grace of God, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. Chapter 2:16 again explains that man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. How foolish it is for anyone to believe that he can be good enough to go to heaven without receiving Christ. Daily Devotions - Commentary on The Entire Bible in 365 Days