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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Devotion Of The Day
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 Heaven And Hell
August, 10 - Daily Devotions
August Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Isaiah 28 - Ezekiel 11, including the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations
The name "Jeremiah" means "whom Jehovah appoints." Apart from this appointment by God, certainly this prophet could not have continued to minister faithfully. He was of the priestly line and lived in the priest's city of Anathoth. Apparently he had some personal wealth because he was able to purchase real estate and even hire a scribe. He was called to the ministry when he was a child, undoubtedly in his teens.
Jeremiah ministered during the last 40 years of Judah 's history, from the 13th year of Josiah to the destruction of Jerusalem. He lived to see his beloved nation go down into sin, war, and judgment; yet through it all he was faithful to preach God's Word.
When Jeremiah began his ministry, Assyria was the leading power in the world; but Egypt and Babylon were rapidly gaining strength. In 607 b.c., the Babylonians took Nineveh and destroyed the power of Assyria. Babylon then turned to Judah , and Judah 's politicians advised the kings to ask Egypt for help. Jeremiah was always against an Egyptian alliance. He knew that God's people should not seek help from the world. He knew Judah 's only hope was in the Lord; but her sins were so great that the nation had lost the blessing of God. Babylon did finally capture Judah and took Jerusalem. Jeremiah wrote "Lamentations" to commemorate the death of the Holy City.
Chapter 1 gives the call of Jeremiah. Like Moses, he was reluctant to accept the responsibility, but did succumb to God's call. Jeremiah's first message was to a backslidden nation. It was threefold. He reminded Israel of God's wonderful blessings and deliverance; he rebuked them for forsaking God' and then he accuses them of following other Gods. Verse 13 of chapter 2 refers to the people forsaking the Word of God, "the fountain of living waters" and following after false Gods, "broken cisterns."
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