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.
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August Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Isaiah 28 - Ezekiel 11, including the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations
Ezekiel was a prophet of the captivity. He was carried to Babylon in 597 b.c., eleven years before Jerusalem was destroyed. He was the son of a Zadokite priest. His wife died the day the siege of Jerusalem began.
Ezekiel 's prophetic ministry began in the fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile, and continued until at least April, 571 b.c. As we read the Book of Ezekiel we will notice a striking resemblance to the Book of the Revelation. While Jeremiah was in Palestine prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem, Ezekiel , his younger contemporary, was in Babylon, declaring the same fate for the apostate city.
Ezekiel 's ministry was principally to the exiles, and his messages had a large note of consolation in them. He showed his suffering colleagues that the Lord was justified in sending His people into captivity. His ministry centered in showing the preventive and corrective nature of God's chastenings, that His people might "know that He is God." This expression is found many times throughout the book.
In chapters 1--3 God's glory is revealed to Ezekiel. Ezekiel was a priest in captivity, and thus unable to exercise his ministry, since he was away from the Temple and the sacred altar. But God opened the heavens to him and called him to be a prophet. He had been in captivity for five years when his call came. It was Ezekiel 's task to tell the people that God was going to destroy Jerusalem, not Babylon, but that there would be a day when the glorious restoration of the people and the Temple would come to pass. The phrase, "The Word of the Lord came," is used 49 times in this book. How wonderful to know that God's Word is never far from God's people.
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