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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 Heaven And Hell
November, 13 - Daily Devotions
November Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Luke 23 - I Corinthians 10, including the books of John, Acts, and Romans
In chapter 6 we read of a new problem within the assembly. In chapter 5 it was deceit in the hearts of Ananias and Sapphira; while here it is complaining among the ranks of the believers. Chapter 7 contains the longest single speech in the Book of Acts, and perhaps the most important. This chapter is the turning point in Israel's history, for it records their third murder, and their final rejection of the Kingdom. In his address before the council, Stephen reviews the history of Israel and points out that the nation has always rejected God's chosen leaders when they first appeared, but received them the second time. Both Moses and Joseph were rejected by their brethren the first time, but were accepted the second. This is the very way Israel treated Christ. He was presented to them on earth by John the Baptist and the apostles, but they refused Him. Israel will receive Christ when He appears the second time.
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