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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May, 5 - Daily Devotions
May Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : 1 Chronicles 7 - Job 11 including the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther
Israel had become a powerful nation. David had been elevated by the Lord to a great place of responsibility. As a result, David and the people became proud. David had forgotten that all the glory of the nation had come from the Lord. The lust of the flesh had led David to commit an awful sin with Bathsheba. Now, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life have urged him to number the people and glory in his greatness.
David's sin was not in numbering the people. His sin was the motive which led him to number the people. His only purpose for numbering the people was to glory in himself. God never allows this. The Lord sent the pestilence. The whole nation of Israel paid for David's sin. This is a principle of life which cannot be escaped. Whenever a Christian sins other people are always hurt. "No man liveth unto himself." I recently heard an alcoholic say, "All the harm I do, I do to myself." This is not true. When a man sins, he hurts his wife and children. He hurts the society in which he lives. He grieves the Lord. He damages his own body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
God's grace is greater than all our sin. When David and the elders of Israel fell upon their faces in genuine repentance, God gave deliverance. The Lord instructed them to make a sacrifice on Ornan's threshing-floor. God accepted the sacrifice because it was made according to His Word. The judgment upon the people ceased.
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