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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April, 28 - Daily Devotions
April Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : 1 Samuel 30 - 1 Chronicles 6 including the books of 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and 2 Kings
The Books of I and II Chronicles tell the same story told in Genesis through II Kings, and end at the same point. They are a rehearsing of all that has gone on before, with special attention to the reign of David, Solomon, and other kings of Judah. I Chronicles is much like II Samuel, dealing with the story of David, with the first nine chapters dealing with genealogies. These genealogies cover the period from Adam to the return of the Jews from captivity.
The author of I Chronicles could very likely have been Ezra , even though we do not know this for certain. The Books of Kings differ from the Books of Chronicles in that Kings gives a parallel account of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms, while Chronicles confines itself to the Southern Kingdom. Chronicles seems to be primarily concerned with the Kingdom of David.
Repetition is very prevalent in I Chronicles, but in God's Holy Word, repetition means importance. We should not neglect this part of God's Word. Even though we might feel the Books of Kings and Chronicles are rather dry reading, they contain the story of God's dealing with His people. We will find in them some of the finest jewels of Scripture.
Don't let Satan rob you of the blessings of these books. Read them carefully and be open to God's Holy Spirit , that He might teach you through these chapters.
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