Christianity: Christianity And Christianity
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Christianity is the most widely worshiped religion in the world, with over 2 billion believers backing the group and upholding the overall belief of God. Christians believe that God is there one true deity and that he is their creator. God created the world, he crated mankind in his image, and he shaped everyone and everything to what it is today. He sent his only son Jesus down to earth to die for our sins on the cross so that we could live and forever be forgiven for our sins. The question to this essay is what is the nature of God? What is God like for a Christian believer? Three key beliefs that I will be discussing to explain what God is like for a Christian is: Creator, Trinity/Triune and Saviour/Redeemer. Also a few similarities and differences will be included to show what we do and don’t have in common with religion of Hinduism.
Probably one of the most reverent key beliefs in the whole of Christianity as a religion, is Creator, God is the creator of our lives and our world. God is everything we believe and worship in, for mankind was created in the image of God himself. He created the lands we walk on, he created us, and he created the heavens and everything underneath it that we see today. God spoke this vast universe into being. Written it says in Genesis 1:3 And God said... and it was so. Christians have this undenying belief in God and that he is the almighty and powerful one, he did create this world, he did create us and everything around us. He is this powerful and a holy person to them and in their minds he is the one and only God that they will ever worship, he is pure, as the first of the 10 commandments say ‘Thou shalt no have no other Gods before me”. The lord forgives and gives second chances to those who...
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...Tri means three and Unity means one Tri-Unity cut down to Trinity, which really is three in one, the basic concept of the doctrine that defines it. As a wider implication, a lot of Christians take their God seriously with their beliefs in what the bible says God did. When we come to worship we all come together on one day of the week and have a service and pray. Most Christians will come together on a small Sunday morning service to come together to discuss God and the Bible and to singing to the lord himself and to pray to him. Together we pray not for the Father, not for The Son and not for the Holy Spirit either, but instead we pray for the three combined and working together as one to create this wonderful image of God for us. For the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit as one joined in union with the Christianity population backing them every step of the way.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that christianity is the most widely worshiped religion in the world, with over 2 billion believers backing the group and upholding the overall belief of god.
- Explains that christianity's most reverent belief is that god is the creator of our lives and our world. the lord forgives and gives second chances to those who have sinned.
- Analyzes how genesis 1 grasps the concept of creatio ex nihlo by saying ‘now the earth was formless and empty’ showing that god is omnipotent and has the power to create from nothing.
- Explains that trinity is the christian doctrine that defines god as three consubstantial persons who are connected to god and are god.
- Explains that the word 'trinity' tells us exactly how each individual essence of god comes together to become one in itself.
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- Explains that christians believe in jesus christ and that he is the son of god and the messiah. they believe that humans that commit sin can be reconciled to god through jesus' death and resurrection.
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- Explains that they researched christianity and other religions and found that christ was universal, he was in no way segregational. they lost their job and their practice was closed down.
- Describes how they began to lose their faith and become something completely different. they loved jesus, loved god, and depended on the holy spirit but were no longer religious.
- Describes how they began to see visions of people being burned and on one occassion it was as though they were on fire, breaking their double glazing window to escape, their blood presure was very high.
- Narrates how their mind was full of thoughts of fear, being aware of god in a way that is outside of their faith. they believed god was punishing them for the things they had done in the past.
- Narrates how they had intense visions and feared losing their children. they knew they needed to save themselves and change their life.
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- Describes how they became aware of the kundalini process and all that is beautiful about it. they wanted to find an equivalent in christianity but the dark night of st john the cross was similar.
- Opines that they feel very special and loved by god to choose, little me to be in union with the devine.
- Opines that they have come to know the true meaning of the love of god, found christ to be real, are in awe and realise the free gift of life. they surrender to the almighty and know that their protector, provide, guide and helper is god.
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- Opines that the purification process is painful and involves some kind of suffering, such as bodily pain, loss of material wealth, financial wealth or separation from a loved one.
- Opines that the purification period is difficult and dangerous if one is in total ignorance and those around one are not aware of what is happening.
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