Christianity, Christianity And Christianity

Christians believe that the Bible is the complete Word of God, and they try their hardest to live according to everything it says. Christians believe that a baby is born into sin, and can only be saved and accepted into Heaven by accepting Jesus by its own will. Some denominations also rely on good works, baptism, and church sacraments to get you into Heaven. The Christian term “saved” means you have confessed your sins to either God, or a priest, and you have repented from your sinning ways. Different denominations have different looks on who Jesus really was.

Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches and many Protestant churches accept this doctrine as the central teaching of Christianity. Some Christians regard Jesus as a great but human teacher. However, most Christians view Jesus as God incarnate--that is, a divine being who took on the human appearance and characteristics of a man. They believe that Jesus is the Savior who died to save humanity from sin. According to this view, Jesus' death made salvation and eternal life possible for others.

The key is that the New Testament writers believed that Jesus was the Messiah, and so these predictions of the Hebrew Bible, according to the New Testament writers, correspond to Jesus’ life. Typology is the relationship between an event in the Hebrew Bible and another event in the Christian New Testament. The New Testament writer of John, for instance, believed the near-sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis was to foreshadow the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. WORKS CITED NIV Study Bible. 3rd ed.

Jesus rarely speaks of himself as being the Messiah but his words and actions represent his authenticity as God’s son in a powerful way (Mueller 117). John starts his Gospel with “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God” ... ... middle of paper ... ...hope, and belief in Jesus Christ. One proof of this claim is that Christianity is the largest religion in the world today having millions of followers (“Religion”). The death of Jesus on the cross certainly revealed him as a human but the deeper meaning of his words, actions, and deeds ultimately signify his divinity.

However, after having a vision in which Jesus came to him, he switched his name to Paul and began believing that Christianity was the religion God wanted everyone in the world to follow. As a result, he built many churches and went on to become a very important Christian leader. The Christian religion has many key beliefs. First, Christians are monotheistic, believing in only one god. Second, they believe in the Holy Trinity, which means that their one god has three parts.

Jesus As the Son of God When Jesus rose from the dead the disciples realized that they needed new ways of describing him to reflect his amazing power and holiness. They scoured the Hebrew and Jewish scriptures looking for something appropriate to call him by and came up with titles such as "Messiah", "Son of Man", "Son of David" and "Son of God". In the end Son of God became the most popular of these titles so that is what he became best known as. It is therefore the subject of my coursework. What Does It Mean When Christians Talk About Jesus As Son of God In the Old Testament, the words "Son of God" often meant someone who had a special relationship with God.

A core teaching found throughout Christianity. However, the Bible is not taken into literal ideology, but in a more figurative manner. Another central figure in Christian belief is Jesus, found in the Trinity as the Son of God. However, the Catholics believe that He is an incarnation of God rather than a literal son of God. It is of Christian belief that Jesus is fully God and man, with a divine and human will found through the Biblical quote in John 10:30 “I and My Father are one.”.

This helped to stamp out heresies in the church, and help Christianity to pick up even more. At this time the emperor was a man by the name of Constantine. He was the first Roman emperor who converted to Christianity. The most significant thing about this is he made Christianity the official religion of his empire. Christianity went from being a minority sect, to the religion of the most powerful empire in the world.

We should pray because God calls on us to be faithful and obedient to him. Sometimes we pray to God without even realizing it. There are so many things in this world that connect us to God that we don’t even know about. The spreading of good news is what we do when we share the good that Christ has done for us. It is a personal calling for each person to gladly accept him from an eternity in hell and to show that he cares for us by rescuing us from Satan’s corruptions.

The Nature of the Kingdom as it is Presented in Luke's Gospel One of Luke's main interests in Jesus was his preaching on the Kingdom of God. As Luke was arguably a gentile, he wanted to prove to all people that the Kingdom was present and that everyone is welcome to become a member. However what Luke wrote about the kingdom in some areas did contradict the Jews expectations. For example, Jewish understanding of the kingdom was that a divine rule would be the counterpart of the earthly kingship. This goes back to Old Testament when the prophet Samuel first anointed the first Jewish King Saul, as so was King David.