The Rituals Of Christianity And The Old Testament

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Christianity is the world’s largest religion with about 2.1 billion followers. In the religion of Christianity, people believe that there is one creator, God. The son of God, Jesus Christ, brought the world messages from God and His teachings. These messages have stayed with people through the teachings of the Bible. Christianity has also developed in its practices and rituals.

The Bible has two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is the Hebrew Bible, the scriptures of the Jewish faith, written at different times between and 165 BC. The New Testament books were written by Christians in the first century AD. The Hebrew Bible has 39 books, written over long time periods, and is the literary archive of the nation

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