christianity

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Christianity is a Monotheistic religion that is about the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings. "This is the world's biggest religion with about 2.1 billion followers worldwide." Christians get their knowledge, wisdom, guidance, strength, help and their needs in a holy book called "the bible".  The community of Christians is called "The Church" and the building where the Christians go to is called "the church".

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Christianity, major religion, stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century AD. It has become the largest of the world’s religions. Geographically the most widely diffused of all faiths, it has a constituency of more than 2 billion believers. Its largest groups are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Protestant churches; in addition to these churches there are several independent churches of Eastern Christianity as well as numerous sects throughout the world. See also Eastern Orthodoxy; Roman Catholicism; and Protestantism.

 

Christianity at a glance

Gothic stone facade of Westminster Abbey, a Christian place of worship

Christianity is the most popular religion in the world with over 2 billion adherents. 42 million Britons see themselves as nominally Christian, and there are 6 million who are actively practising.

 

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Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament.

Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Christians believe that God sent his Son to earth to save humanity from the consequences of its sins.

One of the most important concepts in Christianity is that of Jesus giving his life on the Cross (the Crucifixion) and rising from the dead on the third day (the Resurrection).

Christians believe that there is only one God, but that there are three elements to this one God:

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• God the Father

• God the Son

• The Holy Spirit

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Christians worship in churches.

Their spiritual leaders are called priests or ministers.

The Christian holy book is the Bible, and consists of the Old and New Testaments.

Christian holy days such as Easter and Christmas are important milestones in the Western secular calendar

 

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The Holy Trinity

Other ways of referring to the Trinity are the Triune God and the Three-in-One.

The Trinity is a controversial doctrine; many Christians admit they don't understand it, while many more Christians don't understand it but think they do. The Holy Trinity is composed of The Father - The Son- and the Holy Spirit.

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The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious'.

 

The Christian Bible has two sections, the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is the original Hebrew Bible, the sacred scriptures of the Jewish faith, written at different times between about 1200 and 165 BC. The New Testament books were written by Christians in the first century AD.

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Christian Beliefs:

• the assumption of Mary 

• Creation and intelligent design

• Immaculate conception,

• original sin

• The death and resurrection of Jesus

• End times

• the liberation theology

• The trinity

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