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.
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June Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Job 12 - Psalm 102
Chapter 15 begins the second cycle of speeches between Job and his "friends." Eliphaz's second speech is recorded here and the controversy between him and Job becomes more heated. He assumes Job is guilty and stands self-condemned. In the latter verses of the chapter Eliphaz describes the wicked and their end.
Chapters 16 and 17 record Job's reply to Eliphaz. In chapter 16:2 he refers to his friends as "miserable comforters." He tells them that God has afflicted him; that trouble upon trouble has overwhelmed him; and wonders how they would react if they were in his place!
Have you ever felt really low and rather than receiving comfort and encouragement from a friend, he said things that seemed to draw you down even further? This was what was happening in Job's life. His friends did not understand his despair and troubles. They did not understand that the Lord was allowing these things to happen to Job, even though Job was a just man.
Many times, when we see things happening in a person's life, as Christians we jump to the conclusion that there is sin in that person's life. This is not always true. We should be very careful and not make the same mistakes Job's friends made. During such a time as Job was going through, he needed the prayers and understanding of his friends, not their criticism.
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