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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November, 7 - Daily Devotions
November Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Luke 23 - I Corinthians 10, including the books of John, Acts, and Romans
In chapter 12 John records the final events in Christ's public ministry before the cross. Verses 35 and 36 warn against letting the opportunity for salvation pass by. John says (verse 36b), "These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them." In the verses that follow, John explains why Christ hid Himself and why the Jews were condemned. They had rejected the evidence (verse 37). The Light had been shining for more than three years, as Christ walked here on this earth and preached to them, yet they refused to believe and follow that Light.
Verse 48 gives the basis of all future judgment against mankind. "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." God has given us His wonderful Word for instructions in how to prepare to live and die. If we fail to follow these instructions, that same Word will judge us in the last day.
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