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Welcome to WikiChristian A encyclopedia and discussion forum for all Christians to share their faith with 349,997 pages and over a million edits. Statement of Faith | Vision Special Links: Bible Referencing | Page Layout & Writing Guide | Senior Editors | WikiChristian Needs Your Help! 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. Who is God? 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Jotham and Hezekiah were good kings who helped the nation, but Ahaz was a wicked man who sold the nation into idolatry. Thus the great prophet Micah saw his nation go through both good and bad times. The Book of Micah is composed of three sermons preached to the people, and each message begins with the word, "Hear." The theme of chapters 1 and 2 is the coming judgment of God. God had spoken to Micah and warned him that the sins of the people were so great that He must send judgment. He names the capital cities--Jerusalem, the capital of Judah, the Southern Kingdom; and Samaria, the capital of Israel, the Northern Kingdom (chapter 1). In fact, in his first message, Micah names twelve cities and points out their sins, which were polluting the whole nation. In chapter 1:5 God names the sin of idolatry that was being committed by the people. They insisted on worshiping the works of their own hands. In chapter 2:1 we see the sin of covetousness. The people were not only covetous, but used illegal means to get what they wanted. Verse 2 says they used fraud, threats, and violence. The rich took advantage of the poor, and the rulers did not follow the Word of God. Micah 's heart was broken when he heard the awful message of judgment from God. He wept and mourned, then he sent a personal message to each of the wicked cities, warning them that the day of God's wrath was imminent. The people reacted to Micah 's warnings by trying to stop him from preaching. But Micah continued to preach as the Spirit of God compelled him to do. He knew the people did not want to hear his preaching; they preferred that of their drunken false prophets who lived as wickedly as they did. In chapter 4 Micah 's preaching turns from judgment to hope. His message is one of hope for future peace on the earth, with righteousness reigning supreme. He explains in our reading tomorrow that peace would be a reality because the Deliverer would come. 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