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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February, 3 - Daily Devotions
February Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Leviticus 4 - Deuteronomy 24 including the book of Numbers
In chapter 10 Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, offer strange fire to the Lord. They offered this fire in self-will, without seeking or obeying God's directive in the matter. Their deaths were warnings against treating God's ordinances lightly and distorting His commandments concerning offerings. The seriousness of the sin is emphasized not only by the sudden death of the guilty, but by the command not to mourn for them.
God does not allow disobedience to His commands without punishment for that disobedience. When we, as children of God, continually disobey Him, we must be chastised. Nadab and Abihu were priests, yet God judged them for their disobedience. The severity of His judgment should be a lesson to every child of God.
Leviticus, as a manual of holiness, now sets forth the truth that holiness is required of God's redeemed people. The preflood distinction between clean and unclean animals (Genesis 7:2), included in the Mosaic Law, was based partly on reasons of physical health and religious principles, and was designed to mark Israel's separation from other people. God said, "Be ye holy; for I am holy." We are told in Romans 12:1, to "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Why? Because our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 6:19), and it is God's desire that we not only be separated, but that we be vessels, clean and meet for the Master's use.
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