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 Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Leviticus 4 - Deuteronomy 24 including the book of Numbers
Again in chapter 16 we have the principal annual feasts covered. The Passover (verses 1-8); the Feast of Weeks (verses 9-12); and the Feast of the Tabernacle (verses 13-17). Then in verses 18-22 God assures the people that the judges and officers that are to judge the tribes will give the people just judgment.
In verse 1 of chapter 17 we notice the offerings that were sacrificed to the Lord must be unblemished or they were an abomination unto the Lord. Verses 2-7 cover the condemnation of all idolators. Their condemnation was death by stoning, before witnesses. God tells the people in verses 14-20 that "when thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shall possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me." The kingdom came some 400 years later (see I Samuel 8). Samuel told the people that in asking for a king they were rejecting God. This is not a contradiction, it is just the fact that God foreknew that they would want a king. He is not approving their actions here in Deuteronomy, but He is foretelling them that generations later they would desire a king over them and would reject the form of government which God had given to them.
Chapter 18 contains one of the most specific predictions of Christ found in the Old Testament. Jesus Himself understood it (John 5:46) and so did Peter (Acts 3:22).
The Hebrew nation was being founded of God as the medium through which one day all nations would be blessed. The statement concerning the Messiah definitely tells us that we would be given another Prophet (Jesus, Who would bear God's message to all nations). Judaism was to be superseded by Christianity (the day of grace). God's plan of salvation is found in Ephesians 2:8,9: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." We are not saved by keeping the Law, but by faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, who completely fulfilled the Law.
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