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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July Scripture Portion for Bible Commentary : Psalms 103 - Isaiah 27 including the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs
Psalm 106 is an historical Psalm, and in it David carefully reviews the history of the nation of Israel from the Red Sea crossing to the entrance into the Promised Land. God blessed the nation of Israel in a tremendous way, yet the people rebelled against Him and demanded those things that were not good for them. When nothing else would suffice, God gave the people the desires of their hearts, but sent leanness to their souls.
Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy." God's plan for spreading the Gospel is through His redeemed children. We who have had the blood of Christ applied to our lives must be faithful in verbally proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
In Romans 1:16 Paul said, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." We should not be ashamed of our salvation. Too many people today who are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb do not say so. God has chosen human beings to be the instruments for sharing the Gospel. When the child of God knows he has been saved from the penalty of sin; that he is being saved from the power of sin; and that some day he will be saved from the very presence of sin, then he ought to tell a lost and dying world about it!
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