What is Christianity

**Nøz** · 02-17-2007, 05:31 AM

Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament.Christians believe Jesus to be the Son of God and the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament. With an estimated 2.1 billion adherents in 2001, Christianity is the world's largest religion.It is the predominant religion in Europe, the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Philippine Islands, Australia, and New Zealand (see Christianity by country). It is also growing rapidly in Asia, particularly in China and South Korea.

Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect,and shares many religious texts with Judaism, specifically the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament (see Judeo-Christian). Like Judaism and Islam, Christianity is classified as an Abrahamic religion. Some Christians consider Christianity to have superseded Judaism, because of the conviction that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Others believe that Christianity has been grafted on to Israel, and that Judaism remains relevant as the religion of God's chosen people. The name "Christian" (Greek Χριστιανός Strong's G5546) was first applied to the disciples in Antioch, as recorded in Acts 11:26. The earliest recorded use of the term Christianity (Greek Χριστιανισμός) is by Ignatius of Antioch.

Taken from: Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

02-24-2007, 08:52 PM

Is that it? I mean you sound like you know a lot about Christianity...can you really define what the role of something is by just it's topical definition? In other words: what is the function of Christianity? What is the Church for that matter and what does the Bible have to do with it...

04-09-2007, 06:22 PM

Christianity is having a relationship with Christ [who is our only connection to God]. The bible is the text provided to inform us of the way we should live our life, the life of Christ, the history of some of the followers of Christs and to give us an idea of what is to come. There are many different denominations which fall under christianity and a lot of people believe that theirs is right and all the others are wrong when the truth is, a relationship with Christ is different with every individual. Just like my sister and I both have a relationship with our mom and both love her dearly yet our relationships are completely different. It does not mean one of us is wrong and the other is right. Some denominations are strict with their rules while others have a greater tolerance. I do certian things that some other christians ma criticise me for and claim that I am not a christian because of it but if I do what I do and it does not affect my relationship with Christ then I don't see a problem with it. If someone else does the same thing and it affects their relationship then maybe they shouldn't be doing it.

Some people correctly claim that christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship. That's as simple as I can put it.

**Nøz** · 04-09-2007, 06:32 PM

The information that is posted above by me was taken from Wikipedia.com.
As for what you guys believe it to be thats your opinion and I do not wish to start a discussing on peoples opinions.
So please unless you have information to add that is valid and not something you feel to be true don't post in this topic.

Germanboi · 06-10-2008, 09:58 PM

Does a question count? I hope it does because I wondering if you could post how many different sects there are to Christianity. Catholism, Baptist, Mormon, Lutheran, Born again Christian?!?!? I do not know of all of them and I think it would be cool to have them listed on here...if it is no trouble to you?!?! Or could you direct me to a site with a list of them?

**Ristaron** · 06-10-2008, 11:52 PM

There are new denominations being born every day. People can't agree on interpretations so they create new sects that believe different things. Someone did a count back around 2,000 AD that identified 34,000 denominations of Protestantism alone. Criticism of the ambiguity of the Bible aside, the prominent denominations are as follows:

Roman Catholic (over half of all Christians)
Protestant (Lutheran, Baptist, Calvinist, etc)
Anglican (technically classified as a Protestant denomination, but differs considerably in several areas that lead me to classify it differently)
Mormon
Jehova's Witness
Non-trinitarian (Gnostic, Arian, Unitarian, etc)

Like I said, there are too many denominations to list them all. Nor do I have any intention of trying...

P.S. In case anybody is confused, "Arianism" as per the Non-trinitarian denomination refers to the teachings of Arius in Alexandria in the 4th century AD before he was declared a heretic by the Council of Nicaea. Not to be confused with Hitler's Aryanism; that was a pseudo-anthropological movement propagated in the 19th and 20th centuries by Indo-Europeans seeking to firmly establish their superiority over other ethnicities in biological terms in order to vindicate their military conquests.