What
Christians believe
An Introduction to Christianity
Christianity101
- what is Christianity?
Christians base their faith on
Jesus of Nazereth,
who they believe was God incarnate - was fully human (and therefore
suffered all the temptations and trials that we suffer), who
was born, lived and died for the sins of mankind in Israel approximately
2000 years ago.
He was crucified by the Roman government for claiming to be
God (the messiah) 3 days after which he miraculously rose from
the dead.
Was Jesus telling the truth about who he was - did he really
rise from the dead?
. . . if he wasn't, then he
has single handidly led more people astray than any person in
history
(since Christianity is the most widespread religion in the world)
making him a liar, the Bible and its prophacies, a false doctrine
and all the laws and principals based on it over the past 2000
years meaningless. The
questions that are raised by the story of Jesus need to be looked
at honestly and with an open mind if we are to find out wether
Christianity is a cruel hoax or something that is real and will
ultimately affect us all. For starters, did Jesus really exist?
Also, if he was bluffing, why would he knowingly do so when
he knew the penalty would be an excruciating death? Or was he
just deluded? - in which case we must compare what we know about
the
phsycology of such people, with
the things he said and taught.
There
appear to be 4 possible reasons that can fully account for the
above events:
1) Jesus was deluded, lying to himself and the authorities -
he wasnt the son of God.
This is extremely inconsisitent with his teachings and actions
of love that virtually all agree, Christian and non-Christian
were not the teachings of a deluded insane man but a
'good moral teacher'.
2)
So Jesus was just a 'good
moral teacher', but not the Son of God. A
'good
moral teacher' would not knowingly lie
about being the Messiah.
3)
Jesus was purposefully lying about being the Son of God. No
sane person would do this and suffer crucifixtion for something
they knew to be a lie for absolutely no gain.
4) Jesus was telling
the truth , and was God incarnate.
Christians believe that all the evidence of history and archiology
and what we know about phsycology, point to Jesus being who
he said he was, and the ressurection actually
taking
place.
The
gospels and the historical evidence bear out this claim that
Jesus existed and actually rose from the dead. The question
is what will you do with the evidence? It has been God's practice
to give evidence to those who are willing to respond. Christ
appeared to his disciples because they were willing to believe
when given enough evidence. He will not give evidence to those
who refuse to believe.
show
me the evidence!
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resurrection of Jesus Christ | 101Bible
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