The most powerful, influential and largest of all the currently existing major religions of the world, ahead of Buddhism and Islam, Christianity is.The essence of religion, decaying on the so-called church (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and others), as well as many sects, is the veneration and worship one divine being, in other words God-man, whose name - Jesus Christ.Christians believe that He is the true son of God, the Messiah, that he was sent down to earth to save the world and humanity.
religion Christianity originated in distant Palestine in the first century BC.e.In the first years of its existence it had many adherents.The main reason for the rise of Christianity, according to the clergy, was preaching activity of a Jesus Christ, who, being in essence a demigod-poluchelovekom, came to us in human form, in order to bring the truth to the people, and its existence is not really deny even scientists.On the first coming of Christ (second only to the Christian world awaits) wrote four sacred books, called Evangeliyami.V written by his Apostles (Matthew, John and Mark, and Luke, two other disciples of the Apostles Paul and Peter) scriptures tells of the miraculous birth of a boyJesus in the glorious city of Bethlehem, about how he grew up, he became propovedovat.Osnovnymi ideas of his new religious doctrines were: the belief that he, Jesus, is indeed the Messiah, the Son of God that he would be his second coming,the world will end, and the resurrection from the dead.His sermons, he called to love our neighbors and to help the needy.We prove its divine origin and the miracles which he was accompanied by his teachings.Many patients have been healed or by touching it with the word three times he raised the dead, walked on water, turned it into wine and fed five thousand people with only two fish and five cakes.He drove out of the temple in Jerusalem all traders, thus showing that dishonest people have no place in a holy and noble deeds.Then there was the Last Supper, the betrayal of Judas Iscariot, the charge of deliberate blasphemy and flagrant violation of the throne and the death penalty.He died by being crucified on the cross, taking the meal for all the sins of men.Three days later Jesus Christ was resurrected, and then ascended to the afterlife nebo.O religion Christianity says the following: There are two locations, two special spaces that are inaccessible to people with the earthly life.It is heaven and hell.Hell - a place of terrible suffering, located somewhere in the bowels of the earth and heaven - a place of universal bliss, and only God Himself will decide who to send where.
Religion Christianity is based on several dogmas.First - this is what God is one.Second - it is threefold (Father, Son and Holy Spirit).The birth of Jesus took place on a whim of the Holy Spirit, God became incarnate in the Virgin Mary.Jesus was crucified, and then died, redeemed people's sins, and then rose again.At the end of time Christ will come to judge the world, and the dead shall be raised.Divine and human natures are inextricably linked to the image of Jesus Hrista.Opredelennye canons and precepts are all religions of the world, Christianity preaches love God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself.Do not like your neighbor, you can not love God.
Religion, Christianity has its adherents in almost every country, half of all Christians are concentrated in Europe, including Russia, one quarter - in North America, one-sixth - in the South, and considerably less faithful in Africa, Australia and the Middle East.
