The Sacred Text And The Principal Beliefs Of Christianity

Christianity is a faith based religious tradition, of which the follower is considered to be a Christian adherent. Thus, being a living tradition, Christianity is continually subject to change in accordance to the needs of the adherent and reaffirming the Christian tradition within a contemporary context. The aspects, which attribute the present existence of Christianity and its dynamism therein, include sacred texts and writings, ritual and ceremonies, beliefs and believers, and ethics. Ultimately, the aforementioned characteristics strive to form and continually validate answers to the enduring questions of life through a process of change, which simultaneously highlights Christianity as a living tradition.

Christianity is a well-developed religion, which was formed out of Judaism during the time of the first century. There are a multitude of branches within in the religion of Christianity with some of the major ones being Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. Even within the major branches there are even smaller subcategories to which people claim to be their religion of choice. During my research I was able to really find out in greater details more about this marvelous form of religion and why it has the most people of any religion world wide currently adhering to it. With nearly 2.2 billion people claiming to be Christians, Christianity’s beliefs that derive from the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ have stayed true since the formation of their religion. I was fortunate enough to interview Eli Riddle who is a practicing Evangelist and provided me with a vast amount of information about his denomination. Throughout my paper it is my goal to help give a better understanding of the History, Sacred Texts, Worship, Sacraments, Life after Death, as well as a few other intriguing topics covering the broad religion of Christianity while also giving insight about

The Bible is the oldest books that is still not only being currently used, but is a bestseller. Christians believe this Bible are the very words of God given to guide people on how to live. The Bible is made of sixty-six books; thirty-nine in the Old Testament and twenty seven in the New Testament. The New Testament was completed in fifty years. The Bible was written over many years and yet everything that was written fits together perfectly. God chose people who honored Him to write the Bible. He inspired them to write His words. Many of the authors were from Asia and Europe.

The bible is a series of sacred texts and scriptures that derive from Jews and Christians who consider it to be an item of heavenly inspiration and evidential recording of the bond between God and individuals roaming the earth. Several diverse writers did their role in the completion of the Bible. It is considered to be an official text that is different depending on the society or tradition involved. The Christian version of the old testament intersects with the Greek Septuagint and Hebrew version of the bible. The Hebrew Bible is regarded in Judaism by the title of the Tanakh. While, the New Testament is regarded as a series of scripture created by Early Christians and there is a belief that it is typically by Jewish disciples of Christ. These age old Christian Greek literatures involve letters, gospels, and end times predictions. Amid these Christian values, there is

have gone. Locked in the dungeon, shrouded in an all-consuming cold where you will remain until you have paid your full price. Your reward will not be what you expect, but will be what you have earned. You cared not to listen to me. You can listen to the silence of darkness and the weeping and gnashing of teeth. You dwell in confidence now, but you will be left with only sorrow, and you will be filled with dreams of what could have been. All the preparations and schemes were not enough to save you from meeting your end and being destroyed. You took pleasure in adding imaginary winnings and dreamed of a boundless victory you can never have. You received strength in what you believed would be your reward, but you only deluded yourselves. I

Bing gives an in-depth look at “saving faith” and why a defense of believing in Christ is imperative in the foundations of faith alone. One must not only “defend Christ” one must also “defend faith in Christ” In this paper he has taken point on verse by verse stepping stones of what the Doctrine of Salvation is. Not just the bases of metaphorical outcome, but solid exactness that stresses in each aspect Faith and Christ.

In Jesus Christ Fundamentals of Christology, part III is introduced as the Systematic Christology. Roch A. Kereszty, the author of this book, brings to our attention that Christologies have remained within the limits of orthodoxy which means that it managed to persevere the whole mystery rather than deny or distort some essential aspects. Kereszty separates this idea into two different categories of measure the first being objective and the second being subjective. According to Kereszty. The objective criterion is derived from God’s revelation and the subjective criterion is determined by the needs and questions of the contemporary believer as well as the unbeliever. Kereszty did not only separate them into two categories but he also created a theme between them which is both the New Testament and the Fathers: that of communion. This means that the Father created humankind for communion with the son as well as to reveal and share his beauty. However, there is conflict between a desire for self-affirmation and a desire for communing. That Christology takes up and transforms it to the Triune God who fulfills the person with communion. Kereszty central ideas and themes come together and are true because communion can be the center of all ideas which means it’s not only shared with Jesus but with humankind. Jesus is communion and communion is Jesus both physically and spiritually.

The Bible: The sacred book of Christianity, a collection of ancient writings including the books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Throughout this sacred book, stories and life messages are shared by messengers in which are chosen by God, in hopes to bring people to the reality of the glory of God’s Greatness. The big picture is the salvation that God provides for the sin of man, because God is gracious and paid the ultimate price for His people. “God’s law is part of the orderly creation of the world and is fully knowable by humans” (Berg 19). As the story begins, God constructs together the universe.

This author explains how a Christian is justified by faith with the belief in salvation through the blood of Christ. He further defines in his study the origin and development of the Pauline themes which are based on the life and works of Paul with the Romans, Ephesians, and Galatians among others. Among the five highlighted Pauline themes is justification. The rest of the mentioned themes include ‘Lordship of Christ, resurrection, faith, and grace.’ From the themes which majorly discuss the life and death of Christ, justification is presented as the most crucial theme. The author seeks to convey the readers to why justification by faith is important and that it a step to

The four New Testament gospel books, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John form a conclusive and powerful portrait of Jesus Christ as the sent son of God. The four books are not in any way explaining the biography of Christ’s complete life, but rather trying to give the fundamental truth of Christianity, the great truths of the gospel and who Jesus really is. Each of the named gospel writers gives a clear and personal perspective of Christ as guided by the Holy Ghost and the themes that correspond to Jesus. With the exception of the gospel written by John, the other three give some considerable presentation of well-known and familiar accounts and teachings only to be underscored by the distinct teachings and accounts that support their complete thoughts. These thoughts by the three writers are brought to a conclusion by John the Apostle, who interprets the life of Jesus by emphasizing his personhood. Though many writers describe Jesus differently, we will always come to the conclusion that he is God in flesh.

The second part of the Christian Bible is the sacred books of the New Testament. It is the recordings of Jesus and his earliest followers’ lives and teachings. The New Testament only covers several decades unlike the Old Testament, which covers thousands of years. The earliest manuscript we have containing all the books of the New Testament comes from 300 A.D however it included books that are not in the Bible today (Schenck, 2010, p. 27). “The Council of Carthage in A.D. 397 gave the list official approval, accepting these twenty-seven writings as the New Testament” (Schenck, 2010, p. 28). The New Testament is not a single book written by one man, but, rather, twenty-seven books written in Greek by at least eight different inspired men of God from various places. For these books to even be considered part of the New Testament Scriptures, they had to have been verified that they were the inspired work of an apostle or a prophet.

The doctrine or belief that God is actively involved with His creation plays a large role in the way in which people particularly members of the Christian Church and people in general interact with those within a chosen vocation. On a fundamental level, this notion implies a degree of deference, if not outright reverence, that people have for those within a certain vocation. Additionally, this doctrine helps to reinforce the feeling and manifestations of faith in the person participating in a certain vocation, which merely helps to magnify the faith that adherents have to a particular religion. Ultimately, the conception that God is involved with his creations helps to associate some of the beneficent qualities of God towards those of a particular vocation, such as a priest, which serves to provide a divine foundation upon which the various entities and components of the Christian church are based.

The development of Catholic understanding is expressed through Cristian doctrines and features of Catholic communal life. Catholic Christianity raises and attempts to answer questions of ultimate meaning and value through “rule of faith” and Catholic worship. Sacraments are a part of Catholic worship as they are involved in the liturgical life within church. The rule of faith is a community’s measurement of someone’s faith. The kerygma is six discourses that are referred to as “proclamation” and summarize Christian faith (125). Some of the ultimate meaning and value questions include: what is the ultimate meaning of Jesus Christ; what is the ultimate meaning behind baptism; and how is the liturgy a part of Catholic value these questions will be answered through information provided in Cunningham’s text.

The New Testament is an anthology of twenty-seven ancient writings that describe the life of Jesus Christ and the beginning of the Christian Church. This anthology was not written by just one person, but rather, has several authors, most of whom are known and some of whom are not distinctly known. All of these writings are believed to have been written in the first and second centuries AD from roughly 50AD to 125AD(class notes). The New Testament was mainly written in Greek with some small bits of Aramaic (class notes), but has since been translated into various other languages. This group of writings has been used as both a theological and historical document, while there are no clear lines distinguishing the two. It becomes apparent in studying the New Testament that it is a group of texts discussing Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and the origin and spread of Christianity while including a heavy influence of the societies of the authors.

One of the primary convictions of Christianity is that there is trust in the conviction that Jesus rose from the grave and overcame passing and sin. Christians accept that everybody has fallen brief of the wonderfulness of God since of sin and that they can get unceasing salvation by making Jesus Christ their ruler and savior (Kateregga and Shenk 136). Christians moreover accept that The Book of scriptures is the genuine and motivated word of God (Kateregga and Shenk 61). The Book of scriptures bolsters this by saying “All Sacred writing is God-breathed and is valuable for instructing, censuring, rectifying and preparing in exemplary nature, so that the man of