Friday, March 11, 2016

What Can You Learn About Christianity Today?

By Patricia Goldman


Christianity. It is the religion that follows not just God, but also Jesus Christ and his teachings. Most people would commonly associate it with Catholicism and other religions revolving around God, but it's not always the case. In many ways, Christianity is different. That's why you have to know how to understand Christianity so you won't be confused or baffled on what it is in the world of religion. As mentioned previously, Christianity is a religion in which it doesn't just believe in God, but also in Jesus Christ along with his writings and teachings. It is almost like Catholicism, but its main focus is Jesus Christ.

Everything about Christianity revolves around Christ; from his birth to his death, from his miracles to his powers and so on and so forth. They have established something known as "Creeds" which are doctrinal confessions and main writings followed by Christians. The creed most followed in the present is the Apostle's Creed which is also used by Catholics. It establishes everything about Jesus such as "being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary".

The Christian worships God according to how it was written. He doesn't do it in any other way; the way God said it should be done should be done that way. This shows that the true Christian is loyal and respectful of the Lord's intentions. Whatever happens to him in life: whether an unfortunate event occurred or a successful event was brought upon, the true Christian has faith in the God and Jesus. He believes it was meant to happen and as such believes that everything happens for a reason. A true Christian strives for a sin-free life. While this is hard to do, the true Christian will do his best to go for a sin-free life but not in a way that it will displease the Lord. He wants to do it accordingly so it still follows the principles of the Bible.

Other religions have their own false prophets too like in Islam. A prophet is a false prophet if he comes after Muhammad because it has already been established Muhammad is the true and final prophet. In Judaism, someone is considered a false prophet if he makes too-good-to-be-true prophecies and turn you away from your faith with God and therefore must be punished to death for such rebellion.

In the world today, there are many false prophets out there. You'll see them on TV: pastors claiming God talked to them so they can be presidents, ordinary people who have the hands of God and many more. Now even false prophets have access to the internet so it's easy for them to get more people to believe in them by spreading their messages online. Just Google some prophets and you'll see so many websites that have "End of the World" prophecy. Youtube has its own false prophets too. No matter what you do, false prophets will always come up everywhere. They'll do everything in their power to make their own mark in people's minds. What you can do is to stay true to your beliefs and ideals and shun whatever a false prophet wants you to believe.




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