Kennede Reese Chapter 13 Christianity 1. Define Christianity’s core doctrines. b. Christianity has two core doctrines. The first core doctrine is the Incarnation‚ which asserts that Christ is both fully divine and fully human. The second doctrine is the Trinity‚ which holds that God consists of three persons: Father‚ Son‚ and the Holy Spirit. 2. What are the literal and symbolic meanings of the Greek word ixthus? a. The Greek word for fish is the ixthus‚ each letter that begins
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Followers of Jesus‚ a Jewish man‚ started a new religion‚ Christianity. Christianity started to grow during the Pax Romana‚ a period of peace in Rome. The Pax Romana lasted from 27 B.C.E to 180 C.E. and during it government improved‚ literature prospered‚ engineering improved‚ and laws formed. The peace during the Pax Romana provided a time for Christianity to rise. Christianity spread rapidly and successfully in the 1st through 3rd centuries because it appealed to many people‚ missionaries could
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Christianity -believes in TRINITY- God the Father‚ God The Son and God the Holy Spirit -believes in the worship of 1 God (God has 3 personages) -believes in spiritual; dev of man’s relationship with God as compared to physical & cognitive development -Bible is the sacred book for Christians-guide man to live a moral‚ bright excellent life & avoid sins -divided into Old testament & New Testament Old Testament -tells about how God created the world in 6 days & rested on the 7th day -plays attention
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Christianity Christianity is a religion based on the life‚ death and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth‚ also known as Jesus Christ as presented in the canonical gospels and other New Testament writings. Starting in the mid first century‚ Christianity is the most popular religion in the world accounting for a third of the world’s population with over two billion followers; the majority of which are living in America and Europe. The main contributing factor as to being a living and dynamic religion
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Rise Expansion of Christianity No one can talk about world civilization without paid a close attention to the parts that play by churches. Either Christianity or Islam they influence humanity life. To illustrate‚ centuries after‚ this dramatic incident was thought to mark the beginning of the schism between the Latin and the Greek churches‚ a division that still separates Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox (Greek‚ Russian‚ and so on). Now‚ however‚ no big scholar maintains that the schism
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In the sacrifice of Jesus Christ‚ God demonstrates that he is just even when he declares sinners to be just. Galatians is Paul’s manifesto of freedom to the young church that he started in Asia Minor (Turkey). Paul communicates plainly that Christianity‚ with its emphasis on faith in Christ‚ is antithetical to religion which approaches God based on good
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Christianity: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth God made the earth as well as the sun‚ moon and stars. He created plants‚ animals‚ man and woman. He saw that his work was good and he rested after the heavens and the earth were finished. Man disobeyed God The first man and woman God made were named Adam and Eve. Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden and God commanded him that he could eat of any tree in the garden except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
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Hinduism and Christianity: Parallels Abound Steven Williams World Religion Professor A. Bisson November 28‚ 2010 Hinduism and Christianity are two of the largest religions in the world today with nearly half of the world’s population claiming one of the two as their own. Without a doubt‚ both religions have been extremely influential in the world. In the minds of most‚ this is about as far as the similarities between Hinduism and Christianity go; however‚ the fact is that the two
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Introduction Since the crucifixion of Jesus‚ opponents of Christianity have directly criticized the religion’s foundation‚ attempting to belie the historicity of Christ’s physical resurrection. Aiming to nullify Christianity and confute the prospect of supernatural intervention or divine involvement‚ skeptics and opponents of Christianity continually disseminate naturalistic alternatives‚ or conspiracy theories‚ to contradict the resurrection account. One popular notion reasons against the validity
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Essay Question 1 According to our lecture notes and Frontline’s “From Jesus to Christ” there exist similarities between Christianity and Mithraism‚ the Essenes‚ Pharisees and Sadducees. For example in comparison with the Mithraism‚ Christianity also believes that Jesus (Messiah) was born from a virgin mother and that shepherds attended his birth. Both Mithraism and Christianity believed that there was a hell and a heaven and that good versus evil existed. These two religions worship on Sundays
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