Comparative Religion: Christianity

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Comparative Religion Christianity
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Christianity

• The worlds largest organized religion
• Roughly 2.1 billion followers
• Based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who
  lived 2,000 years ago in modern Israel
• One of the three main Abrahamic faiths

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The Earth
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The Middle East
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Judea (Palestine/Israel)
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Beliefs

• Jesus Christ is the Messiah, as foretold in the
  Old Testament
• He was the son of God, and was sent to save
  humanity from its sins
• He gave his life on the cross to save man

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Jesus of Nazareth
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Jesus

• Very little is known about the first 30 years
• Spent the last 3 years of his life teaching,
  healing, and working miracles
• Had 12 disciples, who followed him in his
  ministry throughout Judea

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Arrest and Crucifixion

• Jesus claimed to speak with the authority of God
• Angered the Jewish Priests of Judea, who
  considered him a revolutionary
• He was turned over to the Roman govt
• Tried as a heretic, and convicted
• Sentenced to death

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The Crucifixion
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The Resurrection

• The Sunday following his death, Jesus appears to
  his female followers
• Mary Magdalene and Another Mary
• Appears to several disciples over several days
• Ascends into heaven to serve with God

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The Ascension
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Justification of Faith

• Through belief in Jesus as the son of God, they
  can have a relationship with God
• Gods forgiveness was granted through the
  crucifixion and resurrection
• The trinity God, Jesus, and the holy spirit

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Christian Denominations

• The Catholic (universal) church consolidated
  power in the early 4th century
• Other Christian beliefs were eliminated
• A single Bible was agreed upon
• Many Christians split with the church in the
  1500s
• Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
• There are many sects within Christianity
• Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Anglican