what is christianity?
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Christianity is the part of the world which has historically been influenced primarily by self-defined Christians.
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None of these answers make any sense at all, Christianity is self-serving situational rationalization, what a joke.
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Please refer to this site :\nhttp://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity\nYou will find answers to most of your doubts, and get links to other URLs which offer more details, as well !
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Simple answer:\n\nAll religions (except Biblical Christianity) teach that one can reach God on their own merit by performing certain rituals or ceremonies and generally being "good." \n\nChristianity teaches that there is nothing you can do to get to God and that your own merit falls far short of reaching God. The others teach man reaching to God. Christianity teaches God reaching to man.\n\nThose are the similarities.\n\nhope this helps.
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Well, it is a religion.  Some people say that because it has come so far from the true meaning of Christianity, a personal relationship with Jesus.  A religion is something you do religiously, i.e. going to church, doing good things, praying, tithing.  Christianity should be a religion, because we should do these things very often.  But it shouldn't be the religion that defines Christianity itself.\n\nAs far as the athiests, they're as bad as everyone else.  We've all sinned.  That means that no one's perfect.  Anyone can do good and bad things.  The Lord's redeemed are the ones who've accepted Jesus' true gift of salvation from sin.
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Christianity is divided into many Churches. Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Coptic, baptist the list goes on and on. They are essentially the same thing but these are some differences in dogma, tradition and ritual. But in fact all these are just nonsense the division in Christianity was done in the sole purpose of controlling the church and that means money and power.
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An essential part of being a Christian is being a =community=, i.e. the Church.  Christianity is not simply a set of beliefs.  The community of the Church, in all its diversity, has a common history and part of that history is the canonization of its Scriptures.  IOW, at a point in its existance (about 300 years after Christ) the Church came to recognize certain writings as sacred and others as not.  Though this was not universally agreed upon (some parts of the Church recognize the inter-testament books, some times called the Books of the Apocrypha), for the great majority of Christians in the West the canon is closed.\n\nRe. the Gospel of Peter, earlier does not necessarily mean closer to the truth.  FWIW, the Gospel of Thomas is gaining authority among moderate/liberal Christians.\n\nBTW, many of the church "fathers", Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, et al., raised serious questions about what the canon included. \n\nGood question!
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A Christian is someone who has asked Jesus Christ to come into their life & save them from their sinful lifestyle. That person accepts the bible as God's given Word, as inpired by the Holy Spirit. A true Christian tries to follow the laws of God to the best of their ability. They do not pick/choose which laws & rules they will obey. Jesus says (through the Bible) that "if you love me, you will obey what I command" (Jn 14:15). Christianity is also a relationship with God. That means that you communicate both ways. You pray to God & you listen to His word through reading the Bible, going to Church, Christian books/music, and communion with other Christians. The difference between Christianity & every other religious belief is that we don't have to "DO" anything to earn our way to Heaven. Religion is man's attempt to be good enough for God, Christianity is God's attempt to reach man & He did so by sending His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, who lived a perfect life and died for our sins on the cross. His blood washes away all of our sins because he was the perfect man/God. He was the ultimate & perfect sacrifice, & I thank God every day for His mercy.
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Lets take it further. There is only one belief system in the world whose God humbled himself, came to earth, and suffered & died for his followers. And that is why Christianity stands apart from the rest and makes it so unique. See, the other gods demand, demand, demand. But Christianity's God loves and gives and blesses!
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You are absolutely correct! AMEN to that! Christianity is being told all over the world. In fact many from other religions are turning to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Yes, Christianity is the largest community of faith. There are more nations that claim Christianity as their faith than any others.
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Christianity is supposed to be a way of life based on the teachings and life of Jesus.  Very few people actually can be classed as being "Christa in"\n\nUnfortunately there are many that call therm-selves Christian and profess to follow the teachings of Jesus but by their actions they are far from what Jesus taught.\n\nA good place to start is by reading the Bible. (Use several modern versions as some are very highly biased to theological ideas, eg the King James is highly biased) \n\n Talking to  various people the profess Christianity will possibly confuse you even more.  So send me an email.  I can tell you the different ideas and leave it up to you to decide which one you think best describes the teachings of Jesus\n\ngordo_burns@yahoo.com.au
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Buddhism is a philosophy, and so can be compatible with various religious beliefs. Christianity is a belief system, which makes it incompatible with other beliefs.
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Christianity is like Judaism plus some extras.  Plus, Christians believe that after Christ came, the traditional Jewish law of sacrifices and certain other laws were no longer needed; they served a purpose, but Christ fulfilled that purpose once and for all (to atone for sins).  So there are parts of it that Christians also accept and believe, like the 10 commandments and the one God, but they also believe in the divinity of Jesus and his death and resurrection as the ultimate sacrifice.
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Nothing.  In America there is seperation of church and state as long as it is presumed that christianity will always be included.
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Christianity is definitely a religion.
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Christianity is a faith based belief system.  Secularists want it to be translated into their evidence based belief system and it really can't be to their satisfaction.  Of course it seems that since there's no evidence computers can fly together out of nothing one should be able to conclude that the much more complex universe couldn't have either, but that point seems lost on them.