A Comparative Study on Christianity vs Jehovah’s Witnesses Christianity The most popular religion in the world is Christianity, which is centered on God and Jesus Christ. Christianity has about 2.1 billion followers worldwide. The Bible is the Word of God, It is God (St. John 1:1-2) . Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah that was promised in the Old Testament. They believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that God sent His only Son (Jesus) to earth to save humankind from the penalty of their sins.
He is still living, but he is currently 83 years old. While he may not be so famous that any random person on the street would know him, he is well-known among Christians for the way he has followed God’s great commission of spreading the gospel and accomplished what seemed to be impossible. Brother Andrew is my hero and one of the greatest Christian heroes of the twentieth century, demonstrating bravery in the face of imprisonment behind the iron curtain, obedience to God’s calling on his life to smuggle bibles into Communist countries during the cold war, and complete faith in God’s ability to perform miracles to accomplish distributing Bibles and spreading the gospel to areas of the world where Christianity is forbidden. Brother Andrew was born in the Netherlands in 1928 (Brother Andrew). He grew to adulthood without being a Christian, although his mother was a devout Christian.
This doctrine was rejected by orthodox Christians. Arianism is the belief that Jesus is superior to the rest of creation but is less divine than God, this making Jesus not actually God. The death and resurrection of Jesus has key beliefs within it. These include that Jesus died for our sins, the reflections on the death of Jesus, the belief of the resurrection is a fundamental tenet of Christianity and the nature of risen Jesus. The belief that Jesus died on the cross for our sins was initiated as Jesus promoted he was sent to Earth by God to save humankind.
These commissions have little in common, which indicates that they have been created by the individual evangelists to express their conception of the future of the Jesus movement. As a consequence, they cannot be traced back to Jesus" (Funk 1993:270). Despite this and views from other scholars, Christians today still look to fulfil the great commission and help spread the Gospel of Christ around the globe. Preterists believe that the great commission was already fulfilled by the first century disciples. They base this belief on several pieces of scripture which claim that the Gospel was preached everywhere.
Due to Quanah Parkers near death experience and his healing by the Carrizo Coahuilatesan Indians he believed the peyote medicine was sacred and given to the people by the creator. Peyote religion is believed to be one of the first truly American religions based on Christianity. Quanah Parker was most notorious for his teachings about spirituality of the Native American church. One of his famous teachings was” The white man goes into his church and talks about Jesus, the Indian go into their tipi and talk with Jesus.” In the era of Quanah Parker many tribes adopted the peyote religion, but it was never the traditional religion of Native Americans. Peyote religion was created on the vision of Jesus by Quanah Parke (Lone star internet).
Joseph Smith was the founder of the Mormon Church when polygamy was officially part of the religion. He began practicing polygamy before he preached it. After marrying his second wife behind the back of his first, Smith started to preach that the rightness of things that gave him joy meant that he couldn’t see having more than one wife as sinful. It was estimated that Smith had somewhere around fifty wives. (Jeffs, Lost Boy 3) Jeffs explains the ways of polygamist
Unitarianists believed that God manifested himself in only one person instead of the orthodox Holy Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit). Unitarianism stressed free will contrastly to predestination and put weight on human goodness instead repugnance. The Second Great Awakening was the result of these changing creeds. The Second Great Awakening essentially revitalized religion in America. Masses of sometimes 25,000 people would gather too repent their sins under an zealous preacher for several days.
Lewis himself claims that he never intended to write a Christian message for children to more coherently understand the Gospel; although, he admits that once Aslan emerged into Narnia, he not only ‘pulled’ the story together, but he also ‘pulled’ the other six stories together simultaneously. With the figure of Aslan, Lewis attempts to implicitly and explicitly explore Christian truths; but how successful was he in his attempt? This essay will address how the nature, works and qualities of Aslan relate to Christ and will evaluate the success of Lewis in his attempt. “Aslan a man?” declares Mr Beaver “Certainly not. I tell you he is the king of the wood and son of the great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea.
Job had direct communication with God and he often exclaimed his faith, “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God” (19:25-26). In ancient Israel, God was seen as a physical being. Job thought that through his sufferings God would appear to him and be one with him. God the Almighty still exists in today’s day and age but there are many skeptics, non believers and atheists who disapprove of the thought of God and faith
is like asking a Christian, "why don't you believe in Zeus?" (Rich, 2011) So the more I read to more I understood but why did I always think they thought he was a profit. I don’t know the answer to that question. Maybe I was told that growing up some time. I learned that Orthodox Jewish faith expects the messiah to “restoration of the Davidic monarchy and a just and peaceful society throughout the world, as foretold by the prophets during the age of the Babylonian Exile.” Christianity believes Jesus will come back and do those things upon his return.