Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

Christianity

One of the world’s religions with three main branches: Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism. A common feature uniting all of its representatives is the belief in the triune God, and Jesus Christ simultaneously acts as the God-man, the savior of the world. The main source of Christian teaching is the Holy Scriptures — the Bible, especially its second part — the New Testament.

One of the main features of Christianity is love for a person, mercy for the suffering. The antipode of love, according to the Gospel, is false self-affirmation, pride, selfishness — personal, national, religious, focusing only on one’s own as the only value. Therefore, to the two main commandments of the Old Testament about love for God and for one’s neighbor, Christ adds a “new commandment” — about complete self-giving.

Christianity proclaims the equality of all people as sinners, gives them hope to find freedom in a simple and understandable way — through the knowledge of the divine truth that Christ brought to earth in order to atone for all human sins and vices forever. … Christian apologetics asserts that, unlike all other religions of the world, Christianity was not created by people, but given to mankind by God in a finished and finished form,