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Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as Jesus Christ, as recounted in the New Testament. ...
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Jesus (Greek: , Iēsous) (8-2 BC/BCE – 29-36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus the Nazarene, is the central figure of Christianity, in which context he is known as Jesus Christ, where Christ is a Greek title meaning Anointed, corresponding to the Hebrew...
The Twelve Apostles (in Koine Greek απόστολος apostolos [1], someone sent forth/sent out, an emissary) were probably Galilean Jewish men (10 names are Aramaic, 4 names are Greek) chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth by Jesus of Nazareth to preach the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles...
In Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, an ecumenical council or general council is a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. ...
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The Protestant Reformation was a movement which emerged in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe. ...
| | The Trinity of God
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Grace ยท Salvation
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In Christian theology, One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is a phrase describing the nature of the Christian community and/or Christian Church, in the various meanings it has. ...
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Divine grace is believed by Christians to be the sovereign favor of God exercised in the bestowment of blessings upon those who have no merit in them. ...
Salvation refers to deliverance from an undesirable state or condition. ...
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| | The Christian Bible
Old Testament
New Testament
Apocrypha
The Bible (Hebrew: ×ª× ×´×š tanakh, Greek: η Βίβλος hÄ“ biblos) (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word Scripture, Scripture), from Greek (τα) βίβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity. ...
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See New Covenant for the concept translated as New Testament in the KJV. The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, and, in recent times, also New Covenant, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written in the first centuries of...
Apocrypha is a Greek word (απόκÏυφα, neuter plural of απόκÏυφος), from αποκÏυπτειν, to hide away. ...
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Protestantism A denomination, in the Christian sense of the word, is an identifiable religious body, organization under a common name, structure, and/or doctrine. ...
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Orthodox Christianity is a generalized reference to the Eastern traditions of Christianity, as opposed to the Western traditions which descend from the Catholic Church. ...
Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing the splitting away from the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe—a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ...
Christian movements
Christian movements are theological, political, or philosophical intepretations of Christianity that are not generally represented by a specific church, sect, or denomination. ...
| For the early Christians it was obvious to worship Jesus as God. Because of that, in the Bible there is nowhere an explanation about the Divinity of Jesus.
Even Paul, who had been raised as a devout Pharisee and believed strongly in monotheism, does not treat this subject extensively. In his letters he uses the name of Jesus as a substitution with the name of God and vice versa and speaks about them as if they are mutual interchangeable.
Later on, there were arising debates about the Divinity or the humanity of Jesus.
The key question is that it is difficult to fathom with reason how Jesus can be God and human at the same time. It is the same problem that the Jews encountered: "If David called the Messiah his Lord, how can the Messiah be a son of King David? No one was able to give Jesus an answer, and from that day on, no one dared ask him any more questions." (Matthew 22:45-46, CEV)
Jesus is called God - Romans 9:5
- Filippians 2:6
- 1 Timothy 3:16
- Titus 2:13
- Hebrews 1:8,9
- 2 Peter 1:1
- 1 John 5:20
- John 1:1-18
- Acts of the Apostles 20:28
The Father want that Jesus is to be worshipped as God
Jesus accepts being worshipped as God - John 20:28
- Matthew 28:9
- Matthew 28:17
Jesus uses expressions only God may use - Gospel of John, "I am"-expressions
Jesus claims to do things only God is able to do - He forgives sins (Mark 2:5-10)
- He will judge all people (Matthew 25:31-46)
- He shall raise up the dead (John 5:21; 6:40)
- He is able to be in every disciple at the same time (Matthew 28:20; John 14:20
Texts about God in the Hebrew Bible are applied to Jesus
The Hebrew Bible speaks about God in plural The most used word for God in the Hebrew Bible is 'Elohim', which is a plural name. The word "Elohim" is most of the time translated with "Lord" or "Jehovah" in English. In an important confession of faith of Jews, in Deuteronomy 6:4, it says: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD (KJV)".
Likewise, in Genesis 1:26, with the creation, God says "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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The parallel with light Jesus calls himself "the light of the world" (John 8:12). Light exhibits according to wave-particle duality that light is both a wave and a particle. In that sense, Jesus is both man and God. In physics, wave-particle duality holds that light and matter can exhibit properties of both waves and of particles. ...
Ark of the Covenant In Exodus 25:10-22 is written about the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was made of wood and gold, after the spritual example that Moses had seen in heaven.
Wood symbolizes temporality and human weakness, while gold symbolizes infiniteness and godly almight and holiness.
The lonely God A philosophical reasoning to understand the dual nature of Jesus is the following: if God is Love, and He was alone (without any company), then He must have had a loney existence in eternity, before he created the universe and all the creatures. After all, in that case He had no one to share His love with before creation. Then God had missed something in eternity. With other words, He was imperfect. In that case, He would have needed creation to fully develop himself. |
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