Christianity: Difference between revisions

* Christianity is a monotheistic religion from the perspective of modern adherents. The most prevalent view is that the one [[God]] subsists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Needless to say, a ''lot'' of philosophy and theology has been devoted to understanding this and it's still a [[Mind Screw]] for many; some sects do away with it entirely, [[Voodoo Shark|probably for that reason]].

* God is omniscient (i.e., knows everything that has ever transpired or will transpire, past, present, and future), omnipotent (i.e., capable of doing anything He desires to), and omnibenevolent (i.e., He loves everyone and everything). As above, a lot of philosophy has been dedicated to comprehending how these qualities interact with each other, and how they can coexist given the seemingly contradictory nature of the world man exists in; the general answer being that [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|God is playing a long game the understanding of which is beyond man's comprehension.]]

* Jesus was the incarnation of God on Earth. In the person of Jesus, God walked among us and experienced human life ''as'' a human, including its sufferings and its privations. (Don't ask whether Heaven had an "Out of the Office, Will Return In [X] Years" sign on it whilst Jesus was alive. That view is called "modalism", and nobody really knows.)

* Christianity is an expansion on or replacement of the covenant established between God and the Jewish people in the Old Testament. Key to this is the concept of blood sacrifice - when sin transpires, blood must be spilled in its atonement. Whereas the ancient Jews fulfilled this necessity with intermittent animal sacrifices, Christ offered His own blood as a substitute, permanently, once and for all. Hence the sobriquet "Lamb of God"; whereas lambs were the preferred animal for sacrifice in the temple, Jesus became the lamb for the entire world.