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Christianity

Christianity is currently the largest religion in the world. It has dominated western culture for centuries and remains the majority religion of Europe and the Americas. Christian belief centers on the life of Jesus of Nazareth, a teacher and healer of first-century Palestine. Christianity teaches salvation from sin and the gift of eternal life through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God. (Van Voorst 83) The sacred text of Christianity is the Bible, which consists of the Old Testament (roughly equivalent to the Jewish Bible) and the New Testament. The New Testament contains 27 books: four gospels (narratives of Jesus' life), one account of the apostles' ministry after ...

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the basis of Jesus' title "Christ," which comes from the Greek word for "Messiah." The gospel are followed by the Acts of Apostles, the only book of the New Testament devoted to a historical account of the early church and its growth through its first approximately thirty five years. (Van Voorst 85) Most of the New Testament consists of letters, or “epistles” of instructions and correction written by church leaders to various churches. Some scholars dispute the names on these letters, arguing that the texts are pseudonymous, written by someone other than the given author, usually by one of his followers or coworkers after his death. (Van Voorst 85)
According to the text Jesus was born to a devout Jewess named Mary and a carpenter named Joseph. According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus was conceived by a miracle of the Holy Spirit before the couple had had any sexual relationship. (Van Voorst 90) Jesus then spent from one to three years teaching and working miracles ...

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