Research Paper On Christian Religion

Christianity has over 2 billion followers worldwide. The Christian faith is based on and follows the life of Jesus Christ the messiah. The source of information on Jesus Christ is the gospel, which were written 20 -100 years after his death and are the first four books of the New Testament. The gospel are the teaching and healing ministries of the last three years of Jesus and also are the accounts of the twelve disciples and many others that believed he was and is the messiah.

Jesus taught on the basis of the kingdom of god, the love of god and the love of thy neighbor. Many of the things that Jesus taught was considered to Jewish elders and roman government as blasphemies and would eventually lead to his crucifixion. After

The Old Testament follows along the lines of the Jewish bible called the Tanakh, where the New Testament consist of 27 books which are the four gospel (four narratives of Jesus’s life), the accounts of the apostle after Jesus death, letters from the church and the apocalyptic book.

Mostly all Christians believe the bible was divinely written and authoritative. But some views from Christians differ. Some believe that what is written within the bible was written without error and that the lesson that are taught with in it are not objective but subjective. Others believe that since the bible was written by man that there may be some areas of error and limitations due to its authorship.

There are three different branches within Christianity and they are Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestantism. Catholicism and Eastern orthodox separated after Constantinople and the Pope excommunicated each other. Eastern Orthodoxy differ in their allegiance to the pope and their use of icons during worship. The protestant reform was created due to their lack of acknowledgement of the pope. Many protestant sect believe that the authority of god is within the bible and should not be the authority of figures such as church and the pope. Many Catholic argue that the church was created before sacred

During the early Middle Ages the decision of ecumenical council and the doctrine of apostolic succession were safeguarded so that the correct beliefs were being taught throughout the church. During the protestant reformation attention was turned to preserving the original message of Christianity. Protestants felt that[AR1] throughout the years, there was too much oversight and doctrine that skewed the original beliefs of Christianity. They felt that the Catholics invested to power in to the pope and the churches sacred traditions. The importance of correct belief was brought even more to the forefront with the reformers' emphasis on true faith as the only requirement for salvation. Almost all of the denominational divisions that have arisen since the Reformation center around matters of doctrine, not