Christians biography

Be perfect, as your father is perfect, MF. Why is Christianity called a religion of love? God has immensely the fullness of all perfection. Love is one of the essential properties of God. In the framework of Christian creed, this divine property is disclosed with special clarity. Christianity, of course, stands out not only by what testifies to divine love, but also by the fact that he calls people for real, sincere love: love for God and neighbor MF.

If I have a gift of prophecy, and I know all the secrets, and I have all knowledge and all faith, so I can rearrange the mountains, and I do not have love, then I am nothing. And if I distribute my whole estate and give my body to burning, but I have no love, I have no benefit in that ”1 Cor. So, love in Christianity is considered not just as one of the highest virtues, but as the norm of a godly life.

According to St. Gregory the Theologian, if Christians ask someone that they honor and what they worship, then their answer will be ready: we honor love. What is in Christianity that is not in other religions? God -manned Christianity has many fundamental differences from other religions. In particular, this is expressed in creed, moralizing, liturgical practice, in the lifestyle. Christians differ from representatives of pagan cults in a single god, and from monotheists-not Christian Jews, Muslims by faith in the trinity of God by faces.

Christians not only recognize the historicity of Jesus Christ, which is also characteristic of many representatives of other beliefs, but believe in His divine dignity, that he is a redeemer of people, believe in his resurrection and ascension to heaven above all heaven, sitting the right of his father. The Christians honor the Mother of God with special veneration, believing that she is the Mother of God in human nature in the most accurate meaning of this word.

Again, true Christians believe in the church, that it is not just a collection of believers, but the God -human organism, the “body of Christ”, believe that it is a “pillar and affirmation of truth” 1im. The true - Orthodox - Christians believe in the unity of the earthly and heavenly church, believe that representatives of the Church of Heaven help representatives of the earth.

Within the framework of true Christianity, saving sacraments are performed, which is not characteristic of either Judaism or Islam. Another difference between Christianity and Judaism and Islam in the field of worship and God's reading is the practice of icon veneration. Unlike pagans, worshiping images or sculptures of false gods, that is, idols, Christians honor icons not like idols; The icons are displayed: God and His saints, real events from the history of the world and, in particular, the Church, as well as future events, predicted through prophets or apostles, for example, the Last Judgment, etc.

Christians are not just to become “good people”, but to become gods by grace. God in Christianity-Christians believe that God is not some kind of impersonal abstract entity, strength or energy, but that God is personally, all-distinguished. Will all Christians be saved? The Lord Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of all people. However, this does not follow with unconditional that all people, without exception, will be saved automatically.

A private opinion about universal salvation, expressed at one time by Origen and supported by some thinkers, did not find general church approval. The path of salvation involves following Christ. Salvation is achieved in a church, joining which is carried out through baptism. According to a number of churches, baptized children who died in infancy, reach the kingdom of heaven.

People of conscious age convert salvation by faith, through the observance of God's law. Many of those who, after death are in hell, can be saved by prayers for them from their neighbors, from the church. What are the most important commandments in Christianity? The foundation of the ethics of Orthodox Christianity is the commandment of love for God “with all the soul, the whole fortress, all its being” and the commandment of love for his neighbor, following the example of the love of God for the man of the MF.

Why do Christianity need dogma in Christianity? Is it not enough just the commandments of love? Christian ethics is an important part of Christian teaching. However, reducing the main tasks of church sermon only to the promotion of the provisions of Christian morality and ethics, while minimizing the significance of the dogmatic teachings of the Church means not understanding the tasks and goals of the church.

All Christian ethics has a close connection with dogma. It is the dogma that explains why, for which partly: and how exactly a person should comply with Christian ethical norms; The dogma shows what is the advantage of Christian ethics over other ethical systems. Quotes about Christianity 2in. This truth contains the key to understanding Christianity.When a person understands this, then he will see the superiority of Orthodoxy over other religions, because, in essence, everything that the Orthodox Church adheres to and adheres to one goal - to unite with God through moral renewal and likening him.

” Christianity is a religion of divine revelation, in which a person receives a living, personal, direct communication with the Creator of the Universe, combining with him in the sacrament of the Eucharist and clearly feeling the divine providence of the divine grace in his life. All Christian virtues are the gift of God in response to the purity of the heart and the fulfillment of Christian commandments, first of all, love for God and neighbor.

” Borisov "Christianity is a meeting of man with God in the personality of Christ." Alexander Borisov “Christianity cannot be reduced to creed, to morality, to tradition, because in its essence it was initially not a faith in the doctrine, but in the personality, in the unique god -human personality of the Lord Jesus Christ. And not only Vera, but also the opportunity to unite with it with a close internal union, to enter into direct lively communication ...

”Priest Oleg Davydenkov“ I have to see a lot of people of Orthodox and non -Orthodox, believers and unbelievers. And at one time I had a lot to work with the easternists for three years, so, in general, enough.

And it is amazing what a person’s knowledge of God can have when he reaches some edge, and only the name Jesus is not enough to give the key and explanation to everything. But is it possible to imagine that when a person who, at least, with the help of his even pagan faith, has come to such knowledge, will appear in the face of the Lord, he will not know: here is who I have been looking for all my life, here is the answer to all my perplexities?