What is Christianity?

What is Christianity? Christianity is known as a religion. For general people, Christian is everyone who believes in Jesus Christ as his/her savior and God, be baptized in the name of God Father, Son, and Spirit, read Holy Bible, has religious services in Christian church, etc. Those descriptions are definitely true. But really, what is Christianity?

As we know, even though Jesus Christ did not come to the earth to bring new religion, Christianity is based on the resurrection of Him. In history of Judaism, men sailed close to the wind and lost their connection with God. They did mean things and were punished. But God is full of love and He wanted to reconcile with men. He made a testament with the Israel that He would not leave them and He sent prophets and priests as the emissary between Him and His men. But Israel kept doing mean things and no one could do the reconciliation. Then He promised a savior from above who could do the redemption. Jesus came subsequently. Christian believes that Jesus was the savior who was promised by God. They believe that Jesus was sent from above to do the redemption and reconciliation between God and men. He is the incarnation of God alone.

After the death of Jesus Christ, He rised and went to heaven. He promised the apostles that after those things happened, He would send His Holy Spirit as their partner so they did not have to be afraid anymore. At the day of Pentacost, the apostles reported about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and more than 3000 people believed. They then gave themselves to be baptized and became the early Christian. Question of what is Christianity can be answered historically by the explanation above.

Christianity has been developing until today. We can see it’s dynamics backward. And because of that reason, Christianity has been complicated. So, what is Christianity today? It is a difficult question to answer. Christianity now has so many different groups with so many different theologies as their foundations. A few of them even known as sects.

Question of what is Christianity can also be answered personally. Some consider Christianity as their identity. Some even dedicate their lives to learn about Christianity. Some people believe that salvation is only possessed in Christianity. Meanwhile, the other say Christianity is non sense. There are also a few people who say that Christianity is just a fantasy. Several Jews maybe still consider Christianity as heresy. What is Christianity for you?