Christianity Reaserch Project
due (1/14-15/15)
Where is Christianity located?
Christianity is located mostly in North America, South America, Europe, and Russia.
How did Christianity get popular?, How many followers does it have?, Where is it most popular?
A demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 2.18 Billion Christians. Christianity is 2nd popular behind Buddhism and is also growing by 1000 people every day. Christianity is mostly growing in North America and Europe. Christianity mostly spreads through church's and priests. Because when Christianity became the accepted religion of Rome, spreading throughout the empire.
How do you become a follower?
If you believe in God, and Jesus who is the son of God. Also God says that if you believe in His son, Jesus, you can live forever with Him in glory. If it is your sincere desire to receive Jesus into your heart as your personal Lord and Savior.
Why are people attracted to this religion?
Most people liked Christianity because it was a growing religion . Also they believe it is exclusively due to certain demographics or because of what is says in their books and bible.
is Christianity a Universalizing faith?
Yes it is a faith that claims applicability to humans that seek to transmit their beliefs through missionary work and conversion. its membership is open to any one who chooses to make the symbolic commitment.
Timeline of christianity and was it related to any other religion?
Christianity was not related to or entangled with any other religion. 1.Birth of Jesus (4 BC), 2.Crucifixion of Jesus (30AD), 3. Council of Jerusalem (49.C), 4. The Book Of Revelation was written (95.C), 5.Second council of Nicea (787), 6. Great Schism between east and west (1054), 7. Crusaders recapture Jerusalem from the Turks (1099), 8. Joan of Arc martyred (1431), 9. Birth of Martin Luther (1483), 10. World council of Churches founded (1948).
3 IMPORTANT EVENTS IN CHRISTIANITY
1. (4 BC) the birth of Jesus- ''Jesus'' is one the most fascinating figures in human history. Despite his origins as the son of a poor carpenter from the countryside in the Roman Empire, his life was short of 33 years. 2. The Salem Witch Trials (1692)-these legal proceedings in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, resulted in 20 people, being the accused and where prosecuted and executed for allegedly practicing witchcraft, when no evidence of it existed. Many consider these trials one of the most tragic series of events in the history of the United States as well as in the history of the Christian faith.3.John Wesley (1703)-John was an Anglican cleric and Christian theologian. John is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, with founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield.
What are some central beliefs of Christianity?
Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV-“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
2 Corinthians 11:3-“But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
2 Corinthians 2:17-"For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.”
what symbol does christianity have?
The cross because Jesus was crucified and killed on a crucifix and where the next day was reincarnated.
Whats their place of worship?
The place of worship is in churches or cathedrals because they thought that god had visited those places.
Where are there dead buried?
there buried in cemeteries where their bodies are laid to rest in peace and make their place to heaven