Christianity

ALL
ABOUT
CHRISTIANITY
GROUP 2: Alegarbes, Fernandez, Gusela, Lo, Oracion, Juntilla & Porras
Christianity
➢ is the world’s biggest religion, with
about 2.1 billion followers worldwide.
It is based on the teachings of Jesus
Christ who lived in the Holy Land
2,000 years ago.
➢ For ease of navigation, we include as
Christians any group that sincerely
regards itself as Christian, and whose
beliefs based on the teachings of
Jesus.
SHORT
HISTORY
● Christianity developed in Judea in the
mid-first century CE, based first on the
teachings of Jesus and later on the
writings and missionary work of Paul of
Tarsus. Originally, Christianity was a small,
unorganized sect that promised personal
salvation after death.
● The first Christians were all Jews, who

constituted a Second Temple Jewish sect
with an apocalyptic eschatology. Among
other schools of thought, some Jews
regarded Jesus as Lord and resurrected
messiah, and the eternally existing Son of
God, expecting the second coming of
Jesus and the start of God's Kingdom.
Christianity is the most popular religion in the world with over 2 billion
adherents. 42 billion Britons see themselves as nominally Christian, and there are 6
million who are actively practicing. Christian is derived from the Greek form of the
title of Jesus (ho Christos, the Christ or the Anointed One).
❖ Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament.
❖ Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
❖ Christians also believe that God sent his Son to earth to save humanity from the
consequences of its sins.
❖ One of the most important concepts in Christianity is that of Jesus giving his life
on the Cross (the Crucifixion) and rising from the dead on the third day (the
Resurrection).
❖ Christians believe that there is only on God, but there are 3 elements to this one
God:
• God the Father
• God the Son
• The Holy Spirit
❖ Christians worship in churches. Their spiritual leaders are called priests and
ministers.
❖ The Christian Holy book is the Bible, and it consists of the Old and New
Testaments.
❖ Christians Holy days such as Easter and Christmas are important milestones in
the Western secular calendar
God, Jesus and the Saints
God Jesus
- Christians believe that - As the son of God who was

there is only one God, sent to save mankind from
whom they call Father as death and sin. Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ taught them. taught that He was Son of
God. His teachings can be
summarized, briefly as the
love of God and love of
one’s neighbor.
The Saints The Trinity
● The word Saints is most commonly

● Christians believe in the Trinity -
used to refer to a Christian who has
that is, in God as Father, Son and
lived a particularly good and holy life
Holy Spirit.
on earth, and with whom miracles are
● Christians believe that God took
claimed to have been associated after
human form as Jesus Christ and
their death.
that God is present today
● The formal title of Saint is conferred by
through the work of the Holy
the Roman Catholic and Orthodox
Spirit and evident in the actions
Churches through a process called
of believers.
canonisation.
FOUNDER
Jesus of Nazareth
❖ Jesus of Nazareth was a Jewish rabbi from the region
of Galilee in the first Century C.E., who attracted a small
band of followers through his ministry of healing and
teaching. After a short ministry he was executed by
Romans authorities. Historians would have paid him
little notice, but his followers made the astounding
claim that Jesus had been raised by God from the
dead. They kept alive his teachings and the stories of
his life and eventually wrote them down in different
versions. They proclaimed the message that through
the death and resurrection of Jesus, God had made a
new covenant with humanity, and that, through Jesus,
God offered redemption to all.
SYMBOLS
The Bible as library
✓ The Bible is not just one book, but an
entire library, with stories, songs, poetry,
letters and history, as well as literature
that might more obviously qualify as
'religious’.
✓ The Christian Bible has two sections, the

Old Testament and the New Testament.
The Old Testament is the original
Hebrew Bible, the sacred scriptures of
the Jewish faith, written at different
times between about 1200 and 165 BC.
The New Testament books were written
by Christians in the first century AD.
Cross
✓ Moral influence theories or exemplary
theories comprise a fourth category
used to explain the atonement. They
emphasize God's love expressed
through the life and death of Jesus.
✓ Christ accepted a difficult and

undeserved death. This demonstration
of love in turn moves us to repent and
re-unites us with God.
RITUALS
PRAYER
➢ Prayer is the means by which Christians communicate with their God.
➢ The New Testament records that Jesus taught his disciples how to pray and that he
encouraged them to address God as Father. Christians believe that they continue
this tradition.
➢ Sometimes the prayers are formal and part of a ritual laid down for hundreds of
years. Others are personal and spontaneous, and come from personal or group
need.
➢ Whilst prayer is often directed to God as Father, as taught by Jesus, some traditions
encourage prayer to God through intermediaries such as saints and martyrs.
➢ Prayers through Mary, as the mother of God, are central to some churches and
form a traditional part of their worship.
The Church Baptism
➢ The Christian church is fundamental
to believers. Although it has many
faults it is recognized as God's body
on earth. ➢ The Christian church believes in
one baptism into the Christian
➢ The church is the place where the church, whether this be as an
Christian faith is nurtured and infant or as an adult, as an
where the Holy Spirit is manifest on outward sign of an inward
earth. commitment to the teachings of
Jesus.
➢ It is where Christians are received
into the faith and where they are
brought together into one body
through the Eucharist.
EUCHARIST
➢ The Eucharist is a Greek word for thanksgiving. Its celebration is to
commemorate the final meal that Jesus took with his disciples before his
death (the Last Supper). Which is also called the Holy Communion, Mass, the
Lord's Supper or the Divine Liturgy, is a sacrament accepted by almost all
Christians.
➢ Christians don't say that they 'do' or 'carry out the Eucharist; they celebrate it.
In some churches, the person who takes the leading role in the ceremony is
called the celebrant.
EUCHARIST
➢ This rite comes from the actions of Jesus who, at that meal, took bread and
wine and asked his disciples to consume them and continue to do so in
memory of him.
➢ The Eucharist (also known as a Communion meal in some churches) is central

to the Church and is recognized as a sign of unity amongst Christians.
➢ Different Churches understand and practice the Eucharist in different ways.

As a result, the central ideas of the Eucharist can cause disharmony rather
than unity.
Pentecost Symbols Pentecostal Christianity
The symbols of Pentecost are Pentecost is a special day for any
those of the Holy Spirit and Christian, but it is emphasized
include flames, wind, the particularly by Pentecostal
breath of God and a dove. churches. Pentecostal Christians
believe in the direct experience
of the Holy Spirit by believers
during all of their services.
Matthew 6:33 ESV
“But seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and all
these things will be added to you.”
References
● Ganancias, L. G. (2015). Christianity.
https://www.slideshare.net/lyka95/chr
istianity-44864171
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● The first Christians were all Jews, who

- Christians believe that - As the son of God who was

● The word Saints is most commonly

✓ The Christian Bible has two sections, the

✓ Christ accepted a difficult and

➢ The Eucharist (also known as a Communion meal in some churches) is central

➢ Different Churches understand and practice the Eucharist in different ways.

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