What is Christianity?
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and
only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John
3:16
Christianity is
able to express one word. It is love.
God is able to
express in one word. It is love. The following words in the Bible "No one has ever seen God; but if we
love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. God is
love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” 1 John4:12, 16
Christianity has
become quite complicated in history. It may be used as a tool to bind people
according to various principles, or it may connect with nations
or organizations and it's used as a cause to hurt people. Even nowthere are
various distortions in Christendom.
However,
Christianity is originally very simple and what everyone experiences and
desires. It's not a religion. It's love. God is love. And God created people to
love. He made human in the image of God and in the likeness of God, so man and
woman became an existence who can love others.
We cannot live
without relationships with others. When given love, one comes to love one. On
the contrary, if love is not given, one becomes hungry for love. Crime, war,
the problems of the world arise from this hunger of love. We are all born of
parents. The child needs the love of the parent. The Bible says that God is our
father. We are children of god. That is why we are loved. Actually, parents
love their own children just because they are their children. God loves us
unconditionally because God is the source of love. He wants to give his child
everything he or she needs. God has a personality, and he knows and loves all
of us. Love is not robbing, but giving. God's love is appeared in the world in
the form of a man.
That is Jesus
Christ. ”Dear
friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves ,
has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one
and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not
that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins." 1John4: 7-10
We have a nature that is out of love. That is
sin. Sin caused a disconnection with God.
God gave us an
eternal life that never perishes. We have a body and inside of this, there is a
soul and a spirit. God's life is not only for the body but also for the inside
of the person. Man lost that kind of life when he was guilty. People believe in
Satan's lies that tried to separate him from God. At that moment, a person was
guilty and a person died. The beginning of creation, in Garden of Eden a tree
of life and a tree of knowledge of good and evil were planted. God told man "Don't
eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when you eat from that tree, you
will definitely die." However, Satan in the shape of a snake said,
"You will not die" to the man. The man doubted God and believed in
Satan's lie. Man could no longer trust God. In addition, man became the
existence will die. Man has become dead spiritually as well as physically. For
the sins of man to revive the life, God gave his son Jesus Christ as a redeemer
to the world. If a parent were said your child has sinned so is sent to hell to
be judged and suffer, the parent who really loves the child would say this."I
go and punished instead of my child. I Receive and suffer on behalf of my
child. So please save my child." Everyone is a child of God. God loves his
child, so Christ came to pay for the sins of man. Christ carried the sin of man
and hung on the cross. Jesus Christ resurrected three days after he died on the
cross. He promised to be with us until the end of the world. Christ is still
alive and working. He is not the one who died 2000 years ago. Believing in
Christ as our Savior, God forgives us and has paved the way for eternal life. The
most precious thing man can give others is his or her own life.
God did not
stint his life for us. By believing in Christ We will never perish,
be given the
eternal life. God has shown his love by Christ. Christ was sent to give freedom
for us. Christ freed people from all the rules that bound them. Jesus Christ
gave to us only one commandment. "This
is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." John
15:12
Knowing the love
of God, loving people, That is what God wants us. The teaching of Christianity
is only one thing, it's love. To know and love God is what God want you. God is
love , therefore God gives His precious son Jesus Christ for us to have eternal
life without perishing.
Christ is told
an analogy that showed God's love The story of prodigal son who begged the
heritage of his father while he is alive. The son left his home after he
received, and he had used up the property he received. Therefore, he was
difficult to live. He decided to return to his father and apologize him, and he
returned to his father His father opened his arms and greeted him without
blaming his returning son. The father hugged him, and holds him a feast with
the joy of his son's return. This is the love of God. Christ washed the feet of
all his beloved disciples. God is not just looking down from a high place, but
make himself low and serve a loved one. This is the image of God. Christianity
is love. What God is telling people is love. God is love.