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Confused Christian
I'm totally lost in the types of Christianity there are. I know I believe in God, and the fact that Jesus died for us to get into Heaven. But what I do not understand, is what exactly God did, and what exactly Jesus did to get crucified in the first place.
Also, I was wondering if someone could explain the differences in denominations for me, or give me a link to a site that can do so. Thanks so much.
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well....when God first created man. eve ate off the tree of life. now, God said you can eat off anything, BUT the tree of life. well eve didnt listen to God, and ate off of it, and that created sin. so God sent his son Jesus christ, (which is God in the flesh) to die on the cross, for our sins. now the earthly reason why he died, is beacuse the jews thought that christ was a lie, and he was againist them. so they killed him. (so they thought anyway. now, about denominations, christianity is the main catagory, then all the other types are sub catagories.
christianity
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baptist
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lutheran
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etc.....
hope this helps.
God bless
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well... no one really knows anything more than what they read, no one tries to think past it... the way i see it is that Jesus got crucified b/c people were jealous or they thought it was “blasphemous”… and there really is no difference in the different types of Christianity b/c in one way or another they all have been distorted in some way... like... i'm a Christian(sadly i don't know which kind... i believe god is real and Jesus is his son… but i'm still trying 2 figure out what exactly i believe) but i don't believe that hell is a burning fiery aaahhhh thing, i just think it's where people who have done things that God finds bad enough are simply forgotten... this is just my opinion... and it probably didn't make any sense... just tryin to help
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Jesus was forgiving peoples sins and doing things everyone thoughtonly God was allowed to do. The Jews did not think this was right so they crucified him
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Christian literally means "follower of Christ". God created people in His own image to be His companions. When Adam and Eve (the first people) chose to disobey God and listen to the devil, the entire creation including humans fell under the curse of sin. God told Adam and Eve that if they ate from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they would surely die. Adam and Eve ate from the tree. Did they die? Yep. They didn't physically drop over dead at that moment, but they started to age and the life in them that bound them to God, died. And every person since then is born with a sin nature. But God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus at the perfect time to be the perfect sacrifice to win back the souls of humans. Jesus did nothing wrong to deserve death. It was His love for each person that held Him to the cross. God gave people a free will and that free will gives every person a choice to accept the sacrifice or not. God the Father made a way for people to have a relationship with Him again and Jesus' life was the payment. Although Jesus died so we could go to heaven, not everyone including some who call themselves Christians, accept that. Demons and the devil believe there is a God and that Jesus is the Son, but they will not be in heaven. Being a true Christian goes beyond believing that God and/or Jesus exsists. Being a true Christian means accepting the gift of Jesus' sacrifice in a personal way. Some call this being born again, others call it having a regenerated spirit, but whatever you want to call it, it's having a personal relationship with God through Jesus. It's relationship not religious do's and don'ts.
As far as denominations...What I explained above is the bases of true Christianity. Different denominations have brought in man-made traditions, rituals and who knows what. Much of it is not based on the Bible. Someone mentioned Jehovah Witnesses. Jehovah Witnesses are not at all Christians. They don't even claim to be Christians. I don't know what sort of church atmosphere you're in, but I encourage you to question everything you're taught. Ask the pastor/priest where in the Bible it says what they are teaching. Someday when you're standing before God, God is not going to accept the excuse that someone taught you wrong stuff. You need to take the responsibility to find out the truth based on the Word of God. Asking these questions here is a wonderful start. Good job! Keep asking, read the Bible, and know what the Bible has to say.
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i'm not sure i really understand the questions but i had to look since that's kind of how i feel all the time: confused about my religion. well like cathliocism is a branch of christianity and they belive the same kind of things (like how Jesus was crucified and all) but they usually also belive in praying to saints and cristians don't. they belive in praying directly to God becuase they don't have to go through the saints. then theres Jahovahs Witness which is another popular branch of christianity that seems to come mainly from mexico, i htink they belive in the saints and everything but they also sacrafice everything to thier church. if i'm just confusing you now i've named cathlioc-christian, christian-christian and Jahovah's witness-christian. those are the 3 types i know.
Whew! now the second question: since you refer to Jesus being seperate from God your probably talking about God the Father whom created Earth and all it's people, who most people seem to pray to and hear when "God talks to them". He's the first out of the Holy Trinity and He created Jesus and the Holy Spirit. without Him...nothing would exist...nothing.
and third: Jesus didn't do anything except claim to be the Mesiah, which He was. That's why people were skeptical and thet's why they arrested Him. They crucified him however becuase becuase of these non-beliver's opinions. Panchus Pilot asked the people if he should crucify him and the people said "yes"(very loudly and all at once).
But i know nothing about denominations, sorry.
So i hope i shed some light and i'm sooooooo sorry if i made you read all that and just confused you more. but just consider yourself christian and belive in God and don't worry you'll be fine.
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Ok others answered your question on the why's of Jesus dying. God is the creater, and father of Jesus. There are many different types of christianity. Below is a link on the explanation of the difference between them all.
Hope this helps.
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Jesus was crucified because he claimed he was the son of God which sounded outrageous especially in a Jewish society.
So he died on the cross as payment to God to clear the debt of human sins but he apparently wasn't afraid because he knew he was going to God for "life after death".
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ok, God=creater of everything
Gen. 1:1 In the begining God created the heavens and the earth
Jesus=savior
Basically what Jesus did was he preached the Gospil. one of the kings (im sorry i don't remember which one) Didn't like that he was getting all of this attention, he was mad that people were worshiping his God rather than him. So this king took it before Pilate, he was going to let Jesus go, but the people would not let him. I would recomend John 18 It is about the sacrifice of the son of God. Maybe if you read that story then it will help you to understand. And about the denominations, im not really sure, sorry:(
If you are ever in the Arkansas/Missouri region check into seeing The Passion Play, it is awsome and it is about the last 7 days of Jesus life (it may be in other places but i know that it is there for sure, you could prolly do a google search)
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