The Birth of Christianity

With the dawn of A.D. hearts filled with hate, minds corrupted with politics, blades and shields shattered to drench the sand with blood, poor souls of Europe(Middle Earth) had lost all faith in humanity, the reason to believe in God and the purpose to live in this unkind world. Europe went into a state of hate, unrest and misbelief. Integrity of Europe was hanging by the piece of a thread.

'Love' was the only solution that could have brought peace and tranquility to the restless souls desperate to seek ‘reason’. The sense of purpose needed to be balanced by the mysterious equation of 'Love'. Integrity of Europe needed to be restored.

In those dark times, born to Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem of Judea , Jesus was a very superior soul who had the inner purity to ‘Love’ . His love for his fellowmen and his charismatic healing power to heal another man full of hate, unrest and misbelief with love was undoubtedly miraculous to bring about an apocalyptic movement. His purity, his love, his kindness, his selflessness, his words of peace and serenity attracted one and many, from shepherds to kings. People started believing him to be the ‘Messiah’ , Son of God bound in the human form to deliver love and peace to his children. Within few years of preaching love and peace Jesus had huge number of followers by his side. They later came to be known as “Christians” the followers of ‘Christianity’.

If we go deep down in history we will find that, before the era of the ‘Modern Propagating Religion – Christianity’ , before Christ was born (B.C.), ‘Classical Religion’ like that of the Greeks and Romans were dominant all over Europe. With the state of unrest in Europe in the early A.D.'s people were loosing faith in the ‘Classical Religion’. ‘Classical Religion’ had grown complex over time bringing about untold unorthodox rituals and practices. Common man was engulfed in these complexities. Though they blindly followed the masses, in their heart they were in search for ‘reason’ and ‘purpose’ for their belief in God (The Supreme One). ‘Christianity’ was the answer. The simplicity of the Christian doctrine attracted the masses of Europe in huge numbers. Slowly the ‘Classical Religion’ faded away in Europe and Christianity was established far and wide as the new ‘Propagating Religion’.

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Trinity is the doctrine that in the unity of the One God, there are three divine persons: the Father, Son, and Spirit, distinct from one another yet of one substance. The three persons are co-eternal and uncreated: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God. Jesus is understood by Trinitarian Christians to be the person of the Son, eternally begotten by the Father, who came upon earth to deliver to the world.

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Jesus the Way to the Father

8 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, all who have faith in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 "If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be [c] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. Anyone who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."

Jesus - Son of God

One of the most debated topics of history. 'Jesus'. A word so powerful that it invokes awe in the very utterance. Jesus‘s life, and his teachings has been debated again and again in the annals of history. “Aside from few conclusions, academic studies remain inconclusive about the chronology, the central message of Jesus' preaching, his social class, cultural environment, and religious orientation.” Scholars offer competing descriptions of Jesus as the awaited Messiah, as a self-described Messiah, as the leader of an apocalyptic movement, as an itinerant sage, as a charismatic healer, and as the founder of an independent religious movement. One may be a scholar or a layman, a believer or non-believer, but we have to acknowledge that his impact on world history is undeniable.

Origin of the phrase "Deus Vult" .

Deus vult (God wills it) was the cry of the people at the declaration of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095. On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II made perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus volt!" or "God wills it!"

By the end of the 11th century, the Holy Land--the area now commonly referred to as the Middle East--had become a point of conflict for European Christians. Since the 6th century, Christians frequently made pilgrimages to the birthplace of their religion, but when the Seljuk Turks took control of Jerusalem, Christians were barred from the Holy City. When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I made a special appeal to Urban for help. This was not the first appeal of its kind, but it came at an important time for Urban. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, Pope Urban II seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks.

At the Council of Clermont, in France, at which several hundred clerics and noblemen gathered, Pope Urban II delivered a rousing speech summoning rich and poor alike to stop their in-fighting and embark on a righteous war to help their fellow Christians in the East and take back Jerusalem. Urban denigrated the Muslims, exaggerating stories of their anti-Christian acts, and promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ.

Pope Urban II 's war cry caught fire, mobilizing clerics to drum up support throughout Europe for the crusade against the Muslims. All told, between 60,000 and 100,000 people responded to Urban's call to march on Jerusalem. Not all who responded did so out of piety: European nobles were tempted by the prospect of increased land holdings and riches to be gained from the conquest. These nobles were responsible for the death of a great many innocents both on the way to and in the Holy Land, absorbing the riches and estates of those they conveniently deemed opponents to their cause. Adding to the death toll was the inexperience and lack of discipline of the Christian peasants against the trained, professional armies of the Muslims. As a result, the Christians were initially beaten back, and only through sheer force of numbers were they eventually able to triumph.