Friday, October 23, 2009

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.


Quote from the Bible:


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."

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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.