CHRISTIANITY

ORIGIN

Christianity started with the birth of the world by the hands of God. After he created the first man and women and when they sinned he sent them into the real world. In the real world there was lots of sin.

CIRCA 2,500 YEARS LATER

Then the Angel Gabriel visited a woman named Mary and asked her if she would give birth to the Messiah. Nine months later the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ on December, 25th starting Anno Domini (A.D.), the Year of our Lord. He led people called his disciples to preach the word of his Father. Ultimately leading to his crucifixion by the Romans at age 32.

RELIGIOUS FIGURES

• God, the creator of the world and everything in it.
• Jesus, God's son and savior of all Christians.

IMPORTANT PEOPLE

• Simon, a leper who Jesus healed then made a disciple.
• John, one of the Apostles of Jesus who wrote five books in the New Testament.

HOW THEY PRACTICE

The church is where Christians practice their religion with a pastor or a preacher teaching them about the Word.

SIGNIFICANT BELIEFS

That you should pray for forgiveness to God after committing a sin to achieve the goal of going to heaven. Also, to go through a Communion multiple times per year to cleanse your body of sin and to basically be reborn and repealed of all previous sin.

IMPORTANT DATES

Christmas marks the birth of Jesus on December 25th. Easter marks the resurrection of Jesus three days after Good Friday which is the day that he was crucified.

OTHER

The Ten Commandments are the rules that God established in the Old Testament. You had to follow these rules in order to go to heaven. Christians read the Holy Bible to receive the Word of God. It was written over a millennium by several different authors and has many different versions.