Question:
Bro i just have some points about christianity first of all what you think the core of your religion the main solo belief?
Answer:
The very foundation of Christianity, the main core belief, is the death of Jesus on the cross, to pay the price for the sins of the entire human race. The whole Old Testament looks forward to it, and the whole New Testament after the four gospel accounts, looks back at it. The salvation of every human being depends on our acceptance and belief in Jesus’ atoning sacrifice of Himself on the cross.
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
1 Peter 1 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you …
Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
From the passages above, we see that the plan of salvation was not a knee-jerk reaction from God, but a carefully thought-out plan that was decided on before the world was created. God created each human being with the power of free choice. God could have made us so that we would never sin, and love Him only, but then we would be robots with no free will. God wants our love, but He only wants it if it is freely given. God is love, which means that He would never force us to do anything. Forced love is rape, and God wants us to be free to choose to love Him. God told Adam and Eve that they could eat of any of the thousands of trees in the Garden of Eden, but only the one tree God specified, they were required to leave alone and not eat the fruit of it. He told them that if they disobeyed Him, and ate the forbidden fruit, they would surely die. Please note that He did not say that He would kill them, but that they would die if they disobeyed and walked away from the Giver of life.
The Godhead knew from the very beginning, that by giving humans the power of free choice, there was a big risk that someone at some time would make the wrong choice, which would mean rebellion and sin. For this reason, the Godhead made a contingency plan, so that the human race, if it sinned, would have the chance to repent and come back to God. The Bible tells us that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), which means that a person who sins would be destroyed forever, unless God stepped in. And that is why it was decided that the Creator Himself, the Second Person of the Godhead, would come down to earth to die for the sins of mankind, so that those who accept Him, would not have to die eternally for their sins, but could accept God’s free gift of salvation and eternal life. That gift is free to us, but for Jesus it was a huge sacrifice. He had to take all the sins of the world upon Himself, and pay the penalty for them with His own life, which He could only do because He was the Creator, and because He had not commit a single sin as a human being. Because He was perfect, He could take our sins on Himself, become sin for us, and still come back from death, because He Himself had committed no sin. But Jesus did not force anyone to put Him on the cross and kill Him. Again, it was the free choice of the Jewish religious leaders to either follow Jesus, and acknowledge Him as the Messiah, or to reject Him and kill Him. Jesus would have died for our sins even if everyone had accepted Him as Messiah, and worshipped Him as their Lord; He did not have to be killed by anyone. Look at what He said about this.
John 10 17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
Philippians 2 (NIV) 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Jesus, while here on earth as a 100% man, after all He was born from a human woman, was also at the same time 100% God. But He came to demonstrate that Adam and Eve could have lived a totally sinless life, if they had just obeyed God. So Jesus did nothing here on earth in His own strength, using His own divinity, but only did and said what God the Father told Him to. So all His miracles were done by God the Father, not by Jesus Himself. There are many statements, especially in the book of John, where Jesus spells this out.
John 5 19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.”
John 8:28 28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.”
John 12 49 “For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”
John 14:10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.”
The sins of the whole world, your sins and mine, plus everyone from Adam onwards, were placed on Jesus on the cross, during the three hours of darkness between midday and around three o’ clock. He was absolutely drowning in sin, and actually became sin, as we see above in 2 Corinthians 5:21 below. To pay for all those sins, Jesus had to die the Second Death, the death that sinners should die for themselves (“The wages of sin is death” Romans 6:23). But I know you will say, “But no-one can return from the Second Death, it is eternal death”. That is right, but please remember that Jesus never committed any sin Himself as a man, and He is also still 100% God, and because of that He could return not only from normal death, but also from the Second Death. So in 1 Corinthians 15:20 below, Jesus was actually the first Person to come back from the Second Death, and only because of that fact, are the dead in Christ able to be resurrected at the Second Coming of Jesus.
1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For He (God the Father) made Him who knew no sin (Jesus) to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, from Adam and Eve to the very end of time. Some would say that He only died for the people on the earth while He was here, and others say that He died only for the Jews, but they are all wrong. Jesus died for your sins, and for mine, as well as for the sins of everyone else. Here is the evidence.
John 3 14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”
1 Timothy 2 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is … not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
1 John 2 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Romans 3 21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus …
Romans 5 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
Romans 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
2 Corinthians 5 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
Hebrews 7 26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
When sin entered the world through the sin of Adam and Eve, humanity was separated from direct access to God. After Jesus died on the cross as the atoning sacrifice for our sins, we can now again come directly to God in prayer and worship, knowing that we have free salvation and eternal life if we believe and live in a close personal relationship with Jesus. Without the cross, that would have been impossible.
Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Colossians 2:15 (NIV) And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
I trust that this makes sense
