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Christianity which was founded in Palestine as a breakaway sect of Judaism by the followers of Jesus Christ around 2,000 years ago. Christianity as a system of Christian beliefs, as a Way of Life, and as a communal tradition has spread to nearly every country of the world and now has around two billion adherents, mostly in the Americas and in Europe where it has made a significant historical and cultural impact. Over the years, many divergent sects of Christians developed because of dogmatic disagreements, Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Seventh Day Adventist to name a few. Most of them share a core of common beliefs.
This article is a brief
generalized synthesis and synopsis of Christian Spiritual Beliefs. For an extensive updated
Background and Overview of Christian Beliefs and Traditions over the Ages please
see the Christianity Christian Biblical Trinity Background Beliefs Overview Traditions
pages. Christians believed in the writings in the Bible. The Bible was considered a Divine Library or collection of inspired writings, holy scriptures, and sacred volumes of Christianity which along with the apostolic truths of the Christian revelations in the New Testament also included Old Testament books of the Jews.
Heaven to Christians was a home on high in the upper regions of the stars, the blue firmament, where the Divine Godhead dwells in light and grandeur in the happy abode of the blessed and the just. Christianity originated in the heart of the Trinity whose divine nature is love. Divine Love had the urge to create, to multiply love, to share itself, so the Godhead created others. Jesus Christ's life and teachings were in themselves a devotion to this Sacred Heart of the Trinity. As God made Man, Jesus Christ's intimate knowledge of Divine Love was epitomized by his own compassionate, loving heart, as well as, his whole emotional and moral life, and his sentiments and virtues. The unified Divine Godhead called the Trinity consisted of three coeternal, coequal persons, the Father, the Mother (Holy Spirit, Divine Grace, Hallowed Grail), and the Child (Sons and Daughters). Each of these three aspects was totally distinct from the others.
According to scriptures,
Salvation meant liberation of the individual or humanity from the consequences
of sin, suffering or evil...
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