What does it mean to be an Orthodox person? A short essay

This article is devoted to the gracious Christian theme. How can a child understand what it means to be an Orthodox person? This, on the one hand, is a very difficult question, but on the other hand, everything can only be explained with examples from life. Books and activities alone will not be enough. How can a schoolchild instill love for God and neighbor? This will be discussed below.

Adults are an example for children

A child is born without sins. After all, a newborn cannot offend, offend or hate anyone. From the age of three, when the baby begins to pay attention to the world around him and get acquainted with it, his worldview is formed according to what is here and now.

After 3-5 years, the child begins to learn both good and bad. Often children start fighting in the sandbox and calling them bad names. Where does this come from? Even if one child has a friendly family, but the other’s mother and father constantly argue, then the latter can now copy the behavior of his parents and pass on the negativity to his friends in the sandbox. This is how the chain develops.

Starting from the age of 7, a child should be able to distinguish good deeds from bad ones. What does it mean to be an Orthodox person? The answers to this question lie precisely in the actions of any person.

Good heart and good deeds

An Orthodox Christian often comes to the priest at church to repent of his sins. Which ones? In all. Sins mean not only bad deeds (hit, killed, stole), but also a state of mind (hatred, anger, irritation, envy).

Parents themselves should be kind, affectionate and caring people. Is it Christian when a mother screams at her child, hits her, and the child roars throughout the entire neighborhood for an hour? Of course not. If a child is naughty, then parents should act wisely, punish carefully and without scandals.

Children often inherit the character and habits of their parents.

A child from the age of seven is allowed to confess. What does it mean to be an Orthodox person in this case? To love the Lord God and all people, animals, birds. After all, love manifests itself not only in care, but also in compassion, help, and consolation.

The Apostle Paul once explained what Christian love is and how it is expressed. Namely: love cannot envy, demand, adjust to oneself, hate, exalt itself over someone, rejoice at the sorrows of a neighbor or be upset when he is happy. The holy apostle said many more words on this topic.

Not every school teachers touch on the topic of Orthodoxy. It is especially difficult for a child who grew up in an atheistic family or who was raised by people of other faiths, including Old Believers, to perceive this.

How, then, can you carefully explain to children what it means to be an Orthodox person? The answer for 4th grade, where children still understand little not only in spiritual life, but also in everyday life, can only be given by actions. How? Teach them to treat each other with respect.

In almost any class, pranks, quarrels, and insults happen. It is important to teach children to respect each other. Who in class constantly offends someone? Let the offender understand that you cannot do this. He needs to explain what mental pain is.

The offended person should be advised not to give in, to immediately forgive, forget and make peace. After all, evil has the ability to flare up and burn very painfully.

A short essay “What does it mean to be an Orthodox person?” will help children develop a sense of meaning. What does it mean? Not every adult understands why he lives. It's time to think about what life should be like in order to live it usefully.

It happens that an elderly person, before his death, admits that he does not want to die and is afraid, because he has done little good, has not repented before God, and in general has never thought about Him. The soul of the dying person feels that it is to the Lord that it will go to judgment.

Let children learn from an early age to love God and their family, friends and even enemies. After all, Jesus Christ loved and loves absolutely everyone, even those who killed him.

The Importance of Visiting the Temple

Adults do not always think about why they visit a temple. Is it just because it is necessary? This is wrong thinking.

There is a funny caricature on the Internet: a temple is drawn on the left and right, on the right is the inscription “to the temple” - and hundreds of people are standing, on the left it is written “to God” - and only about five people are standing.

What does this mean? Hundreds of people go to church just to light candles, write notes, and chat. And that small part of people comes to the temple to pray to God.

Children need to be taught to communicate with the Lord and pray. Preliminary preparation will help with this. For example, a children's Bible and the lives of saints. They talk beautifully about what it means to be an Orthodox person. Everything must become interesting for children, otherwise there will be no point.

Obedience

It is important for a Christian to be in obedience to someone. It is impossible to go with the flow without guidance from above. A small child must obey his parents and educators. If this does not happen, he will be in danger.

The soul of an Orthodox person is also in danger if he undertakes to independently guide himself in life. To prevent this from happening, you need to have a spiritual mentor in the person of a parish priest or an elder, for example.

It is important for children to obey not only their relatives, but also the priest in church.

What does it mean to be an Orthodox person during obedience? For example, a priest in confession will tell a child to stop hurting his classmate, because it is bad, God does not like his action.

This is obedience from the confessor. Parents can say the same. And that will be obedience. But why it is impossible to offend a classmate from a spiritual point of view, the priest can explain.

Once again, we can remind you of the importance of expressing your thoughts and ideas. What does it mean to be an Orthodox person? Let the children write an essay-reasoning on a similar topic specifically about the kindness of the heart and love for God.

Lives of the Saints

Lives will be an excellent example of Christian life. What is this? To be brief, this is the biography of a holy man. But such a work is written not as simple information, but as a textbook of life for Orthodox Christians who want to learn how to truly live. A holy man pleased God in life and served Him.

The author talks about this, gives examples of his exploits, good deeds and, of course, talks about miracles. It is important for a contemporary to know what it means to be an Orthodox person. A brief summary of the lives of the saints will help you figure it out.

There is no need to delve into ascetic teachings to understand what love for God and neighbor is.

Both children and adults, if they want, can become Christians. It is important to remember that love starts small. The world around us needs good people. The Holy Church will tell you what it means to be Orthodox and teach it through the Gospel and the lives of the saints.

Source: https://FB.ru/article/223866/chto-znachit-byit-pravoslavnyim-chelovekom-nebolshoe-sochinenie

“To be an Orthodox Christian is to be whole”

These stories were published by the Epiphany Parish in Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA; Orthodox Church in America).

Protestant church leader goes "to the East"

Jeff Morrison:

“I couldn’t imagine that I would ever become Orthodox. Like most Christians in America, I knew little about “Eastern Orthodoxy.” When I was studying, the main subject was history, but we were told very little about the Orthodox faith. I knew that there are Catholics (I was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church and grew up in this faith for about 7 years) and Protestants, who are divided into thousands of movements. He was tormented by the lack of unity in the Church. All denominations claimed that their teaching was based on the Bible: “We are second to none in understanding the word of God!” However, there were so many different interpretations and explanations of the Holy Scriptures! I didn’t know what to do about it: I could only pray for unity, try to follow the Bible and participate in the life of the church that did the same.

While in college, he felt called to professional ministry, so he served for several years as a pastor and youth leader in the Protestant church, working with Young Life[1] and the parachurch organization Navigators[2]. And then my parents extremely surprised us, their children: after many years of serving as a pastor and his wife in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod denomination, they announced that they were going to convert to Eastern Orthodoxy. I was shocked, desperate and embarrassed. But since I trusted my parents, knowing about their love for God and being rooted in Him, I decided that it was worth studying this faith myself more carefully. Thus began my eight-year journey to Orthodoxy.

Our (me and Petty, my fiancée - future wife) first encounter with Orthodox worship was extremely positive: I was in awe of awe, a sense of the enormity and holiness of God! The entire service was dedicated to Him!

I trembled with awe, a sense of the enormity and holiness of God! The entire service was dedicated to Him!

People around me didn't go out of their way to make me feel welcome, happy, sing my favorite songs, and sit comfortably in my place in the church pew (like Protestants). On the contrary: we stood throughout the service. Singing, prayer and reading the word of God immediately began - everything about God and for God's sake. And in the atmosphere of all this, I felt very significant, loved and appreciated by this immense God, whom everyone around me worshiped. It was amazingly beautiful, life-giving, deep and challenging.

Meanwhile, I loved the Protestant world and felt safe in it. Besides, that’s where I made my living.

Over the years, I “flirted” with Orthodoxy, became more and more attached to it, and even felt that I would inevitably one day become Orthodox. But I didn’t want to leave my little world, my “bread” and leave my comfort zone... I think that’s why the Lord last year called our family to Nashville (Tennessee) from Texas (where I felt at ease) and temporarily put an end to my work in churches. After an incredible “struggle” with God, I finally took the decisive step: my family and I became catechumens (i.e., “betrothed” to the Orthodox Church) and converted to Orthodoxy last June.

I have no regrets. Orthodoxy is beautiful, incredibly rich and deep. On the one hand, there is the amazing fullness of God’s grace; on the other hand, it is demanding in relation to my life and will, so that I live the life that God wants for me as His child. For this purpose, all the tools, resources and completeness are available here. But I still see that there is also a lot of beauty and truth in the Catholic and Protestant worlds. As a lyricist, I hope to set to music some of the ancient works of the Church Fathers, using their thoughts and prayers for instruction.

I am grateful to Orthodoxy for everything that I experience, see and learn about the amazing love and immensity of the Holy Trinity.

The path “from good to better”

Hansen family:

Hansen Family – The Church has always been the center of our lives. We grew up in nominally Christian homes, but left the church in our teens...

After flirting with ungodliness, we both became Christians in a Seattle megachurch in our 20s. We met at a Bible study group for singles, got married a year later, and had our first child a year later.

We spent the next 10 years working in the missionary field. I finished Bible college while Caroline took care of the children. He served as pastor of one church and then worked as a staff member for several large and growing churches. After five years of preparation and fundraising, we moved to Istanbul, where we learned the language and prepared for our ultimate goal - moving to Tashkent. This city is the key to Central Asia and the capital of Uzbekistan. The 50 million Muslim population of the entire Central Asian region still “remained unconverted.” It was with these thoughts that we arrived in Tashkent the next year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the Soviet Union was collapsing. We were perhaps the first Western missionaries in Tashkent for a whole century.

In Tashkent, Caroline's health was undermined, and we had to return to the States. At that time, someone gave me the book “Coming Home: From Protestantism to Orthodoxy” by Father Peter Gillquist (1938–2012) to read. At first glance, the story seemed crazy. Many members of the Crusade Campus became Orthodox Christians after careful study of church history. Although Gillquist's beliefs left me indifferent at the time, something still caught my attention. The author suggested reading the stories of the fathers of the early Church and comparing that Church with the church we visit on Sundays. In Father Peter's opinion, the honest reader will find the Church of the Martyrs very similar to the "Eastern Orthodox Church" and little similar to the Evangelical Church in America. I took his advice.

Yes, that's right. In the first 300 years of its existence, the Church produced thousands of martyrs, “conquered” the Roman Empire from within, and wrote much about its faith and practices. This is a Church whose dogmas have been confirmed by history and made irrefutable thanks to the martyrs. How dare a 21st century Christian living in comfort tell a 3rd century martyr that he has the “wrong Church”?

Would a comfortable 21st century Christian dare to tell a 3rd century martyr that he has the “wrong Church”?

And the Church in which the Christians of the era of the martyrs lived was “Eastern Orthodox”! Those Christians had a Church with a rigid hierarchical organization. They served and prayed “liturgically” and were ready to give their lives for faith in the real, sacramental presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

The Orthodox Church claimed to be that very Church of the martyrs, only “matured” and finally formed over time. Just as I, the child of my parents, gradually grew up and matured, the Orthodox Church claimed that it was “born” through the apostles, was “nourished” by the martyrs, “taught” by the Ecumenical Councils and over the years “reached maturity.”

I was fascinated and scared at the same time. If I could find the Church that has come down to us unchanged from the apostles, it would be a wonderful gift from a merciful God. On the other hand, if the Orthodox Church turned out to be what it said it was, it would mean a “tectonic shift” in our lives and families! I loved being a missionary. The church was the center of our family's life—the “rock” on which our marriage was “built.” If the Orthodox were right, we would have to change everything that mattered in our lives: faith, Church, marriage, family, friendships, careers.

In a nutshell: after a year of continuous effort, we were able to do it. At times, Caroline was sure that our family was falling apart. At times we were both very put off by the “Catholicism” of the Orthodox Church. “If there is a fundamental principle of evangelical theology, it is that everything Catholic is false” (we grew up with this). It was very difficult for us to understand the veneration of the Mother of God. It took a long time to begin to appreciate the Liturgy. Confession scared us... There were difficulties not only in matters of faith and family: I had to look for a new job.

Now, ten years later, our family is firmly rooted in Orthodoxy. Our children walked this path with us, and the choice in favor of Orthodoxy became for them an important milestone in the transition from childhood to adolescence. Caroline and I are growing in the love of our youth. Caroline had to amputate one lobe of her lung: the disease that forced us to leave Tashkent turned out to be lung cancer - doctors assure that the tumor was completely removed. The church continues to be the center of our family's life.

It only remains to add that our old friends from the evangelical churches find it difficult to understand our transition to Orthodoxy. They see this as a rejection of the church that sent us to Tashkent, as well as the friendship and prayers that sustained us there. This reaction is understandable, but it is very different from our understanding. As we see it, we have been given a chance to go from good to better. In our opinion, God undoubtedly acts in the Evangelical Church, but in the Orthodox Church He acts much more. We think that we have not “left the church,” but only moved into its heart. It is logical that our transition is difficult to understand, but we greatly appreciate the many evangelical Christians who have taught us and prayed for us over the years. We want to say to all of them: “Thank you! We invite you to take a closer look at historical Christianity in the Eastern Orthodox tradition."

The Kemper family: a 38-year search

Jackie Kemper:

The Kemper Family - Living in Reno, Nevada, our neighbors began attending the Evangelical Free Church. Although the church was small, it had excellent Bible teaching from five talented teachers, one of whom worked with the Qumran manuscripts before retiring.

After moving to Kennewick, Washington, we began attending the United Reformed Church. It was a very conservative Bible teaching church whose pastor was affiliated with the Crusade for Christ Campus[3] and was involved in prison ministry. For the 27 years we lived in Kennewick, our house (we lived next door to the church) was used as a Sunday school auxiliary and was the site of Wednesday night Bible study.

Don, my husband, was actively involved in the life of the parish as an elder and Sunday school teacher. I became interested in the interdenominational Bible Study Fellowship (BSF), which offers seven-year courses and has over 900 schools worldwide. I served in various capacities at BSF, and Don, a few years later, helped organize the BSF classes, where he was the head teacher for 17 years. He loved this ministry very much and was sad when we moved from Kennewick to Colorado to be closer to relatives.

In addition to church activities, we helped start the Young Life program in Kennewick. In addition, I was invited to speak at various retreats[4] for women. Although I was afraid of a nervous breakdown, this activity brought me satisfaction and a lot of joy.

Our son Ron graduated from college and decided to take a year off to attend Cannon Beach Bible College in Oregon before heading off to study nursing at the University of Washington. There he had an incredible experience studying under excellent teachers. After graduating from UW Medical School, Ron gained experience providing home health care, hospice care, and as an oncology nurse. Then he took a break from medicine for a while and studied IT, another passion of his. But he realized medicine was his calling and now works at Sky Ridge Hospital in Longtree, Colorado.

When Don retired, we moved closer to Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Our acquaintance with Orthodox Christianity began there thanks to our youngest son, Chris, who attends the Orthodox Church in Post Falls, Idaho. When he first told us about Orthodoxy, we were intrigued, but, being Protestant in our views, we found the teaching strange and confusing. We thought that this path was for our son, but not for us. The sign of the cross, candles, icons and incense were then beyond our understanding.

After several harrowing trips through the mountains to visit our daughter Rebecca and her family, we decided to move closer to them and moved to the Denver area. What a surprise we were when we learned that our daughter had also converted to Orthodoxy! Wanting to understand what transformed the lives of Chris and Rebecca, we began to read a sea of literature about Orthodoxy offered by our children, and also asked to go to church with Rebecca. She kindly took us to Saturday Vespers in a church that was so different from anything we knew, where people stand for 2-3 hours for the Liturgy, where there is singing, incense and icons. Fortunately, the literature she gave us to read, her own experience and observations prepared the ground for our entry into a new church life.

One of Don’s greatest desires was to find a Church where the original form of worship of Christ the Savior was preserved. Previously, we had been concerned for years that even conservative denominations were becoming increasingly secular and focused on the congregation and its needs rather than on the worship of the Lord.

That evening, when the three of us walked into an Orthodox church in Colorado Springs, Don and I were amazed by the experience. The service and form of worship convinced us that we had come to our home. We are so touched that God has deigned to bring us to this Church, where we experience exactly what our hearts have been striving for for so many years. On the eve of Pentecost 2007, we were united to the Orthodox Church, and our journey, which began in Reno 38 years earlier, took a new and wonderful turn. Our only regret is that it took so many years to come to Orthodoxy.

Ron Kemper:

– The main focus of my testimony will be different from what my parents said. For the first 13 years of my life, I grew up in a non-Christian family. Then my mother converted to Christianity. In 1969, she showed me the book “The Four Spiritual Laws of the Crusade Campus,” and I began to repeat the prayer from it to find Christ as my Savior. Our family soon began attending the Evangelical Free Church and then the United Reformed Church in Washington State, where we moved in 1973.

My experience in Protestantism was not particularly different from the experience of other adherents of this movement. He repeated the prayer for salvation and tried to live a spiritual life in obedience to the word of God as set out in the Bible. Knew that we must pray to the Lord, worship Him, study the word of God and be obedient to him; but it seemed that there were no systematic rules by which this could be accomplished. As a result, my spiritual life in Protestantism became something secondary and was reduced to Sunday morning services: reading the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule, singing 5 or 6 hymns and repeating to myself a 20-second prayer 4 or 5 times, in which I repented sins.

After almost 10 years in the faith, I heard from one pastor that every day we should devote 5 minutes to prayer and meditation on the Bible in silence - I added this to my rule. I opened the Bible to the first place I could find, read a little, and then said a short prayer: “Lord, see me through this day without accidents or flat tires” (I was worried about driving while in college). However, I thought little about God, devoting only a short moment to Him in the morning and an hour and a half on Sundays.

I went to medical school in 1978, and after graduating in 1980, I began working in an understaffed cardiology department in Phoenix, Arizona. Depressed by poor working conditions and despairing of his lonely existence, he decided to take a year off and attend a small Bible college in Cannon Beach. Having reoriented himself in life, he wanted to engage in Christian service, for example, in a floating hospital. The opportunity soon came, but then he found a good job as an oncology nurse at a large hospital in Tacoma, Washington. I perceived it as serving God. Not finding a single church that fully satisfied my ideas about brotherhood and Christian service, I began to regularly attend the Bible Study Fellowship. Finally, he was baptized incompletely into one of the main Protestant denominations. But in that church I saw an old problem: only symbolic attention to worship and the attitude: “What’s in it for me?” The most offensive thing is that I saw the same thing in my thinking. In the churches I attended, no one seemed to care where I was in my journey with God or what my relationship with Him was. There was no responsibility either to the Lord or to anyone else.

After years of emptiness, frustration, and apathy, my sister Rebecca suggested we go to an Orthodox church in Colorado Springs, where she was a parishioner. I went to Vespers on Wednesday with slight apprehension - being a Protestant, I didn’t know what to expect. As soon as I entered, I saw the icons, smelled the incense, heard the soft singing of the choir and saw the priest, Father Anthony, standing facing east. It was very obvious that all attention was focused on worshiping the Lord God. The presence of the saints living in heaven nearby was as obvious as the presence of the rest of the believers around.

The presence of the saints living in heaven nearby was as obvious as the presence of the rest of the believers around

I have never experienced such integrity in a worship service in my entire life - this was the true Church, the Body of Christ! The lack of a “for me” attitude was also encouraging – on the contrary, I saw humility at the service.

To be an Orthodox Christian is to be whole. The way we pray in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit is our confession of the entire Holy Trinity. Our veneration of icons, as I see it, includes the entire Body of Christ, including the saints who shone before us. Now I have gotten away from ignoring the entire fullness of the Holy Trinity in prayer[5]. My disbelief or ignorance towards our spiritual forefathers and foremothers has also gone away - they are not dead, but alive in Christ, they can hear and see us in the present. This integrity also includes confession of sins and accountability to Christ with the help or direction of His elder. All this allows me to now surrender my burdens to Christ, rather than trying to diagnose myself during “five minutes of prayer” as before. It also becomes clear that Bible study, prayer and fasting in Orthodoxy is a 24/7 process, not just during Sunday service or Bible study. This is an hourly, every minute and every second matter.

I still have so much to learn about Orthodoxy. This path is not easy.

But, as far as I understand, this is the only way that makes it possible to experience the fullness of life in Christ.

What does it mean to be an Orthodox person?

Books and activities alone will not be enough. How can a schoolchild instill love for God and neighbor? This will be discussed below.

How to write an essay

The offended person should be advised not to give in, to immediately forgive, forget and make peace. After all, evil has the ability to flare up and burn very painfully.

Let children learn from an early age to love God and their family, friends and even enemies. After all, Jesus Christ loved and loves absolutely everyone, even those who killed him.

Miscellaneous

In this section you can find articles on a wide variety of topics that are not included in previous sections. It is impossible to cover all aspects of Orthodoxy with several topics, since the Christian faith affects all, even the most insignificant, aspects of human life.

About animal burial
Five-pointed star in Orthodoxy
Eight-pointed star in Orthodoxy
Velikoretsk religious procession
Six-pointed star in Orthodoxy
Why is it a sin to play cards?
Orthodox goods and souvenirs from Jerusalem
Why you can’t wish good luck to Orthodox Christians
Church singing training

Essay

Encyclopedia
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Christianity

Christianity is one of the world religions based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Christianity is one of many religions. There are about three billion followers of Christianity.

The history of the emergence of religion.

Christianity originated in Palestine in the first century AD. The creator and spreader of religion is Jesus Christ. He carried out preaching activities: he walked around the world and told the truth of God. How it was? (from the Bible)

Birth of Christ. The Mother of God (or holy virgin Mary) gave birth to Jesus Christ, the son of God. The Virgin Mary was a pious woman. One day, God came to her in a dream and gave her a son. She named her born son Jesus Christ.

Jesus was half-god, half-man. They say he could heal people and many other miracles beyond the power of an ordinary person. When the boy grew up, he began to preach a new religious teaching - Christianity.

Obviously the religion is named after Christ.

Religion is based on several commandments. Jesus called to love your neighbor, help the sick and disadvantaged, and spoke about other moral principles. He also spoke about heaven and hell, about evil spirits and angels, about the immortality of the soul.

He himself went around the world in search of students and followers. On the road, he helped everyone in need and never refused help. The twelve apostles became his disciples. They were closest to Jesus than all the other followers.

These apostles received the gift of healing people. As you know, one of the twelve apostles turned out to be a traitor. Jesus had detractors who wanted the demigod dead. Judas the traitor agreed to hand over his teacher to his ill-wishers for 30 silver coins.

Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross.

Attributes of the Christian religion - cross, temple (church), icons, prayers, Bible, Gospel.

The religion of Christianity has found many followers. But there was a split of the single religion into three movements: Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism. In fact, there are many more movements in Christianity, for example, Lutheranism, Calvinism and others. But these three trends are the largest and most significant in the modern world. The schism occurred due to different views on religion of several churches.

Orthodoxy.

Orthodoxy was formed in the Eastern Roman Empire. The founder of the movement is considered to be Jesus Christ. Typically, an Orthodox church is a temple with domes, usually gold in color, decorated with icons inside, and it is customary to stand in the temple throughout the entire service. Church ministers are called priests.

Catholicism.

Catholicism appeared on the territory of the Roman Empire. It is considered a continuation of the early Christian religion. The Vatican is considered the center of government for all Catholic churches. The main pope is the Pope. Catholic cathedrals are buildings with blue or white domes; it is customary to sit in them throughout the entire service.

Protestantism.

Protestantism is a relatively young movement. It came about because many people in Europe were unhappy with the Catholic Church. Martin Luther sparked the emergence of the Protestant Church. The Protestant Church is very different from the above churches.

Christianity is one of many religions with different movements. Whatever movement or religion you choose, remember, God is one.

Option 2

One of the world's largest religions, and indeed the most widespread, is Christianity. This religion, which dates back more than 2 thousand years, is represented in all countries of the world.

What is the essence of Christianity

Christianity is a humane religion. According to its canons, a person must lead a righteous life in accordance with the 10 commandments, which are aimed at kindness and love for God and neighbors.

The book of the Bible, especially the New Testament, is sacred to Christians. Christians believe in one God and his son Jesus Christ, who gave his life and was crucified on the cross for the salvation of mankind.

In his life, Jesus did only good deeds: he treated the sick, helped the poor. At the same time, he lived very modestly and did not set his sights on wealth and power. The main thing for him was to save humanity and their souls. For this salvation, he sacrificed himself and Christians should take this kindness and love for others as an example, and also believe in his teaching.

When and where did Christianity originate?

Christianity began in the 1st century AD. in the homeland of Jesus Christ, in Palestine, which was under the yoke of the Roman Empire. Rome, conquering new lands, imposed unbearable oppression on the peoples of these lands, and the struggle against Roman lawlessness was suppressed.

And with the birth of Jesus Christ, a new movement appeared in the struggle for justice, in which everyone, rich and poor, was considered equal before one God. This movement in the name of Christ was called Christianity, and its followers were called Christians.

Christians were persecuted by the rulers and dealt with very cruelly. Gathering in communities secretly, mostly in caves, they were true to their ideals and refused to believe in the Roman gods or make sacrifices to them.

The sermons of Jesus Christ and his followers had a beneficial effect on the spread of this religion, and his martyrdom and miraculous resurrection further strengthened people's faith in one God.

And not only the poor, but also rich people took the side of Christianity, because they were satisfied with the ideas of humility and patience. So in 325, Emperor Constantine recognized this religion as the state religion in Rome.

As the years passed, the religion spread throughout the world and began to dominate other religions.

Currents in Christianity

Although the ideas of Christianity are united, there are differences in the essence of the doctrine. Christianity is divided into three branches: Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism. Within each branch there is also divergence in the teachings of the faith. But the essence of religion is the same.