Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Religions

There are five major religions that are important to know; the first being Christianity.

Christianity
There are around 2.2 billion people who have Christianity as their religion which is the largest amount of people adhering to a religion in the world.
They are called Christians.
They are geographically located in Europe, the Americas, and Southern Africa.
The denominations include the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Protestants (Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and many more).
The founder of the religion is none other than Jesus Christ (in which Christianity is Abrahamic origin).
The holy book Christians use is the Bible (mainly the New Testament in which the Gospels are located).
Their beliefs include Jesus being both human and divine - the Son of God; He led, a virtuous life; He was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected after three days spent dead; He ascended into Heaven where He reigns with God the Father.
Their clergy is the Pope who is the head of the Catholic Church and have priests and minsters that are local authorities.

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