1st century AD, the Christian for jewish of Jesus of Nazareth in today's
Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian area and inherited the jewish bible and many
cultural tradition, belief in god (god) created and dominate the world. It was
assumed that humans since ancestor for not complying with the law of god and
sin, and bitterness in death, only the trinitarian god, through Jesus Christ, to
survive. Jesus' birth and sacrifice themselves, save human, and marked the
weight model about god and human beings, to bring the Gospel of god's salvation,
announced the end of the old testament times. Jesus in the sermon in the process
of recruiting 12 apostles, to sacrifice on the cross, to make atonement for the
world. Jesus died three days after the resurrection, ascension 40 days after his
resurrection, in the 50 days sent the holy spirit come, opened up to today's
brilliant and development. [2]
Expression of the Christian faith is based on the bible as the core, to
generations of the apostles, churches, guild form file as a carrier of the
faith, such as the content is very rich. The "apostles creed" was in the church
and theologians recognized as the most admirable, summary of the most reliable.
Such as Christian (protestant) version of the "apostles creed" :
"I believe in god almighty father, creator of heaven and earth, I believe
that our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of god. Because of the holy spirit are
pregnant by the born of the virgin Mary, suffered under pontius Pilate, was
crucified, died and buried, fall in hell, the resurrection from the dead on the
third day, heaven, sitting at the right hand of father almighty god, and will
come from there to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the holy spirit,
I believe in the holy and the Catholic church, I believe the saints are
interlinked, I believe SINS are forgiven, I believe in the resurrection body, I
believe in eternal life. Amen!"
Jesus Christ, the son is the second in the trinity, he before Jesus Christ,
born of the father "all things by his creation" [3], is the redeemer of mankind.
We are all for the sake of he by the grace was to receive as children of god.
The origin of Jesus Christ is god and not man, he is to fulfill the will of god
save the world, by the holy spirit induction, childlike innocence woman Mary and
took the body, to become the world. [4] is known as "incarnation". Is the only
true god, Christian belief in the supreme god is the creator of the universe,
and dominated the world. There is only one god, but with the father, son, and
holy spirit (spirit), three as a only one true god, complete with an ontology.
The father also called father, god is omniscient, omnipotent, all love the Lord,
at ease, the everlasting god, the god is jealous. [5] Christianity believes that
the only true god, and against idolatry. The knowledge of god, glory to god, as
the primary purpose of life. [6]
The core of the Christian faith is: god upon the human perceptual world in
the body of Jesus, and Jesus about the nature of god and the possibility of
problem of human existence, is making its historical life people believe in our
minds. This is also one of the core of the Christian revelation. As fully god,
god is completely. He is a model of perfect life. No sin, no transgression, and
because of the great love of the world, completely obedient to god's will, under
the mo
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Is an important classic Christian, the bible in Christian, the bible has
supreme authority, is the only criterion of their faith and life. The specific
including "old testament" and "new testament". "The old testament" the jewish
bible, as from Judaism inherit. [27] encyclopedia volume and order, a slightly
different factions of Christianity. Most protestant denominations only admit
Hebrew originally, so only 39 volumes; Catholic is application of seventy child
Greek translation of the bible, and closed the book not found in the Hebrew text
of some Greek admiralty, seven Greek classics, such as close to 46. [27-28] "new
testament" is a classic of Christianity, a total of 27 volumes, including the
records of Jesus' life, words and deeds "Gospel", the narrative of the early
church ACTS, touted as the letters written by the apostles and the book of
revelation.
The bible in authors, not only individual's age, occupation, status,
writing environment also have very big difference. Moses is political leaders,
Joshua's military leader, David and Solomon king, Daniel is the prime minister,
Paul could be jewish law, Luke is a doctor, Peter and John was a fisherman, Amos
is the shepherd, Matthew is a tax collector. Some writing in the imperial
palace, some are in prison or exile island; Written in a military war, in the
new millennium is complete; Some written in the climax of joy, and some are
written in the trough of grief and disappointment. The bible mane written books
are independent, after written in every synagogue or the Christ church to read.
Christians believe that god is the true author of the bible, is the word of god.
[29]
Development along with the spread of Christianity, the bible has become
today the most popular and the largest circulation of books. According to the
university of Cambridge in England a books management agency statistics, since
the birth of Christianity, has been issued to the global, sold more than 100
copies so far. [30] in more than 2000 years is regarded as the treasure of world
culture, the bible has been translated into 200 languages, however mankind in
the bible also paid a huge hard on evaluation and cost.
The passage of the Christian bible in Chinese now is KJV bible, its origin
dates back to one hundred years ago in the late qing period. There were three
versions, namely, "the liberal arts and translation", "light coherence and
translation" and "mandarin and translation". The mandarin and translation of
them is the most widely circulated later Chinese nasb. The translation of the
new testament was completed in 1906, 1919, the new old testament to complete.
Due to the reason of The Times, the text characteristic adopted half literary
and half vernacular style. Based on this version, the bible society in 1989, to
adopt new punctuation, new type), published in the new punctuation nasb ". Nasb
the important contribution can not deny the fact that over the past century of
Chinese Christian (protestant) is directly influenced by its deep, just due to
the limitation of time, some new contacts have difficulty reading, so some of
the new Chinese version also appeared. So, in addition to the nasb Chinese bible
The Chinese Christian
1. Introduced to the history of Christianity
Tang dynasty nine years (635), the same of Christianity, was introduced to
China, called "nestorianism. Emperor taizong, two toward the emperor,
nestorianism by tolerance, obtained the very big development, so that the states
are generally built nestorianism temple, called "flow" ten "cities" temple with
the prosperity of the situation. But making-friends five years (845) by the
court banning the Buddhism was spread, and interrupt transmission in the central
plains region. [41]
Again when the yuan dynasty was introduced into the Catholic church and the
same to take off the pie, known as "also can be warm in teaching" or "cross
teaching". By the 1330 s when christians has amounted to 30000 people. The scope
of its activities, besides, jiangnan, mostly farthest frontier regions such as
xinjiang, Mongolia. The pie in the Mongolian nobility and court officials to
accept more, but not widely among the people, as the yuan dynasty after the
demise of the disrupted. [41]
Matteo ricci
Matteo ricci
Ten years Ming wanli (1582) Catholic by the jesuit missionaries introduced
into again, represented by matteo ricci missionaries brought a large number of
western science and technology and cultural knowledge, and promote China's
astronomy, calendar, the development of water conservancy and other fields.
Especially when the spread of Chinese culture to the west has made an
outstanding contribution. Officials such as the present China are rushing to be
baptized, and at that time the court inside and outside the literary
intelligentsia class has more than 500 people to proselytize. The story of
emperor kangxi close contacts with missionaries and Christian wrote many poems
and couplets, can be said to be the Christian relationship with China. In the
18th century qing dynasty for "etiquette" in China and the forbidden. [42]
The end of the 17th century Russian orthodox church missionary church
building legislative start in heilongjiang province June, then also set up a
church in Beijing. In 1715, Russia sent the first missionary group in Beijing.
Qing yongzheng five years (1727) after signing the horses treaty between China
and Russia, the missionaries become permanent body in China. From 1715 to 1956,
a total of 20 of the Russian orthodox church in Beijing missionaries to China.
[40]
In 1807, protestant missionaries Morrison to guangzhou, this is the
beginning of protestant was introduced into China. After the opium war factions
of Christianity was introduced into China in great quantities, again because of
the mission of the protection of the unequal treaties and produce many lesson
plans (e.g., tianjin incident, shandong juye lesson plans, the boxer rebellion,
etc.) and the Christian movement in 1922.
Since the beginning of the 20th century Chinese christians to a Chinese
church. After the May 4th movement in 1919, the Catholic church in China
implement the "Chinese style" measures, a lot of wonderful Chinese clergy.
Protestant factions of the conference in Shanghai in 1922, put forward the idea
of "church" and "autotrophic, autonomy, autobiography," the principle of "three
self", and set up the national Christian council. After 1949 Chinese church
gradually cut and will and bad will contact foreign missionary, and access to
its independent development period. [31]
2. The status quo of Chinese Christianity
Since the era of emperor taizong's arrow (635), since Christianity in China
has a history of nearly 1400 years. Protestant Christian from Morrison to China
in 1807, has 200 years of history. Since the reform and opening up, the
religious policy implementation and social and economic development, the Chinese
Christian not only rapid recovery, and there is a striking development, become
the domestic cultural and ideological circle, academia, political problems of
mutual interest. Reason, however, due to various complicated difficult for over
30 years of reform and opening-up, also known as "contemporary" Christian
development condition, because of the lack of comprehensive, objective and
in-depth investigation and study, so it is difficult to complete the real face
to show to the world.
According to the Chinese people's university about the religions to adapt
themselves to the socialist the conclusions of the study of China Christianity
is the contemporary China, including Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, five major
religious legal religious, with the most to adapt to the socialist modernization
drive, the highest degree in modern religion. [43]
Research conclusion about the number of Chinese christians differ, the most
authoritative data from August 11, 2010, the third session of the BBS and
contemporary religion in China in 2010 "the blue book of religion" conference of
the Chinese academy of social sciences published for the first time about the
Christian survey data, this is also the national 31 provinces, autonomous
regions and municipalities directly under the central government Christian
household survey data released for the first time, according to the survey: our
country existing christians make up about 1.8% of the total population, the
total number of an estimated 23.05 million people. Some scholars also estimates
the existing number of christians is about 70 million people, foreign individual
scholars claim that more than 100 million christians in China. [44]
Introduce here today! Behind will be in China the practice of different
religious system and the specific training methods do the introduction, of
course, it's just that I can be collected, the church tradition in China for a
long time have exclusive practice methods and characteristics
