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Quotations:

	"Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise." Sam Pascoe 1
	"Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words." -- Francis of Assisi.
	"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Paul, Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV)

A place to begin:

1. A brief introduction to Christianity for persons unfamiliar with the religion. Topics covered are: its founders, history, and present status.
    
2. A more detailed introduction to Christianity
   This menu contains links to essays that describe:

   	A very brief introduction to Christianity
   	Who is a Christian?
   	Divisions among Protestant denominations (Some people look upon the Protestant wing of Christianity as composed of two or more separate religions.)
   	Differences between Roman Catholicism and conservative Protestantism (There are major gaps, and they are growing.)
   	How Christians interpret the Bible. (They start with different assumptions and reach totally different conclusions.)

3. Background information on Christianity, and why this website is very different from most religious sites.
   
   
   

About the Bible:

	Christian books in and out of the Bible: Content, stories, organization, origin, versions, inerrancy, forgeries, copying errors, inspiration, tools, early Gospels and Epistles that were never accepted into the Bible.....
	Codes in the Bible: Real, imaginary, or a hoax?
	The world and the Bible: archaeology; cosmology; prophecy; Wicca/Witchcraft and the Bible; are some Bible verses hate literature?
	Themes & topics in the Bible: A range of Christian interpretations about the Ten Commandments, abortion, anti-semitism, homosexuality, the role of women, predictions of the end of the world, salvation....
	Apparently immoral passages in the Bible: Incitements to genocide, intolerance, oppression, violence, etc. in the Bible.

Christian personalities:

God, Yeshua/Jesus, Mary, Saints, and, of course, Satan & demons

Christianity, the religion:

	Beliefs, creeds, history, practices, rituals, ecumenicalism, joint efforts, schismatic forces, holy days, trends, urban legends, hoaxes, relics, movies.
	Relations with, and comparisons to, other religions

Christian faith groups:

One source estimates that there are 34,000 separate Christian groups in the world.

We have attempted to sort them into:

	Four to seven meta-groups, (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism......)
	Three wings, (conservative, mainline and liberal)
	Fifteen Religious families, (Adventist, Baptist, Lutheran, Reform....)
	Dozens of denominations, (from the Amish to The Way), and
	Many systems of belief (Arminianism, British Israelism, Calvinism...)

Links to websites of Christian denominations, churches, para-church groups, etc:

	Official websites of Christian denominations
	Conservative Protestant websites
	Progressive & liberal websites
	Roman Catholic websites
	Other Christian websites
	Christian search engines & directories

Terms and Tools:

Religious terms, test, and tools:

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Inclusive religious web sites:

There are probably tens of millions of religious websites on the Internet. A Google search for "God" returned almost 500 million hits. Most describe and promote only a single tradition or faith group within a single religion. Some of the sites that do cover a broad range of faith groups are:

• Beliefnet.com discusses topics from all religions re: inspiration, spirituality, faith, news etc.
• Christian.com is a free social network dedicated to the entire Christian world.
• Patheos.com provides balanced views of religion and spirituality

References:

1. There are problems with this quotation:

   It has been variously attributed to Sam Pascoe, an American scholar and to Richard Halverson, former chaplain to the U.S. Senate. Pascoe is cited on the Internet as the author more than ten times as often as Halverson. A case can be made that Christianity did not start in Palestine. According to Acts 11, the followers of Jesus were first called Christians in Antoch. Also, the Romans imposed the name "Palestine" on the Holy Land only circa 135 CE, long after most or all of the books of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) were written. Finally, the first followers of Yeshua of Nazareth, led by Jesus' brother James the Just, considered themselves a new tradition within Judaism, not the followers of a new religion.

2. David Barrett et al, "World Christian Encyclopedia: A comparative survey of churches and religions - AD 30 to 2200," Oxford University Press, (2001). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store
3. We have been invited to exchange links with Jesus Christ Saves Ministries (JCSM).

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