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Christianity: What is a Christian, belief in God and Jesus
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A Christian is a person who lives their life according to their belief in God and Jesus. They will accept the Biblical stories of His life, teaching, ministry, sufferings, death and resurrection, as summarised in the Creed/s (a collective prayer or prayers, where gathered Christians publicly affirm such faith). 

As ever, please allow for the fact that various parts of the wider Christian community may be selective as to precisely which elements in the stories they will accept and honour.

 

Christianity: What is a Christian, belief in God and Jesus
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10 Questions

1. Which, according to the Gospels, was the first Miracle that Jesus performed which showed His mastery over nature and His abundant generosity?
2. Which of the Disciples (originally named Simon) seems to have been closest to Jesus, despite a number of well-intentioned but impulsive blunders, and was given authority as 'the rock on which I shall found my Church'?
3. The only Gospel story in which we see 'an angry Jesus' is of the occasion when ...
4. A smart young man once challenged Jesus, to pin down what He meant by His sweeping encouragement to 'love others'. Jesus' response was to tell one of His famous, illustrative stories: which one?
5. Besides raising His voice on such occasions (as in Question 9), Jesus was also entirely unashamed to show his emotions by other means. The shortest verse in the whole Bible, in virtually any language or translation, is John 11:35 ~ usually rendered as 'Jesus wept'. Leaving aside the fact that the verse-divisions themselves are not intrinsic to the original text, this detail alone brings the story to a surprising and poignant pause.
But what was the cause of His tears on this occasion?
6. In the Parable of the Sower, what do the seeds represent?
7. In Jesus' day, as now, within traditional Judaism there were large numbers of complex and detailed rules for holy living. Someone once asked Jesus what was His simple key to living a Godly life, and, in the proverbial nutshell, He summarised the Ten Commandments in which of the following ways?
8. A surprising number of women called Mary appear to have played parts in Jesus' earthly life. Which of the following is NOT recorded in the Bible?
9. Conversely, what was the LAST healing miracle reportedly done by Jesus ~ if, for present purposes, we 'count out' the Crucifixion and Resurrection themselves, nor anything following those?
10. Why wasn't 'Jesus of Nazareth' born there?