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Christianity

Christianity is a highly successful monotheistic^[1] religion. The largest of the three Abrahamic religions by number of adherents, it emerged from 1st or 2nd century Judaism.

Christianity is divided into a multitude of sects, which are almost as different from each other as they are from non-Christian religions. The breadth of Christian belief and practice is enormous, reaching from the highly ritualistic Orthodox and Catholic Churches to other more austere Protestant ones and many many other small or large groups that defy easy categorization. The central tenet of Christianity is that Jesus Christ isGod; specifically, "God the Son" incarnated as a human on Earth in order to suffer, die and rise from the dead as a repayment to God for humansin. The sin in question is explained in the Bible as Eve's eating of a forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, some 5,000 or so years ago. Under the "New Covenant", anyone who believes in the Son of God can, by accepting this, dwell at God's side in Heaven in the eternal afterlife. All others will be tortured for all eternity.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his Only-Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. — John 3:16 [2] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christianity

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