What is Christianity

WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? What is Christianity? This is a question I had never truly thought about before taking the class The Christian Religious Tradition. Being raised a Catholic I simply believed what I was told to believe, and went to mass and Sunday school every week. I have never in my life stopped to think about what it means to be an actual Christian. Most Christian denominations teach that man is sinful and can never …

…religion of Christianity as a tradition is the diversity within the religion. There is irony in that statement in the fact that what unites Christianity is its diversity, but this is a beautiful irony. As my mother so simply put it, " Christianity is trying to live life as Christ would live it." Her short definition is a perfect example of the beautiful simplicity that exists within the huge diversity that constitutes Christianity as a religion.