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==In Christianity== | ==In Christianity== | ||
[[File:Bosch Eden.jpg|400px|thumb|''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' panel one by Hieronymus Bosch]] | |||
Christian doctrines include the belief that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Christian Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement for sin, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, from where he will return. | Christian doctrines include the belief that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of a virgin named Mary, performed miracles, founded the Christian Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement for sin, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven, from where he will return. | ||
The Nicene Creed asserts that Jesus will judge the living and the dead either before or after their bodily resurrection, an event tied to the Second Coming of Jesus as described in the [[Book of Revelation]]. | |||
The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as | ===Conflation with Yahweh=== | ||
Christians believe Jesus enables people to be reconciled to [[Yahweh|God]]. | |||
The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as a physical incarnation of God the Son, the second of three persons of the Trinity. They believe that Jesus has always existed and was the same God encountered by [[Abrahamic religion|Abraham]] and Moses, as well as the deity who created the Universe and humanity. Many Christian artists depict the God of the [[Bible]]'s Old Testament as Jesus Christ, such as [[Hieronymus Bosch]] showing Jesus in the [[Garden of Eden]] with Adam and Even in his painting ''The Garden of Earthly Delights]]. | |||
A small minority of Christian denominations, such as the [[Cathar]]s, reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. | |||
==Textual history== | ==Textual history== | ||