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What is Christianity? The purpose of this book is to explain Christianity to you in simple terms, to show you how you can become a Christian, and to summarize what you must believe and how you should act as a Christian. The Christianity of which you will read in the following pages is Christianity as known and practiced in the apostolic age of the first century. A sincere attempt will be made to document accurately from the sacred scriptures every claim made about Christianity. What follows is an attempt to present to you Christianity without the additional traditions of men and women from the last 2,000 years. While most of these later traditions are harmless, some are erroneous and should be avoided.

Many people today are confused about what Christianity really is because they associate it with traditions which obscure the truth. Maybe you have been prejudiced against Christianity in the past, because you were turned off by an inadequate example of it in a church or in the lives of some individuals who called themselves Christians. If this is true for you, please read this book and judge Christianity by the ideal of what it ought to be, not the flawed attempt of some humans to be Christians. Judge Christianity by the standard given to us in the New Testament for what Christians and the church ought to be. Those who claim to be Christians may not live, worship, or teach as they should for a variety of reasons. Maybe they are ignorant of the whole truth. Maybe they have been misled by false teaching. Maybe they are hypocrites. Most likely they are sincere, but they have made some mistakes as all humans do. Please do not reject Christianity because of the failure of someone you know who claims to be a Christian. Judge Christianity by Jesus Christ. You will find that Jesus Christ, the author and founder of the Christian religion, will not disappoint you in any way. While his followers make mistakes, he is without fault.

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