Salvation is believed to be possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus, offering new life to those who have faith in him. For Christians, Jesus is the face of God and the way to God. Influenced by it Jewish origins and its encounter with Greek or Hellenistic philosophy and culture, Christianity spread to various parts of the world and today is the largest religion with about 1.8 billion members. Sea of Galilee, Israel Christianity teaches that all things were created by God as an expression of divine love. Time had a beginning and will have an end which will be followed by a Judgment upon humans.
All human beings are to live forever in a condition dependent upon that judgment.
It is believed that God acted through the writers of the Bible to express and reveal the divine truths and purposes. Adapting and adopting much from Judaism, the Christian movement created a community of believers that came to be known as the Church from a word that means an assembly called together by God. Differences of theology, authority, biblical interpretation, etc. led to divisions within the Christian community so that today the main branches of Christianity are Protestantism , EasternOrthodoxy and Roman Catholicism . In modern times there developed the ecumenical movement within Christianity with the purpose of overcoming past divisions and hostilities. Christianity developed doctrines understood to be statements that convey central truths of the faith.