Why is there Christianity?

Answer 1

Opinion

Christianity exists because there are many people who attest to and have experienced the truth of Christ and his message, whether it be the intellectual, historical, archaeological, or scientific truth presented in The Bible. They find no need to suspend rational thinking or intelligence in order to believe because all harmonize perfectly. Many are involved in fulfilling the Great Commission of bringing the message of Christ's amazing work and presence to all people, despite intolerance and persecution against them and the message.

Christianity came about because of sin in the garden of Eden. You see in the beginning God made everything very good. But because of Adams disobedience sin came into the world. That sin was passed on to everyone who has every lived. No matter who you are or what good you may have done we have all sinned. All of us have take something that wasn't ours that is stealing even if it were a paper clip. Most of us have hated someone and if we have hated someone then we have actually committed murder in our hearts. Most of us have looked on someone to want to take them to bed, this is adultery if your married and fornication if you're not. Having said that, God knowing that people were this way, and yet loving us still, made a way for us to come back to Him. Because sin had driven us from Him. He sent Jesus to pay the price for us. To die in our place and be punished instead of us for something that He didn't do. This is why there is Christianity. Want to know more.

Christianity came about because of sin in the garden of Eden. You see in the beginning God made everything very good. But because of Adams disobedience sin came into the world. That sin was passed on to everyone who has every lived. No matter who you are or what good you may have done we have all sinned. All of us have take something that wasn't ours that is stealing even if it were a paper clip. Most of us have hated someone and if we have hated someone then we have actually committed murder in our hearts. Most of us have looked on someone to want to take them to bed, this is adultery if your married and fornication if you're not. Having said that, God knowing that people were this way, and yet loving us still, made a way for us to come back to Him. Because sin had driven us from Him. He sent Jesus to pay the price for us. To die in our place and be punished instead of us for something that He didn't do. This is why there is Christianity. Want to know more.

Answer 2

Catholic Answer

Christianity exists for one reason, and one reason only. "For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting. For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him. (St. John 3:16-17) When Our Blessed Lord came into the world, it wasn't just for a small Jewish nation in the first century, it was for everyone. So, Our Blessed Lord instituted His Church, which is His Mystical Body (See St. John 15:-14), to be with all His people through the world, and throughout time in the sacrament of His Body and Blood, which is the Blessed Eucharist. Christianity exists so that people may realize the love of God and respond to it so that they will be able to enter heaven and be happy with God for eternity, that is the sole end of Christianity. Each and every individual soul in this world is our brother and our sister, and how we treat them, is how we are treating Our Blessed Lord, and how we will be judged (see St. Matthew 25:31-46).
.
from the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Mystical Body of Christ:

The analogy borne by any society of men to an organism is sufficiently manifest. In every society the constituent individuals are united, as are also the members of a body, to effect a common end; while the parts they severally play correspond to the functions of the bodily organs. They form a moral unity. This, of course, is true of the Church, but the Church has also a unity of a higher order; it is not merely a moral but a mysticalbody. This truth, that the Church is the mystical body of Christ, all its members being guided and directed by Christ the head, is set forth by St. Paul in various passages, more especially in Ephesians 4:4-13 (cf. John 15:5-8). The doctrine may be summarized as follows:

• The members of the Church are bound together by a supernatural life communicated to them by Christ through the sacraments (John 15:5). Christ is the centre and source of life to Whom all are united, and Who endows each one with gifts fitting him for his position in the body (John 15:7-12). These graces, through which each is equipped for his work, form it into an organized whole, whose parts are knit together as though by a system of ligaments and joints (John 15:16; Colossians 2:19).
• 
  
• Through them, too, the Church has its growth and increase, growing in extension as it spreads through the world, and intensively as the individual Christian develops in himself the likeness of Christ (John 15:13-15).
• 
  
• In virtue of this union the Church is the fulness or complement (pleroma) of Christ (Ephesians 1:23). It forms one whole with Him; and the Apostle even speaks of the Church as "Christ" (1 Corinthians 12:12).
• 
  
• This union between head and members is conserved and nourished by the Holy Eucharist. Through this sacrament our incorporation into the Body of Christ is alike outwardly symbolized and inwardly actualized; "We being many are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one bread" (1 Corinthians 10:17).

Answer 3

Christianity exists because society seems to have always needed religion. It gives spiritual answers to why we are here, comfort in times of difficulty and hope for the afterlife.

Christianity offers high moral values and came at a time when the ancient Roman beliefs were beginning to be challenged, and new spiritual beliefs were being sought by many.

Regardless of the truth or otherwise of Christianity, it serves a need in society.