Christianity vs Theism - What's the difference?
christianity | theism |
An Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian Bible.
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Christendom
(belief system) Belief in the existence of at least one deity.
(belief system) Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
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As nouns the difference between christianity and theism
is that christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian Bible while theism is belief in the existence of at least one deity.christianity
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Noun
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- As a result, Christianity developed as a separate religion from Judaism.
Hypernyms
* religion, monotheism, AbrahamismSynonyms
* ChristianismCoordinate terms
*Derived terms
* muscular ChristianitySee also
* Christian * (wikipedia) * English eponymstheism
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- The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses.