Originally a splinter group of Jews practice Christianity and it quickly expanded throughout the non-Jewish community and throughout the Roman Empire. Came into existence when a Jewish teacher who claimed to be the Son of God, the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, whom the Jews had long been awaiting. Based on the Old and New Testaments of the Bible
Jesus Christ is the Son of God Forgiveness of sins and everlasting life is only achievable through the belief in the divinity, death, and resurrection of Christ