July 1st 2025

In recent months and, if I'm being honest, for many many years, I've missed the community of church.  Maybe not the doctrine, and definitely not the Politics of Catholicism, but the community.

The "Experience" of church; of a group of likeminded people coming together at a specific time to try to improve themselves spiritually while uplifting each other.

So I define Christianity as trying to live life as Christ did; with kindness, empathy, compassion, and love.

In that narrow definition, I'm a Christian; and that's just where I'm at in this moment of my life.

-Mitchell Pennell 

Excerpt from:Exercise 6 Monotheism from Jedism Journal

MONOTHEISM

Defined as : The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. Monotheistic belief is found in many cultures and within main "Mainstream" faiths; including : 1) Christianity, 2) Islam, and 3) Judaism. There are Many sub-sections within earch faith, so in order to keep this from being 5 pages long I am going to focus on just these 3.

Christianity is a faith based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.Their scripture is known as "The bible" (old and new testament) The main emphasis of this faith in it's practice is that Jesus was a child born of a virgin because he was the human incarnation of God. He started performing "miracles" from curing the ill, to granting sight to the blind, or the ability to hear to the deaf. ( this paralled the older teaching of Buddhism and stories of the miraculous events of the buddahs birth/ read my definition of Buddhism for more)
He preached around isreal and Rome until he was captured, and crucified. The church views this event as destiny that Jesus died for our sins, so that the Only way to reach heaven you must believe the parentage myths and the teachings of Christ.

Islam: Claims that the Prophet Abraham is the ancestor of the Isrealites, while his son Ishmael in seen as the ancestors of the Arabs in Muslim tradition.
Their main scriptures are known as "The Quran" and is viewed as "The word of God" and describes itself as a book of guidance, occasionally offering detailed accounts of specific historical events and often emphasizing the moral significance of an event over it's narrative sequence.

Judaism: Derived from the Greek from "Judah". Judaism is the religion,philosophy, and way of life of the Jewish people. There are many subsects of Jewish faiths, but the major teachings follow the Torah, and include the Belief that, unlike Christianity, the messiah has not come to earth yet. There are many other moral guidelines, and cultural teachings. ( such as the standings of women, proper ethical behavior, and Gods involvement if daily life.)

Sources:
1.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism
2.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
3.m.wikipedia.org/Quran
4. "american Heritage Dictionary
5.My childhood teachings of Christianity/ bible study.