Along with Buddhism, Christianity is one of the world religions with the largest number of adherents. Christianity is a collective term for the characteristics of the three basic directions: Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism.

In the center of Christianity is the image of the God-man-Jesus Christ, who suffered his martyrdom on the cross for the sins of mankind, but thereby removed from him these sins, reconciled the human race with God. And by his resurrection he opened for those who believed in him a new life, a way to rejoin God in the Divine Kingdom. Christ is translated from the Greek as “anointed”, “Messiah”, Savior. This common name of Jesus Christ is associated with the old Testament traditions about the coming to the land of Israel of the prophet, the Messiah, who will free his people from suffering and establish there a righteous life-the Kingdom of God.

The Holy book of Christians is the Bible, which consists of two parts. The old Testament is the Holy book of the followers of Judaism and the New Testament, which sets out the most important stages of the life of the Creator of Christianity-Jesus Christ and the main provisions of his teachings.

Christianity emerged in the first century of the new era on the territory of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire in Palestine. A new era and begins its countdown from the time of the birth of Jesus Christ.

We learn the Christian version of the life, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ from three kinds of sources. The first kind is the canonical books of the New Testament. They are called canonical because their text has been recognized as”inspired by God.” Non-canonical writings are not considered “divinely inspired”, but neither are they rejected by Christian churches. This “gospel of Nicodemus”, “Persoanele Jacob Jew”, “Books about the Nativity of the virgin Mary”, the “Book of Joseph the Carpenter”, “the Teaching of the 12 apostles” and others”. The third category of Christian sources is the writings of the “fathers of the Church” – early Christian thinkers, defenders and propagandists of the Christian doctrine in the first two centuries of its existence: Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tatian, Tertullian, Clement, etc.

Christ is born in Bethlehem. This justifies the words of the Hebrew prophet Micah, who said that a leader would come out of Bethlehem to save the people of Israel. “The Magi came to Herod the king of Judah and said to him: where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him.”

Herod was alarmed, and all the people of Jerusalem were with him. Having secretly learned from the Magi the time of the appearance of the star, Herod instructed to find the baby. “Star that we saw in the East all the time went before them till it came and stood where the young child was”. Then the sages saw the child with Mary, worshipped him, gave him gold, frankincense and myrrh, and went away to their country.

In a dream, Joseph is ordered by an angel of the Lord to flee with the infant and its mother to Egypt, as Herod is about to kill the infant Christ. Herod orders the killing of all infants under 2 years of age. And when Herod dies, the angel again appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and orders him to go to the land of Israel. Then Joseph in a dream is instructed to go to the land of Galilee and settles in the city of Nazareth.”

Evangelist Luke also believes that Jesus ‘ parents Mary and Joseph-always lived in the city of Nazareth and were in Bethlehem in connection with the census. According to the decree of Emperor Augustus on the census, each family had to come to the city where the head of the family came from. Joseph was from Bethlehem, and so he was there with his pregnant wife, who there gave birth to a son, Jesus.

Some differences between the two Gospels are also apparent in the presentation of the genealogy of Jesus. The gospel of Matthew fits the genealogy of Jesus under a special kind of Trinity-All kinds from Abraham to David-14, from David to the migration to Babylon-14, from the migration to Babylon to Christ-14. According to this genealogical chain it turns out that Jesus is a descendant of the Jewish kings: David, Solomon and Rehoboam. In other words, the prophesied Messiah, the Savior of the people of Israel. Evangelist Luke holds the same version, but it turns out that from David to the birth of Jesus Christ was only 28 generations.

These and other inaccuracies and contradictions in the New Testament, as well as problems of interpretation of biblical texts, have given rise to doubts about the historicity of the image of Jesus Christ.

The French thinker of the eighteenth century, Charles Du Piet, sought to prove that Jesus Christ is a solar deity borrowed by Christianity from the Eastern religions and that all the events of his life, set forth in the Gospels should be perceived as astral allegories.

Another, historical school considered Jesus Christ a real person, a preacher of a new religion, who formulated a number of fundamental ideas that laid the foundations of Christianity and did not renounce their teacher.