In our entire universe, there's only one actual God or Deity or Supreme Being or Divine Being, and there's only one true religion (that we call Christianity). Therefore, with one exception, all other religions, spiritual beliefs, cults, deities, gods or goddesses, supreme beings, divine beings, divine energies, nature spirits, universal consciousness, atheism, etc., that people believe in are false. No matter how strongly and deeply people believe in them, they're all just someone's inventions. They're all just made up, so not a single one of them is real. The only exception is Judaism, which was originally from God but went offtrack and became a false religion, and was superseded by Christianity. The Christian God (the only God) will do miracles for any Christian to prove all of that (see my article in the previous section).

God lives in heaven, which is everywhere outside of a physical universe. At some point, He decided to create our physical universe, and the earth, and the 1st 2 humans (that we call Adam and Eve) and animals and plants and so on. He created all of those 6,000 years ago (with the appearance of being very old).

He also created numerous angels to do various tasks, but one of them (that we call the devil) rebelled against Him and wanted to be in charge. He took about one-third of the angels (that we now call demons) with him in his rebellion. They hate God, and they hate all humans because God loves all humans, so they're completely malicious at all times. However, they can only do what God allows them to do. God allows them to be malicious because they're unwittingly helping to accomplish His plans and purposes, but as created beings they don't have even the tiniest fraction of His power.

As physical beings in this physical universe, we can't understand who God really is, but in the Bible He tells us that there's one God who eternally exists in 3 divine Persons that we call the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. We can't understand how that's possible, but they're not 3 separate Gods, and they're not 3 different roles that God takes on at different times. They're all part of each other, all spiritually one, yet the Bible describes each one of them as God all by Himself (none of them are female). Therefore, we refer to them collectively as the Trinity (the three-in-one) or the Godhead.

God wanted to have a personal, close, loving relationship with humans, and we all would have had the best, safest, and most effective lives possible if we had obeyed Him and followed His guidance. He gave Adam and Eve (and their descendants, meaning all humans) complete authority over this world. However, Adam disobeyed God (the Bible often uses the word sin when referring to our disobedience), which had drastic consequences. It caused every human after Adam and Eve (with one exception) to be born with sin (disobedience) in their hearts (which is passed down to every child through every biological father), which broke our relationship with God (because He has a zero-tolerance policy toward sin). It also allowed the devil to take all of Adam and Eve's authority over this world as the legal conqueror (until he himself is conquered).

In the 1st century AD, God chose a Jewish woman named Mary (betrothed to a Jewish man named Joseph) and miraculously caused her to become pregnant (so we call her the Virgin Mary). We call her son Jesus, or Jesus Christ, or the Son of God, and He was not born with any sin in Him because He was not biologically conceived by a human father. God needed to come to earth as a human baby (that we call Jesus) because this world was created for humans to have authority over it, and the 1st human gave up that authority to a usurper (the devil), so it was up to a sinless human to take back that authority from the devil. But no human could do that because when the devil took control of this world, all humans were then under his authority as slaves to sin, even though most of them have not understood that fact. By having a virgin birth, Jesus was not under the devil's authority and was not a slave to sin (Jesus did not have a biological human father so He was not born with any sin in Him). By living a completely sinless life (meaning that He obeyed everything that God required, which no other human has ever done) and allowing Himself to be executed (crucified on a cross), Jesus destroyed the devil's authority in this world, and Jesus now has the conqueror's legal right over this world. After being dead for essentially 3 days, Jesus rose from the dead and is now in heaven. Before being born on earth He was 0% human and 100% God. On earth before the cross He was 100% human and 100% God, both at the same time, but He never used any of His own divine power, not even once. After being resurrected from the dead He is now 0% human and 100% God once again. Someday soon, He will return to the earth and take His rightful place as its ruler.

Thousands of years ago, out of all of the nations of the world, God chose a group of people called the Israelites (or the Jews) to be His special people, from whom His Son (Jesus) would eventually be born. One of those Israelites (named Moses) had a lot of faith in God, so God spoke through Moses, delivering a contract between Himself and the Jews (that we now call the Old Covenant). This contract contained 613 laws (that the Bible collectively calls the Law of Moses, or just the Law), and 10 of those laws are called the Ten Commandments. That contract was only for the Jews (for them to receive great blessings based on their obedience), so all of the other nations in the world (collectively called Gentiles) never had to obey the Ten Commandments or any of the other laws under the Old Covenant. With one exception, not a single person ever properly obeyed all of those laws. When Jesus died on the cross, He had fully and properly obeyed all of those laws. With Jesus' death, the Old Covenant was fulfilled and completely canceled, and a new contract (that we call the New Covenant) was instituted between God and all humans.

Starting in the time of Moses, Jesus wanted people to know some things about Himself, so He prompted various people to write some things down. The 39 books that He wrote through human authors before He was born on earth as a human baby are collectively called the Old Testament, and the 27 books that He wrote through human authors after He died and was resurrected and went back to heaven are collectively called the New Testament. All 66 books are collectively called the Bible (also called Scripture). Even though those 66 books were written by different humans in different time periods, the Bible is not just a collection of different books, but instead it contains a unified story throughout all 66 books because they were all written through the inspiration and prompting of Jesus, and they all say what He wanted them to say. When Scripture passages are properly understood, there are no errors or contradictions at all in those 66 books, partly because most of the Bible is not meant to be taken completely literally. We're supposed to ask Jesus for the proper understanding of Scripture passages rather than taking them literally or at face value.

The Old Testament contains numerous prophecies about the Jewish Messiah, whom the Jews believed would be a great King, bring about political sovereignty for the Jews, provide protection from all of their enemies, usher in world peace, and do other amazing things. On earth before the cross, Jesus was the Jewish Messiah and He fulfilled many of the prophecies about the Messiah, but He'll fulfill the rest of those prophecies after He returns to the earth (which we call the Second Coming).