The philosophy of Christianity is a way of life. It involves the reason for human life, why we were created and sustained by God and nourished by His Spirit, and lastly, to we are destined to be in the future. The word "life" by which Christianity is denominated is interpreted by its profound and expansive usage as promoted and detailed by the apostle John in his Gospel. He writes: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was  life, and the  lifewas the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it ¦.  [Christ Jesus is]  the true light, which enlightens everyone" (John 1:1-9 NRSV). This is the true "life" that mankind must adopt. Its acceptance by humanity makes Christianity to be a  Philosophy  of Life. It is our emulating and living that particular "Life" that enlightens us with unlimited truth and in an inseparable way it unites us with the personality and the bodily presence of Christ Jesus. The apostle Paul gave an example for himself and all people on earth to follow. He said:"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ"  (I Corinthians 11:1). This is the first principle of Christianity. It is the perfect example that we should all be following in our manner of life and in setting our standards of conduct. That individual who is center stage to the whole issue is Christ Jesus. No one can improve on the principles of life that governed the whole behavior of Christ. We are told that He pleased the Father in ALL things that He did (Matthew 3:17), and we are commanded to devote our way of living along a similar path that is constantly glorifying God and Christ Jesus. "Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (I Corinthians 10:31). So, the  life  that each of us should lead, should be the same type of  life  that existed in Christ Jesus. By walking in that path, we will be promoting and exercising proper principles of  life  that will be well-pleasing to the Father in heaven. Their application is not a religion of outward devotions that embrace ritualistic maneuvers within a mere physical environment. They go much farther than that. It is to mimic and to exalt the kind of philosophy of life that motivated all the spiritual actions of Christ while he was on earth. The  life  of Christ is our example ” and our  only  example. It is the measurement of righteousness that we should set to follow and to promote. Walking in the footsteps of Christ has the effect of elevating the teachings of Christianity out of the realm of outward religion and places it squarely with the confines of a proper spiritual philosophy ” a real Philosophy of Life that brings us within the community of the divine. We Are Inseparably Attached to Christ Christians are intrinsically connected by a type of spiritual umbilical cord to Christ. The Scriptures show that the lives that we lead are phased into a conscious and intimate existence with Christ himself. The apostle Paul on numerous occasions referred to all Christians as being personally "in Christ." Indeed, Paul went on to state that each of us has his and her origins "in Christ." We thus emanate  from  him, we are sustained  through  him, and we are constantly guided  to  him as he sits on his divine throne in heaven (Romans 11:36, where the three prepositions are emphasized). That's right. We are reckoned in the Father's eyes to be sitting on the same throne in heaven that Christ now occupies and that throne is located directly on the right side of the Father (Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 3:1). We are exalted so much to be "in Christ" that the Father acknowledges us as having merged into the same type of divine personality as if we represent a renewed "Christ-like" personality who is judicially reckoned as being co-bodied with Christ Jesus himself. Yes, so much are we accounted to be "in Christ," that though the Holy Scriptures make it certain that Christ is the only Firstborn of all things in a biological and chronological sense. All of us Christians (individually and collectively) are also awarded the same recognition in being called the  firstborn ones  of God (see Hebrews 12:23 where the word "firstborn" is plural). In a legal sense, each of us in God's eyes is the microcosm of the singular Christ, while the singular Christ is the macrocosm of the totality of the human race which has existed within all the periods of chronological time from the foundation of the world. Each of us was actually chosen to be saved "in Christ" before the creation of the world (II Timothy 1:9). This was long before any of us came into human existence within the past century of time. Christ is a Substitution for Each of Us Our whole life is centered around and through the actual  li