What do Coptic Christians believe?

Answer 1

A Coptic Christian is a person who belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Coptic means Egyptian in the Coptic language (Evolved language from the Ancient Egytpian language). However since the Islamic/Arab conquest of Egypt, it refers to Christians, namely the Eastern 'Oriental' Orthodox sect.

The Coptic Orthodox church was founded by St.Mark and belongs to the Eastern 'Oriental' Orthodox church, not the Eastern Orthodox, because of a schism, heresy or misunderstanding between definitons on the nature of Christ.

The Coptic Orthodox church is headed by the Pope and Patriarch of all Alexandria, Pope Shenouda the Third. Note the word Pope was used by the Coptic church before the Catholic Pope asserted primacy, hence the title of Bishop of Rome. However it is not used in the same way as the Roman Catholics do, which means authority, but as the word 'father' in latin, while Patriarch is 'father' in Greek.

If you know nothing about Coptic Christians you may know that the Nicene Creed was written by one of its fathers. Rosary beads and Monastacism originated from one of its saints and most of the martyrs in Christianity were Coptic just to give an idea to other sects that may not be familiar.

Answer 2

Coptic Christians are Christians like any other and have many of the hallmarks of Christianity such as a belief in God, the Devil, Jesus' sacrifice for humanity and so-on.

The only difference between Copts and most other forms of Christianity is that Copts believe that Jesus had only one nature: a mix of a Divine and Human one. This conflicts with the Chalcedonian belief (held by other Christianities) that Jesus had two separate natures: one Divine and one Human that were in no way "blended".