Christianity In The Acts Of The Apostles

Christianity, with the largest population of believers in any region, emerges during the Roman Empire period (2000 years ago). The origin of Christianity starts out with the four gospels: Mark, Matthew, John, and Luke. Even though scholars have doubts on the accuracy and validity of the gospels, there is no indisputable evidences to illustrate the false information presented in the gospels. Furthermore, the gospels describe the life of Jesus’ preaching and healing; the Acts of the Apostles represent the apostles after Jesus was sent to heaven. The Acts of the Apostles exemplifies the power of missionaries, which the high priest deliberately tries to imprison the disciples, but unable to. Furthermore, in order to achieve the “good life”, we must show loyalty and devotion, and abandon betrayal, deception, and dishonesty to become sinless. The Acts of the apostles illustrates the importance of being loyal and devoted to Jesus, which resulted in blessing by Jesus’ disciples. For instance, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven” (2:38). “Those who welcome his message were baptized” (2:41). Both quotes illustrate devotion to Jesus Christ will be forgive for our …show more content…
In the Acts of the Apostles, Ananias and his wife both tested the holy spirit while lying in front of Peter after keeping some of the profits from selling their land. The result was brutal, “How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You did not lie to us but to God! Now when Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died” (5:4-5). Similarly, Ananias’ wife suffered the same consequences because of agreeing to lie together. The punishment exemplifies the power Jesus has; furthermore, it alerts other believers not to betrayal Jesus and his disciples to gain advantages. Therefore, living with deception, dishonesty, and betrayal commence the