Christian Religion

Christianity did not just come out of nowhere, it developed throughout hundreds of years. Thanks to the combined efforts Paul, James, Peter, Jesus’s followers, and all of the Jews and Gentiles, this religion has been formed from the teachings of Jesus Christ. He only wanted to reform the religion of Judaism, but throughout several disputes, Christianity became its very own religion. Throughout the life of Jesus Christ, he was very much human just like us. Jesus, just as we were born, was born in Bethlehem where he spent the majority of his life working as a carpenter with his father. It was not until Jesus was about thirty years old until he came into historical view. Around the age of thirty, Jesus came to the River Jordan to listen to John …show more content…
His divinity was shown even before his birth, when his mother, Mary, conceived him through the Holy Spirit. Jesus had the gift of healing, meaning that if anybody was ill, disabled, Jesus could heal them. One time a leper begged Jesus saying, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Jesus then was “moved with pity and proceeded to heal the leper (Mark 1:40-42). In another instance, the friends a paralyzed man broke through the roof of a building where Jesus was teaching, in hopes that Jesus would heal him too (Mark 2:1-12). There was even a time when Jesus could bring the dead back to life. One time, Jesus’ friends’, Martha and Mary, brother, Lazarus, passes away and had been dead for four days. Jesus then went in the tomb and rose Lazarus from the dead. All of this aside, his greatest feat of his divinity was shown during his resurrection from the dead. When he rose from the dead, just days after his death, Jesus presented himself to the people that he knew as well as a group of at least five hundred (Wilkens, 16). This encounter with the risen Christ gave his followers the strength and courage to go on and preach the good news …show more content…
This could include a time when Christians were being hunted and they all had to go into hiding, or maybe an event when there was some crisis within the Church. As long as the topic is interesting, I’m sure that I would be interested. I don’t really know anything about Church history, so I’d also like to learn the big moments that happened. I would not like to learn about anything that does not have a lot of things going on. As far as a specific time period, anything around the Middle Ages whether it be the Early, High, or Late Middle Ages, they all seem to have interesting events in them such as the “Dark Ages” or the Crusades. The religion of Christianity did not spring out of nowhere, but it was formed over hundreds of years, and through many events. Jesus Christ never intended to do this, but over time and through several disputes with the Jewish leaders, Paul, James, and Jesus’s other disciples founded this new religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Through many trials, this religion now stands as the largest religion to date, and rightfully