Christianity in the 1st century

any God. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are monotheistic religion that they believe in one God. Three religions are the most popular religions that everyone got familiar with it. They all believe that universe is created by God, the highest leader of their religion. Each one have the holy book that believed it was words from the God and have rules that it is forbidden or not. To better understand these religions, there will be differences and similarities in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. …

Antipas, who initially was a worshiper of the Roman god Jupiter, began to be drawn to Christianity through written conversations with Luke. Antipas and Luke had engaged in friendly dialogue over historical, and spiritual culture. When the two got closer, Luke started to bring up Jesus Christ to Antipas. Luke eventually shared his testimony of what Christ was like, and that lead to Antipas developing an interest in learning more about Christ. To further expand upon his knowledge of Christ,…

Critics of the Bible said Luke made up the term or was mistaken. Late 19th century William Ramsey dug up the Stone archway of the gate into the city and above the Greek names was “politarchs” 2. Luke mentions Caiaphas as the high priest. Historians claimed no such person is ever mentioned outside of Luke. During road construction in Jerusalem, heavy equipment broke through the roof of a limestone cave used for burial in 1st century-bone box ossuary. Engraved on it was “Joseph Caiaphas, high…

cultural system of behavior and practices. Different religions contain different system of beliefs, ranging from the divine, scared things, and faith. There are over four-thousand religions in the world. The main four religions of the world are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Religious practices includes rituals, sermons, sacrifices, festivals, meditation, prayer, music, and others aspects of culture. The impact religion has on the world today is through depression, alcohol abuse,…

challenges to Christianity in the first three centuries and how the Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists responded to each. One of the main challenges that faced Christianity in the first three centuries was Gnosticism. Cerinthus was one of the earliest Gnostic teacher and troublers during the 1st Century (28). Gnostics believed that each person possessed a special, higher spiritual knowledge (29), and that humans are made up of matter. One of the biggest arguments Gnosticism placed on…

astrology and certain aspects linked to religion, like omens, witchcraft and prophecies, that contradict natural science. The word superstition is generally used to refer to the religion not practiced by the majority of a given society – such as Christianity in Western culture – regardless of whether the prevailing religion contains superstitions. It is also commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy, and certain spiritual beings, particularly the belief that future…

The Boxer rebellion in China in 1900 has many interesting parallels to events in the early 21st century. It saw an uprising in a non-western country against what was seen as the corrupting influence of western practices and ideologies. In some respects a foretaste of the current war against terrorism, in that a basically grass roots organisation fought what they saw as a holy war against a technologically superior collection of foreign powers to preserve their values and beliefs. On one side of…

Vespasian becoming Emperor of Rome. This abuse of the messianic tradition illustrates the chaotic nature of the Orthodox Jewish community during the 1st century A.D. The cultural conflict over the “messianic tradition” during historical period defines the small role that Jesus and his followers possessed during the early community-base development of Christianity. Josephus’ betrayal…

Next we will have a look at a contribution to the Historicity of Jesus from the writings of Lucian of Samosata. Lucian He was a second century Romano-Syrian satirist, whose writings were in Greek. Lucian was known for mocking and this ironically added insight as well as confirmation to the historicity of Jesus. The Christians, you know, worship a man to this day — the distinguished personage who introduced their novel rites, and was crucified on that account. You see, these misguided creatures…

differentiating concepts. So why does one feel it’s better than the other? Competition to break each other down. Christianity and Catholicism are two separate religions that are coincidentally similar but their differences is what makes each unique. Christianity is a religion based on the teachings and lessons taught by Jesus of Nazareth. It branched out from Judaism and can be traced back to the 1st century in Palestine. Christians believe that there is only one true God in one form as the…