Jesus

Christianity in the Pax Romana

• It begins with Jesus
• We learn about him in the gospels
• gospel means good news
• Jesus was a precher in judea who set himself apart from other "messiahs
• • Jesus taught that one must strive for perfection since God was perfect, and Jesus sought out the imperfect in society
• Jesus's follers thought he was the messiah
• he was beleived to be man and the son of god
• both human and divine
• Jesus was a threat to Roman rule and was crucified though his followers beleived he rose from the dead and ascended to heaven
• People that spead the word of jesus were apostles
• Paul of Tarsus was a jew who followed jesus after a miraulous vision on the road to Demascus
• Paul talked about "Predestination" What meant that god choose who was saved and damned
• He helped churches start and kept in touch in new christans by letters(corinth , thessalonia , rome, ephesus
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