Counter Measure : Examining The Wmscog Just Like The Pharisees

did not stand with the church were not looked at as ethical people. In the sense that they could not

the revelation he began preaching publicly. He had gained few followers early on and was met with

had very little in common with the Biblical figure of Jesus Christ. I think that religion was not

Eventually Antipas allowed Luke to show him that Christians were not the threat to society that he thought of them as, but that they simply wanted to give the gift of the Truth, that as Christians they did love Rome and her

In the year 30, Christianity mainly consisted of Jews who accepted Jesus as the Messiah. The belief that Jesus was a savoir was the break from Judaism. Jesus was appealing to people because he was real; lived on Earth. His teachings were appealing to people and the main ideas was that Christ was a savior. Jesus taught using parables, he talked to people who had been shunned, and welcomed the poor into society. The four Apostles are the telling of Jesus with different emphasis. They traveled spreading the teachings of Christ throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. John started to preach good news and John the Baptist told the people that the kingdom of god was near. The teachings included that sins could be forgiven through Gods orders. God was a loving and forgiving father, and believed in life after death. Jesus could perform miracles, raise the dead, and cure blindness. Christianity was seen at first as a part of Judaism, and the early believers were comprised of an apocalyptic Jewish sect. It was thought that the Lord may return at any time and the end must be close.

Some people from that church I have no idea what they were thinking but they followed him.

Just like the fake, deceitful lives everyone led, there was a fake interest in God and religion. There was never any real understanding of the world in which they lived, with no attempt to explain why they were even there. In the world of the ash heaps and dusty

<br>3. The start of this was in the 4th century before Christ; audiences accepted people

Although, the incident between Peter and Malchus could have been a powerful argument against Jesus, it had been destroyed by a miracle and they certainly did not want to call attention to the miracle-working power of Christ, the Son of God and the Savior of all who obey Him. (Hebrews 5:8-9)

There are a lot of conspiracy theories to Jesus and all that he stands for. There are those who feel that he never existed, or that perhaps he did, but the things about him are made up. The Christian belief is that he did exist and that there is proof of the things that he did. However, there are still many who feel that mythical Jesus is just a story that is told.

During the first decades preceding Christ's death, Christians were tolerated but not really liked by the general population of the Roman empire due to their refusal to acknowledge the emperor as a living god. This act of defiance was considered heresy by the state .The real mass persecution of the Christian people came during the reign of the emperor Nero who needed a scapegoat on whom to blame the great fire during his reign.

What happen next was to change the believers and establish the early church, when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together

there were men in power who did not care for him or his teachings; Claiming that

The majority of people, according to the Grand Inquisitor, are weak and "like sheep." Jesus prized freedom of faith above all else, and because he cared more for that freedom than for the happiness of people, the Grand Inquisitor and the Catholic Church, as led by he Inquisitor, reject Jesus. Only the strong, like the Inquisitor, who can "go the forty days and nights in the desert," are capable of attaining the reward of Heaven, while the weak millions, "who are weak but still love Thee... must exist

The New Testament is characterized by the existence of imperative Biblical figures, with the likes of Jesus Christ, the Apostles, among many others. Peter was among Jesus’ first disciples. From his turning point, as manifested in the book of John 21, to his progress as a dedicated leader as manifested in Acts, to his final emergence as a co-elder as manifested in the Epistles of 1st and 2nd Peter, Peter exhibited traits of a transformational and charismatic biblical figure (Neil & William 409).