Faith
The birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as the Messiah, created a new ideology of worship. The Messiah is the savior for all people and of all sins. He or she who had faith would be saved. Faith was the key. This message was distributed to the people through the words of Jesus, and then through His Apostles after Jesus’ death. Paul carried this message to the Gentiles. His missionary journeys and establishment of churches enabled the spreading of the message throughout the Roman Empire. Christianity grew in acceptance; those that believed in the Messiah separated and began to worship on their own. This marked the beginning of the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity experienced many pitfalls along the path to fulfillment. As in history, today we find ourselves learning Christ’s lessons all over again. The earliest Christian worshipers endured many hardships not experienced by society today. These differences in science, technology, and lack of practicing our beliefs have caused a rift between early Christianity and Christianity today. As we discussed in class, Christianity borrows many aspects from Judaism. The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures, for example, were used in the early t
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