The Christian Bible
The
Christian is a text about Jesus Christ telling his disciples of the rapture or
the end of the world. During that time people will claim to be Jesus Christ.
And on that day God will appear along with his angels. The next section goes on
saying that no man will know when the end will be near only God the Father will
know. Like Noah before the flood no one knew what was going too happened until
it was too late.
The Paul Letters
This
text is about a man named Paul who became a prophet of God when his evil
actions led him blind, which he believed was Gods punishment. He explains the
resurrection of Christ. How he died for our sins and then on the third day rose
from the dead, He explains spiritual blessing from God to be forgiven for our
sins and obtain riches from his grace.
He continues by saying that before we were saved we were dead. But
because God loves us more than we know and is al so merciful made us alive. ]
Pliny to the Emperor Trajan
Pliny
is a governor of Emperor Trajan and he writes to the emperor and asks him or
advice on dealing with Christians.
People have been accused and then executed. He continues to ask the
emperor if being Christian alone is the punishment or being Christian and not
worshipping the Roman gods a cause for their sudden deaths. The Roman policies are basically worshiping
our Gods or face the consequences. When faced with death Christians would tell
Pliny that they renounced their Christianity and no long serve their previous
God. One of Pliny's main concerns was the vast number of Christians because
many people of different gender rank and age will be endangered and will likely
continue. It went from spreading in the cities to the villages and farmers as
well. He decides to postpone any executions till he gets a word from the
emperor. The emperor does reply saying good job not killing anyone based on
accusations only. He tells Pliny that if someone claims they are Christian then
kill them. If they deny it, and offer offerings to the Roman gods, then he
shall be pardoned.
Life of Constantine
Constantine was the first Christian
Roman Emperor, who decided he wanted more power needed more power than he was
obtaining from his military forces. He looks for divine assistance. He looks at
all the different emperors and gods they served and determine from their
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