Friday, October 26, 2012

Christain Judaism


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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