Christianity and the (R)evolution in Worldviews in Western Culture

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Most Jews had some form of future hope. In general, they expected God to intervene in history and to restore Israel to a state of peace, freedom, and prosperity. As God’s chosen people, the Jews felt they should be free both of foreign domination and of ambitious worldly leaders. Requests for collective action, including for donations, to take surveys, to sign petitions, or brigading

in a court of law jurors are given instructions to regard direct and indirect evidence with the same level of quality—meaning that they both hold the same weight. Neither is inferior or superior to the other. This is important when investigating events of history, since there may not be direct evidence available. In Wallace’s case, if indirect evidence were inferior to direct evidence, then he would not be able to successfully prosecute perpetrators of cold murder cases. Linking to articles that are behind paywalls, or replication of said articles in the comment section to avoid article paywalls I told you the most important part of the message exactly as it was told to me. This part is: Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say. He was buried, and three days later he was raised to life, as the Scriptures say. Christ appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After this, he appeared to more than five hundred other followers. Most of them are still alive, but some have died. He also appeared to James, then to all of the apostles.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:3-7‬ ‭CEV‬‬ More than the Romans feared rebellion, the Jewish leaders feared the Romans’ quelling of rebellions. Jesus threatened the very tenuous peace they held with Rome. The Sanhedrin, the Jewish ruling body, called a meeting to figure out what to do about Jesus. “If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation” (John 11:48). I think greed and oppression of the poor is far worse than sexual sin. Its kind of ironic, probably a lot of conservative people on here are feeling guilty for the wrong things.

It wasn’t until Christianity came on the scene that Jesus truly threatened Rome. Christians interrupted the status quo with their insistence on one God, flying in the face of the Roman pantheon, including emperor worship, and the enormous economy built around the temples. Christians pledged themselves to someone they considered greater than the emperor. This is a place for Catholics and non-Catholics alike to present and respectfully discuss news and other content about the Catholic faith and the Catholic Church, inquire regarding questions about the faith, and grow in spirituality, mutual encouragement, and community. Allowed Content In sum, remember that "If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge, if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. (1 Cor. 13:1-2)" In all things, charity: a post being orthodox or otherwise factually correct does not mean it will not be removed if it is also uncharitable. A: Currently, we use flairs for offices. If you see users flaired, they have been verified by the moderators. We are unlikely to have self-applied flair anytime in the near future (search for the topic here to understand why).

the Jewish leaders were not authorized to perform executions (John 18:31). Thus, Jesus was taken to the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate. “The King of the Jews” was written on a sign above Him, a clear indication exactly what sort of respect Rome had for any Jewish “king.” For the next three centuries, Christians were sporadically persecuted and often driven underground. Paul lets the church of Corinth know about eyewitnesses of Jesus who were still alive (1 corinthians was written around 20 years after ✝️)In Christianity’s first couple of centuries, persecution was rarely mandated by the emperor on a large scale. The best-known exception, however, occurred when Emperor Nero blamed Christians for starting the Great Fire of 64 CE. Christians would not be mistreated again on a large scale until 250 CE. At that point, for about two years Christians were required to make sacrifices to the Roman gods or face death. This time led by Emperor Decius, this short-lived maltreatment was part of an attempt to restore Roman paganism to the empire. When Herod died shortly after Jesus’ birth, his kingdom was divided into five parts. Most of the Gentile areas were separated from the Jewish areas, which were split between two of Herod’s sons, Herod Archelaus, who received Judaea and Idumaea (as well as Samaria, which was non-Jewish), and Herod Antipas, who received Galilee and Peraea. (In the New Testament, Antipas is somewhat confusingly called Herod, as in Luke 23:6–12; apparently the sons of Herod took his name, just as the successors of Julius Caesar were commonly called Caesar.) Both sons were given lesser titles than king: Archelaus was ethnarch, and Antipas was tetrarch. The non-Jewish areas (except Samaria) were assigned to a third son, Philip, to Herod’s sister Salome, or to the province of Syria. The emperor Augustus deposed the unsatisfactory Archelaus in 6 CE, however, and transformed Judaea, Idumaea, and Samaria from a client kingdom into an “imperial province.” Accordingly, he sent a prefect to govern this province. That minor Roman aristocrat (later called a procurator) was supported by a small Roman army of approximately 3,000 men. The soldiers, however, came not from Italy but from nearby Gentile cities, especially Caesarea and Sebaste; presumably, the officers were from Italy. During Jesus’ public career, the Roman prefect was Pontius Pilate (ruled 26–36 CE).