Earliest Christians

Earliest Christians
Today there is a world. A world that we have known of the stories was created years ago. In the world we live in there are unique things imaginable, never would have thought that it could exist. Of all that exists in this world and what we know, there are diversities of things, different people, different jobs, different means of transportation, different religions, ect. From small our parents or at least most, we instill Christian values. They take us to church and learn about the life of a person named Jesus. Ever ever wondered how things were in the days where there was Jesus? The fundamental fact with which to study the life of Jesus is to remember that he was a Jew. Jesus born during the reign of Roman Emperor Augustus in the Roman occupied land of Judea. Jesus must also be understood in the light of the Jewish prophetical tradition discussed previously. He preached the coming of God's kingdom, wich would be a reign of justice and mercy. Israel's enemies would be overcome. Until that kingdom arrived, Jesus insisted on a life of repentance. His identification with the poor and powerless antagonized his enemies. Perhaps the most characteristic expression of the teachings of Jesus is to be found in his parables and in the moral code he expressed in what is variously called the Beatitudes or the Sermon on the Mount. All of the teachings of Jesus reflect a profound grasp of the piety and wisdom of the Jewish traditions, but the Gospels make a further claim for Jesus, depicting him as the Christ. His tragic death by crucifixion would seem to have ended the public career of Jesus. The early Christian church insisted that Jesus overcame death by rising from the tomb three days after his death. This belief in the resurrection became a centerpiece of Christian faith and preaching and the basis on which early Christianity proclaimed Jesus as the Christ. The slow growth of the Christian movement was given an early boost by the conversion of a Jewish