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Early Christianity Research Paper

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Early Christianity had a lot to do with the transformation of Rome and posed a challenge to the Roman Empire. Christians were known as the enemy of Rome, primarily because they refused to worship the emperors as the embodiment of Rome’s Gods meaning they were denying his divinity and authority. The one whom the Christians worshiped had been declared a criminal, was tried and put to death the roman state. Christianity itself faced several challenges, it all began with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and he lived and worked among his fellow Jews in Judea and galilee around 30C.E. Jesus was known as Yeshua bar Yosef meaning son of Joseph by the Greeks. The earliest writing ever know to mention Jesus were letters from his follower …show more content…

There was another group of Jews in Rome they called themselves the Sadducees they collaborated very closely with Rome and they controlled the hereditary temple. Their chief rivals were preachers who believed in the prophetic word. They claimed to control the interpretation of the torah; they believed that Jesus gave Moses the five books and a written one to go along with the five books and it became a tradition in which they claimed their special inheritance. The Pharisees believed in life after death and judgement day. They gained members and won souls through preaching and waited for the arrival of the messiah whom God has promised will come. The Sadducees were very much different from the Pharisees they took the torah a little more serious than the Pharisees did they made strictly for just Jews to view and Jews only they did want anyone that wasn’t born Jewish to view it and the other group just basically let anyone who joined them Jew or non-Jew view

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