From Judaism To Christianity Research Paper

Christianity: From Judaism to Jesus Christianity began a long, long time ago. The people who became the Jews were not any big important group of people. In fact, they were very poor, and a regular tribe. The main person who started practicing Judaism was Abraham or Abram. God came to Abraham when he was Ninety years old and nine, as recorded in Genesis 17. God made a covenant with him, and promised him many things. He promised to make him the father of many nations, that he will have children, and that his descendants will number the stars. But God required for him and everyone else to become circumcised. Later, God creates ten commandments for the Hebrews to follow. Throughout the next few hundred or thousand years, God sends the Jews into the promised lands, the Jews disappoint God and he send prophets telling the Jews to fix up their act or else. In conclusion this was the beginning of Judaism and in the next paragraph I will discuss the coming of Jesus and how it changed everything.

When Jesus was born, the promised lands of the Israelites was taken over by the Roman Empire. Jesus was a teacher that wanted the Jews to go back to their roots, he taught mostly those who were poor, and he performed many miracles. He spread his message of peace, and love throughout Judea and he gained a small but very loyal group of followers. His views such as it is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than a rich man to go to heaven made those who were rich, and powerful mainly the Pharisees feel very threated. Later, the Romans executed Jesus because he was a disruption to the cities. Many ask how did his views impacted the world forever and how they were able to spread from Judea to all over the world. After the death of Jesus, modern-day Christians were a very small group. …show more content…
Christianity was close to dying out and, it wasn’t really known until Paul of Tarsus started his journey. Saul was raising a Pharisee and for a big part of his life he put Christians in prison, he killed them, he hated them. But when Saul on his way to Damascus he received a vision from God and became known as Paul. He began visiting Jesus followers and sending letters throughout Rome. He was able to go everywhere because he was a Roman Citizen which allowed him to travel freely throughout the empire. He taught that Christians didn’t have to follow all Jewish customs, they didn’t have to be circumcised, he taught the idea of being born again, and how Jesus died for us all. This made many people want to convert to this new religion. Over 30 years, Paul went over 10,000 miles preaching his faith to Rome’s most famous cities like Ephesus, Corinth, and Athens. He went way past Jesus who only preached to Jews, but he preached to everyone. One day while he was preaching in the Province of Asia, some Jews saw him and called a huge crow to seize him and they wanted to kill him. A few Roman soldiers came over and the rioters came off of him, and the soldiers arrested Paul. A long trial happened, Pharisees wanted him dead, but he was a Roman citizen. After a plot to kill