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How meny years ago did Christianity begin?
Christianity began nearly 2000yrs ago.
Who did the Christian’s believe Jesus was?
They believed the recently executed Jewish man (Jesus) was the long awaited messiah.
How long after Jesus died did the Christians believe Jesus came back to life
They believe that on the 3rd day after being killed on the cross that Jesus had been resurrected and appeared to many people before ascending into heaven.
What did the Christians believe Jesus died for?
Christians claimed that Jesus died so that people who believed in him could be forgiven if their sins and have eternal life
Who was the Christian’s beliefs different to ?
The traditional Roman and Jewish beliefs
Over the past 200 years (post reformation) there have been many disagreements between Christian’s-many of which have led to new forms of Christianity becoming established. These are called? And how many are there now?
They are called denominations.
Today there is over 30,000 denominations of Christianity
What is the largest denomination of Christianity
Catholic church
How many disciples did Jesus have?
12 disciples.
How fast did Christianity spread?
Just in 20 years of Jesus’ death most of the major towns around the Mediterranean had a Christian community.
Within 100 years of Jesus’ death there were over 300,000 Christian’s living across the Roman empire.
Name the four gospels included in the New Testament
Mathew
Mark
Luke
John
Fill in the gaps
In the years of Jesus’ death,……………. Spread the Christian message throughout the Roman Empire.
Life was tough for these travelling preachers,as they often travelled long distances and faced………..
- Missionary
- Persecution
What year was Jesus crucified approx?
From 30ad to 33ad
Fill in the gaps
In….AD Nero was the Roman emperor. He was an …………. Ruler, and during his reign a large……
Broke out which destroyed large parts of the….. of Rome.
There was rumours spread at the time that ……… started the …….. himself- he however blamed the…….. I.e scapegoating them.
- 64AD
2unpopular
3.fire.
4.city
5.nero
6.fire
7.christians
Name 3 forms of execution that Nero used on the Christians.
*used them as candles
*fed them to lions
*dressed them in animal skins and let them be ripped apart from hungry dogs
*put them in a barrel with spikes throw it of a cliff
*putting them in a barrel with a roster, snake,monkey,in a sake and make them drown while being torn apart
Why did the people not care that the Christian’s were being killed?
When Christianity was in the early days,non-Christians believed that the early church was uncivilised and they did not understand their practices
Why did Saul change to Paul
Because when on his way to persecute more Christians he saw a white light and heard Jesus. He went blind for a while and desired to become a fellow Christian
Why did the leaders of Jesus’ followers in Jerusalem agree to allow Paul and gentiles to become Christians?
At the council of Jerusalem it was agreed that Jesus died for all people not just the Jews.
Why was the decision to allow gentiles and Jews become Christians so important?
This decision was incredibly important as followers of Jesus were no longer seen as a group within Judaism- it was seen as a new religion and therefore needed its own name
What dose martyred mean?
The people who are killed for there believes
What dose it mean scapegoat?
A term used when deliberately placing the blame of an action on another person/group of people.
Why do you think that Christians liked to meet at night?
It was safer to meet at night. As everyone was asleep. It would be dark. Less chance to be killed because if they all died then the believe would die with them.
What were they actually doing when non-Christians thought they were engaging in cannibalistic activities?
Praying to God and Jesus, they were having a communion, eating bread and wine.
Why were the Christians eating bread andwine at night?
To remember Jesus is pain and bravery and his last supper they were doing it because of Jesus’s last words, do this in memory of me, Catholic believe, the actual wine and bread turned into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Fill in the gap
Different areas of the Roman emperor ruled by…………… on behalf of the Emperor
1Governors
One of these governors were called Pliny. Pliny was given a notebook it had names of all the Christians in his area. What did Pliny do with this note book to find out who else was Christian’s
He chose to Christian girls and tortured them, so they would give him information about the Christian beliefs, and how they worshipped. This helped him to develop “a test.”
What did plinys test include?
It’s included Pliny making the person
worship the Roman gods
offer incense and wine to the statue of a Roman emperor tarjan
Deny following Jesus
If they did this, you were freed, if not, then you were executed .
Why did the martyrs help spread Christianity?
Because the more people heard that Christians were killed because they kept believing in Christianity then they would see how serious they were about so called “superstition “and start to believe it isn’t such a superstition but real.
Why did Soul change and become Paul?
He heard the voice of God on the way to Damascus.
Roughly, when was the first gospel in the Bible written?
From 60 AD too about 66AD
What was the first gospel?
Mark was the first gospel
Who was one of Rome’s most dangerous emperors towards Christianity?
Nero
Which one of the gospels, which is different to the other three, not sypnotic
John
Term to describe the followers of Jesus
Disciples
Terms to describe the different branches of Christianity
Denominations
Term to mean good news of Jesus Christ
Gospels
Number of Paul’s letters contained in the NT of the Bible
13
Man, who was converted on Damascus road
Saul/Paul
One of the most dangerous places in the world to practice faith
North Korea
