Bible Study History of the Christian Church Part 2

[GodsGrace]

CHURCH HISTORY
30 AD to 70 AD

Jesus was born from about 4 BC to 7 AD.
The calendar was supposed to start with His birth at 1 AD but a mathematical error was made by Dionysius in the 6th century when he was to calculate an Easter table in the Julian calendar.
more information: http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-history.html#anchor-dionysius-date

He was curcified by the Romans at the behest of his very own Jewish brethren in about 30 AD. This could be part of what He meant when saying "My God...My God..." etc. He might have felt abandoned by His own people.

Jesus left instructions with the Apostles to spread His teachings to all people in all nations because He wanted the Kingdom of God to be present on Earth. He told the Apostles He would always be with them...and, indeed...the Christian faith and religion is truly a miracle or it would have vanished soon after it began.

Acts 1:8 Jesus tells His Apostles to wait in Jerusalem to receive power from the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:4, 14 The church of Jesus Christ begins.

Acts 24: 14 The church is called The Way. Paul proclaims that he serves the "sect" and that he believes everything that is in accordance with the Law and what is written by the prophets pertaining to the service to God.

to be cont'd

 

[th1b.taylor]

Just a point, confirmed to me by a visiting Rabbi of the Messianic Churches conducting a Satyr Feast for our Church; Yashuah invoked the entire Twenty-Second Psalm when He uttered the opening sentence to it. This, if true to the Jewish Religious Tradition, He invoked the entire Psalm. Knowing that as a modifier lends a good more depth into both passages.

Great subject.

 

[GodsGrace]

Just a point, confirmed to me by a visiting Rabbi of the Messianic Churches conducting a Satyr Feast for our Church; Yashuah invoked the entire Twenty-Second Psalm when He uttered the opening sentence to it. This, if true to the Jewish Religious Tradition, He invoked the entire Psalm. Knowing that as a modifier lends a good more depth into both passages.

Great subject.

Yes Bill.
Most biblical scholars believe Jesus was reciting the 22nd Psalm.

It's difficult to be absolutely sure.
Some say He felt totally abandoned by God because the sins of all the world fell upon Him and God could not be in the same place as sin.

Also, Jesus might have bemoaned the fact that His very people gave Him up to the Roman authorities and denied Him to the point of desiring His death.

I'd tend to go with the 22nd Psalm because here's how it ends:

Psalm 22:30-31
30Posterity will serve Him;
It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

31They will come and will declare His righteousness
To a people who will be born, that He has performed it.

 

[GodsGrace]

Cont'd from post 1...

Acts 15:1-21
Galatians 2:1-9

The above scripture refers to the first council held by the new Christians...The Council of Jerusalem. Others would follow throughout history.

At this time the Christians were called the Jewish Christians because it was the beginning of Christianity and some held tightly to their Jewish roots. Hebrews 6:1-4 speaks to this. Some Jews were so worried that they were making a mistake by following this Jesus that they were considering returning to temple worship as they had been taught from birth.

Some of these Jewish Christians were teaching that new converts had to be circumcised to become members of God's family, and that they had to take part in the Law of Moses.

By the Law of Moses is meant ALL the Law of Moses...not just the 10 commandments. This would have included the Civil Law and the Ceremonial Law.

At this time James was the Bishop of Jerusalem. He and Peter presided at the council. It was determined that it was not required for new converts to be circumcised or to be under the Law of Moses.

James's "Apostolic Decree" was that the requirement of circumcision for males was not obligatory for Gentile converts, possibly in order to make it easier for them to join the movement. However, the Council did retain the prohibitions against Gentile converts eating meat containing blood, or meat of animals not properly slain. It also retained the prohibitions against "fornication" and "idol worship". The Decree may have been a major act of differentiation of the Church from its Jewish roots.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Jerusalem


DATE

• c. 50

LOCATION

• Israel
• Jerusalem

PARTICIPANTS

• Apostle
• Early church

KEY PEOPLE

• Saint Barnabas
• Saint James
• St. Paul, the Apostle
• St. Peter the Apostle

source: https://www.britannica.com/event/Council-of-Jerusalem

It's interesting to note that it was at this time that we, of the New Covenant, were declared to be free of having to follow the Civil and Ceremonial Law of the Jews. We are only to follow the 10 Commandments...the Moral Law.

Council of Jerusalem, a conference of the Christian Apostles in Jerusalem in about 50 CE that decreed that Gentile Christians did not have to observe the Mosaic Law of the Jews. It was occasioned by the insistence of certain Judaic Christians from Jerusalem that Gentile Christians from Antioch in Syria obey the Mosaic custom of circumcision. A delegation, led by the apostle Paul and his companion Barnabas, was appointed to confer with the elders of the church in Jerusalem.

The ensuing apostolic conference (noted in Acts 15:2–35), led by the apostle Peter and James, “the Lord’s brother,” decided the issue in favour of Paul and the Gentile Christians. From this time onward Gentile Christians were not bound by the Levitical ceremonial regulations of the Jews, except for the provisions of the so-called apostolic decree: abstention “from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity” (Acts 15:29). The Council of Jerusalem thus demonstrated the willingness of apostolic leaders to make compromises on certain secondary issues in order to maintain peace and unity in the church.

source: https://www.britannica.com/event/Council-of-Jerusalem


Appox:

30 AD
50 days after Jesus' resurrection, the Pentecost, or Jewish Feast of Weeks, the new Christian church begins.

33 AD
Stephen is martyred. Persecution by Jews intensifies.

35 AD
Peter is Bishop of Antioch for 7 years.

42-67 AD
° Peter establishes the headquarters of the Universal (Catholic) church in Rome.
° James is Bishop of Jerusalem.

43 AD
Paul is converted.

46 - 67 AD
Paul's Missionary Journeys

50 AD
Council of Jerusalem