The Religions Book

199 See also: God’s covenant with Israel 168–75 ■ Writing the Oral law 182–83 ■ Progressive Judaism 190–95 P aradoxically, while ...

CHRISTI FROM 1ST CENTURY CE ...

ANITY ...

202 C hristianity takes its name from the Greek word christós, a translation of the Hebrew word for messiah, or anointed one. Th ...

203 under the leadership of the early Church. Gradually, Christianity came to be tolerated by Roman leaders, and, after the Coun ...

204 I n 63 BCE, the Roman general Pompey conquered Jerusalem, putting an end to a century of Judean self-rule and turning the re ...

205 when Israel’s God would be the acknowledged ruler of the whole world. He would bring in a system of justice and peace for al ...

206 Jesus’s core message was that God’s long-awaited kingdom was now arriving. Some people who heard his message thought that he ...

207 God’s new world. This gave his message a note of urgency. People needed to make a decision now; far from being a distant dre ...

208 See also: Beliefs for new societies 56–57 ■ The promise of a new age 178–81 ■ A divine trinity 212–19 ■ The Prophet and the ...

209 See also: God’s covenant with Israel 168–75 ■ Faith and the state 189 ■ The Protestant Reformation 230–37 ■ The rise of Isla ...

210 THE BODY MAY DIE BUT THE SOUL WILL LIVE ON IMMORTALITY IN CHRISTIANITY W hat happens when we die? Do we continue to exist in ...

211 See also: Physical and mental discipline 112–13 ■ Man as a manifestation of God 188 ■ The ultimate reward for the righteous ...

GOD IS THREE AND GOD IS ONE A DIVINE TRINITY ...

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214 I n a math test, it is safe to assume that 1 + 1 + 1 = 3, but not so in a theology exam. One of the most notorious conundrum ...

215 attempt to answer these tricky questions, with the assertion that Christians worship one God in three persons. What Jesus ta ...

216 judged to be wrong, or heretical. One such idea was Arianism—the theology of Arius (c.250–336 CE), a Christian leader in Ale ...

217 so three persons of one substance. Such theological reasoning involved stretching the meaning of human terms in order to exp ...

218 as three Gods pulling in three different directions. Augustine (p.221) explained that it is this love that binds the Trinity ...