Christianity page 1

 Christianity page 1 by ric gustafson

How did Christianity begin?. According to Mark 1:14, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the good news of God. Christianity began with the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus has been described as a Jewish Rabbi, a reformer, as the Messiah and the Son of God. Jesus was the reason for a religious movement that would sweep across the Roman Empire and across the world.

Jesus was born in Lower Galilee. This was a region where he spent much of his youth and adult life. Galilee was different from Judea to the south. Galilee was surrounded by foreign territory. There was Sidon and Tyre to the Northwest. There was Roman Syria to the Northeast. There was Ammon and Moab to the East. It was mostly landlocked. It had access to the Sea of Galilee. Galilee was a large agricultural region with great valleys.

Then King Herod came in 37 B.C.E.

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