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A 3 page essay that summarizes and reflects on chapter 5 of Justin Gonzalez's The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. No additional sources are cited.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Gonzalez, The Early Church, Chapter 5 Research Compiled
By - February, 2012 properly! A New Jewish Sect Chapter 5, "First
Conflicts with the State," begins by pointing out that early Christianity had a violent beginning.i The first section expands on a point that Gonzalez made earlier in the text, which
is that early Christians did not perceive themselves as following a new religion, but rather they understood themselves as Jews who acknowledged the arrival of the Messiah. Therefore, their message
did not include abandoning the customs and practices of Jewish law. Similarly, the Christian message to Gentiles was not to conceptualized in terms of accepting a new religion, but rather
as inclusion in the promises made by God to Abraham and his descendent.ii As this indicates, early Christians did not see their faith in Christ as a new religion.
Gonzalez points out that, rather than viewing Christianity as a new religion, a more accurate designation would be to identify it as a "heretical sect within Judaism."iii This perspective, when
considered in the light of Hebrew history, offers insight into why Jews felt threatened by Christians and consequently persecuted them. They feared that this new heresy would lead Jews away
from being "sufficiently faithful to the traditions of their ancestors" and this would incur the wrath of God.iv Persecution under Nero Gonzalez explains how persecution of Christians began under the
reign of Nero because the Roman emperor needed a scapegoat population on which to blame the devastating fire Rome experienced for several days in June of 64 A.D.v The testimony
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