HISTORY 16A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Israelites, Justin Martyr
29 Aug 2016
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Jesus"s resurrection gave salvation to all people, not just israelites. Faith that brought them together was orthodox, rightly thought . They were used together: then catholic got associated with the west and orthodox with the east. Message comes to peter to accept the gentiles. Gives less importance to circumcision, in contrast to jewish belief. The resurrection gave salvation to all people, even if they didn"t follow the torah. Jesus never rejected the torah, he just added to it. They ran the risk of the romans seeing them as a separate group that threatened their power. Persecuted christians saw their identities as a matter of their relationship with. Identifying a father, son, and holy spirit while still being monotheistic was a challenge. In the creed, the origins of jesus were not universally accepted and understood. Baptism was enough to be part of god"s covenant, no longer circumcision.
