SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Jesus Movement, Communal Meal
15 Dec 2012
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Jesus identifies 12 apostles and peter to continue the mission of the jews. They experience the pentecost in which the holy spirit approaches them and calls them to spread the word of the lord. There were other leaders, such as james, brother of the lord and saul of. Tarsus/apostle paul who was one of the earliest christian writers, writing in the 50s-60s ce. Paul is very clear that he had never met the earthly. Jesus, and emphasizes his conversion from persecuting the jesus movement to becoming a member of it. He never saw himself as a jew until the day he died, but more specifically a jew with a mission as an apostle to the gentiles. There were multiple movements entailing how one should act as a jew, and directly resulted in conflict which are sometimes violent. Jew, judaism entails the observance of the torah ( law or teaching ). It involved living to moral codes and reject idolatry.
