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Romans 5:6–10 – This passage is telling us the love that god has for us, and that although we are sinners, Jesus died for us.

Philippians 2:8 – Jesus was humble enough to die for us.

Galatians 6:14 – This passage is telling us that we will never boast anything except for our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us on the cross.

1 Corinthians 1:18 – It is saying that for the people that are perishing the message of the cross is foolishness, but for the ones who are being saved it is power.

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Roman Empire

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| WORD | DEFINITION
| Paul | Apostle who taught the gospel of the Christ to the first century world
| Saul | It was Pauls name before he had his conversion
| Apostle | An important early Christian teacher or pioneering missionary
| disciple | A personal follower of Christ during his life, especially if one of the Twelve Disciples
| Gentile | Is not Jewish
| Jew | Is someone who follows the religion Judaism
| Acts of the apostle | The Acts are not a history in sense of an eyewitness account of beginnings of Christianity but rather an interpretation. Acts explain how Christianity spread outside of Judaism to the Gentile world under the direction of the Holy Spirit. We receive information of how Christians lived in the years after Jesus’ resurrection and ascension.
| Missionary journey | Is a Christian who has been sent to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity
| Early Christians | The first Christians to create a council in 325
| Values | The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something
| Beliefs | A belief in a religion
| Relevance | The quality or state of being closely connected or appropriate
| Contemporary Christians | Contemporary Christians worship is a form of Christian worship that emerged in the western society.

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Post 4 - *Explain the purpose of Paul's letters in approximately 100 words

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Post 4 - *Explain the purpose of Paul's letters in approximately 100 words

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Paul established the Christian Church for the Corinthians when he visited them around AD 51 and spent eighteen months with its converts. He wrote many letters to the Corinthians upon arriving home after seeing how poorly it was run, offering advice on how to improve. The Corinthians were having difficulty worshipping correctly and were ignoring the poor and treated them badly. The advice and teaching Paul gave in his letters is believed to have saved them. Paul gave the Corinthians good, practical advice. He also reminded them what is truly important for Christian believers.
The first letter written by Paul, also called The Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, deals with problems that arose in the early years of Pauls initial missionary visit to the Corinth and the establishment of the Christian faith there. The letter illuminates both of Pauls thoughts and problems of the early church. It is known as a “warning letter”. The second letter refers to an upheaval among the Christians in Corinth, where Paul was being insulted and his apostolic authority challenged. He stated the importance of forgiving others, and God’s new agreement that comes from the Spirit of the living God and the importance of being a person of Christ and giving generously to God’s people in Jerusalem, and ends with his own experience of how God changed his life. This letter was known as “The letter of tears”.

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Post 1 - Describe the Mediterranean World in 33 CE in approximately  100  words    *Add a map  

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Post 1 - Describe the Mediterranean World in 33 CE in approximately  100  words    *Add a map  

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Legend says that Rome was originally founded by Romulus, but it more likely grew from a cluster of farming settlements. Within 200 years, Rome became a Republic ruled by Kings. Power struggles between powerful Romans bought an end to the Republic and the rise of an Empire where Emperors had complete power. Many wars throughout this time secured most of the Mediterranean area of the world. The Roman Empire was divided two sections, Western and Eastern. The Romans controlled so much land because they were surrounding the Mediterranean Sea which was a vital trade route to other empires. The Roman Empire was around for 500 years. The Roman Empire started in 27 BC and ended in 1453.

The Roman Empire was a vast population and had many different languages. The most fluent spoken was Latin. While Latin was the main written language of the Roman Empire, Greek became the main language spoken by the well-educated elite, as most of the literature studied by Romans was written in Greek. However, Latin remained the dominate language.

The Roman Empire surrounded The Mediterranean Sea. Therefore, the main means of trade was to travel by sea to deliver the goods and for people to travel across to other lands. Their main and most common transport was boat or Naval ships. They would load up the boats with goods and food and sail across the trade routes. They also travelled across land by foot.

The Roman Empire was one of the largest areas in history. It covered territories throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The main Cities were Thessalonica in Greece, Alexandria in Egypt, Antioch in the East, the Cities of Carthage and Marsilia in the West.

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Post 6 - *Interpret and *apply one of Paul's messages for us today in  50-100 words

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Post 6 - *Interpret and *apply one of Paul's messages for us today in  50-100 words

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Galatians 3: 26-4:7 is one of St Paul's letters that contains an important message. It tells us, "There is no longer Jew or Greeks, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." - Galatians 3: 28. I believe this is a message that we should listen to today as there is so much information about conflicts between the religions in the world. To stop this from happening we should stop discriminating each other for religion, gender and many more. This bible passage highlights what our attitudes should be like which is to invite people to love each other the way they are and not to discriminate.

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Post 5 - *Identify and *explain  in 50-100 words a cultural challenge for Paul that  is revealed in one of his epistles

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Post 5 - *Identify and *explain  in 50-100 words a cultural challenge for Paul that  is revealed in one of his epistles

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There were a few cultural problems throughout Pauls epistles. In particular, I found two major cultural problems. The first one is the language barrier. Paul travelled alot throughout his life so there were different languages in each country. The second one is the early Christians. The Jews and Romans didn’t trust the early Christians and persecuted most of them and when Paul became a Christian he took a lot of beatings and was thrown in jail for being a Christian, but he did it for God.

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Post 4 -*identify the main messages in his preaching in approximately 100 words 

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Post 4 -*identify the main messages in his preaching in approximately 100 words 

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The message Paul was preaching was the word of the Lord. His main message was about the death, resurrection, and lordship of Jesus Christ. He preached that if you believed in Jesus, you shared in Jesus’ life (salvation). He saw Jesus' death as being for the believers' benefit, not a defeat. Jesus died so that believers' sins would be forgiven. He would go to countries to tell stories about our Lord. He would visit churches and tell them not to lose faith or hope in our Lord and that he would always be with you. He would gather men and tell them to help him build people’s faith in God. He went to jail and was beaten up for spreading the word of the Lord.

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Post 3 - 	Outline the extent of Paul’s 1st or 2nd or 3rd missionary Journey. 

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Post 3 - 	Outline the extent of Paul’s 1st or 2nd or 3rd missionary Journey. 

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Paul travelled across the land 3 times in order to preach about God. The first time was in 46 AD. He travelled the holy lands starting in Antioch, then to Salamis, Paphos, Myra, then to the other Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, then travelled back to Antioch. Paul travelled a total of 1400 miles. His second trip was in 49 AD. Once again, he started at Antioch, to Tarsus, Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, through Phrygia and Galatia, stopped at Thous, Neapolis, Berea, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Samos, Cos, down to Caesarean, and finally Jerusalem, a total of 2800 miles. His final travel was in 52 AD where he started at Antioch, Ephesus, Mitytene, Assos, Tirons, Macedonia, Corinth, back up to Macedonia, and then down to Miletus, Cos, Rhodes, Patra, Thrye, Ptolemais and finally to Jerusalem, a total of 2700 miles. He did this all to spread the word of the lord.

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Post 2  - *Explain in 50-100 words the significance of the conversion of Saul

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Post 2  - *Explain in 50-100 words the significance of the conversion of Saul

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Saul was born in Tarsus. Being born in Tarsus was like being born in a theme park. Saul beat up, threw rocks and even tried to kill the Christians. One day, Saul heard a voice from Jesus who said “Why, why are you doing this?”. God then blinded Saul for three days straight. Once the blindness went away Saul decided to get to know God. Saul became Paul, who became a missionary. He decided to spread the word of God to everyone, even people he didn’t know. Paul was happy to himself be beat up, thrown rocks at and even put in jail if it was for God. Paul devoted his life to God.