Within the first Century, it is known that Jesus and his first followers were originally Jewish. These followers were said to have been ortho-practice Jews who loyally followed the Mosaic Law and many other Jewish customs. However, these followers of Jesus had one major belief that was not common amongst the Jewish population, which was that Jesus was the Messiah. This group of followers was known as Jewish Christians because of their strong ties to both the Jewish religion and their faith that Jesus was the key to eternal salvation. In the first Century, many of these followers, including Joel and Luke, believed that “The Day of the Lord” was soon coming, which meant the end of time and beginning of eternal life. They believed that God sent Jesus as the Messiah and that he was on earth the spread the holy word of God. This was prevalent when Jeremiah wrote, “The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” (Jeremiah, 31:31). They believed that the reason God sent Jesus down to Earth …show more content…
It confused many Jews that they were supposed to follow this “New Covenant” just because of the birth of a single person. There was also the aspect of this man rising from the dead, which was, and still is an unheard of concept in the world. Some people viewed this as more of a fairytale than religion, which is why many people discredited Jesus altogether. Since there were so many reports and interpretations of Jesus’s life and resurrection, it would have been impossible for everyone to decipher them the same way. There were also the Pagans in Rome who thought that everyone being from the same Father and eating of the body of Christ that Jesus’s teachings included incest and cannabis. This created many early oppressors to the Christian faith that Jesus was