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The Council Of Jerusalem: The Impact Of Paul

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The impact that Paul had after his mission is really big. This happened after he “challenged” the council of Jerusalem. If it weren’t for Paul, Christianity wouldn’t be able to spread all over the world. Paul gave courage to some Christians, courage to share the word of God, even though Christians were being persecuted by Nero and the romans. This caused Christianity to take action, to spread the word of God to everyone and to give them courage to do the same thing so more people will get to know about Jesus Christ more. In ad 66-70, Christians and Jews are still persecuted by the Roman empire, this caused the first war between Jews and Romans. This is the First Jewish-Roman War and sometimes called The Great Revolve. This was the first Major Rebellion by the Jews. This major caused many CHANGES in Christianity, like Christianity separating itself from the Jewish religion, the New Testament and many other changes that happened in Christianity. …show more content…

This happened because Nero needed more money. Probably because of what happened to Rome in ad 64, The burning of Rome. After blaming the Jews and Christians for the burning of Rome, he asked them to pay more tax than before, to rebuild Rome. They then began attacking the Roman citizen because of the persecution, Romans then responded by plundering the Jewish temple and executing about 6000 Jews causing a full-scale rebellion by the Jews. The rebellion of the Jews is getting out of control, this caused the defeat of Aquila’s Legion and 6000 Romans. Later on, an attempt by Menahem ben Yehuda, the leader of Sicarii, take over Jerusalem failed. He was executed by the Jews and the rest of Sicarii were ejected from the

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