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Issues on Apocalypticism
In ancient Israel the Israelites were members of the Hebrew people. The Israelites were monotheist, which means the belief in one god. The Israelites believed in the god Yaweh. They believed this god had chosen them to become of the Hebrew religion. Prophets explained that the relationship to God must be a ....
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.... and that we must decide to believe or not. The line of good and evil goes right through us and we must choose for ourselves. Jesus urged his followers to repent and that it was an unavoidable requirement in order to fulfill the wishes of god.
We can’t know exactly why the Jewish leaders crucified Jesus. Jesus’ true followers believed that the crucifixion was not the end of the story. A group of Jews believed that Jesus was the messiah and that he would be resurrected. Some Christians in the New Testament period thought that Christ was about to return; others did not.(History pg.34 ....
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