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Summarizing the origins of Christianity

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ORIGINS OF CHRISTINITY

• The story of Jesus' birth is told in the writings of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament of the Bible. His birth is believed by Christians to be the fulfilment of prophecies in the Jewish Old Testament, which claimed that a Messiah would deliver the Jewish people from captivity.
• Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect in Judea but quickly spread throughout the Roman empire. Despite early persecution of Christians under the Roman Empire, it later became the state religion. In the Middle Ages it spread into Northern Europe and Russia.
• Christianity began as an offshoot of the Jewish faith during the first century CE. It began because of one of the most influential figures in human history: Jesus of Nazareth. From the teachings of Jesus and the acts of his followers after his death, the Christian faith spread across the world. Today it is the largest religion in the world and has widely influenced law, personal morality, and philosophies.
• Jesus preached messages that had several key themes. One was an emphasis on love and kind treatment of all humans, regardless of their nationality, beliefs, or even moral behavior. Jesus also encouraged forgiveness, honesty, respect, generosity, and humility. Many of these teachings were presented orally, by telling stories that we now call parables.
• Early Christianity has its roots in Hellenistic Judaism and Jewish messianism of the first century. It started with Jewish eschatologicalexpectations, and developed into the veneration of a deified Jesus after his earthly ministry, his crucifixion, and post–crucifixion experiences of his followers.
• Early on, a number of related but divergent Christian communities and interpretations of the eschaton and Jesus' life and death developed during the first and early second century CE, which gradually departed from the Pharisees and other Jewish sects. From the former eventually arose "orthodox" Christianity, while the latter developed into