Monotheistic Religions

Judaism
1. The god choose ABRAHAM to be the father of Judaism.
  1. There were actually 4 people who helped to make up Judaism. They are Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon.
    1. Abraham : He was born in about 2000 BCE in Mesopotamia. Over there, the people worship many gods like the Romans, but Abraham believe there is only 1 god. When Abraham is 75 years old, the god told him : Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you. The god promise Abraham that he will be the father of a great nation of people. Abraham accept it, so gathered his relatives and went west into the land of Canaan.
    2. Moses : The god told Moses : "I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” So Moses go to Egypt and talk to the Pharaoh to led the Israelites out of the slave's life and out of Egypt. At first, the Pharaoh decline it, so the god punish them by the ten ten terrible plagues. After a while, the Pharaoh changed his mind, he let the Israelites out, but he also send out a group of knights to chase them back into Egypt. After the knights also catch up them, they are at the Red Sea, Moses chocked his crutch. THE RED SEA SEPARATE INTO 2 PARTS. They ran over it and when the last Israelites got on the beach, the sea closed, so all of the knight drowns into the water and dead.
    3. David and Solomon : Solomon is the son of David. Both of them did a great job when they are alive. Solomon built the great temple of Jerusalem, which was the first temple in Egypt, which was his major achievement, but he is also famous because of his wisdom, The Book of Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes in the Writings section of the Hebrew Bible are attributed to him. In the Hebrew bible, David was just a young man, but he was outraged at Goliath's mockery of God, because only he stepped forward to face his enemy, and his weapon is a sling, but he use only 1 shoot with a stone and killed Goliath.
      1. They 4 are the important Jewish leader, they 4 did a lot of contribution in Judaism.
Christianity
1. Jesus is the son of the god and he is also the leader of Christianity.
  1. Jesus was born in about 6 BCE, he is the leader and the father of Christianity. When Jesus was at the age 30, a teacher known as John the Baptist, he thought Jesus is the Messiah. His mother was called Mary, she has born Jesus without her husband. One of the favorite teaching way of Jesus was through out the Parables. Parables is basically a story that got a lot of wisdom to learn, and teach you a lot of things.
    1. Paul and Jesus were good friends
  2. There was a guy called Paul, he is the missionary of Christianity. He is from Tarsus. At first, he refuse and don't like Christianity, but after he heard the sound of Jesus and saw the blinding light, he believe Christianity and start to be the missionary of Christianity.
2. At about 60 CE. the Romans seem the Christianity as a threat, because they think it is not acceptable in Roman empire. So the Romans start to kill the Christians in many bad ways, such as crucified them, get them into arenas, burning them into death or even brought them in front of the Ferocious beast to let the beast eat them in front of people. At that time the government don't let the Christians to practice their religion.
  1. The reasons that why the Romans were killing the Christians is because the Christians don't think the emperor as a god and they don't worship the other Roman gods.
  2. But there was a emperor called Constantine, he favor Christianity he made a victory battle because of Christianity.
    1. in 313 CE, Constantine announced the Edict of Milan in which he give the freedom of the Christians to practice their religion.
      1. By 380 CE, Christianity was the official religion in Roman Empire.

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