HIST 1001 Chapter : Christianity II
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The pope is the answer to the second question. One problem, for the first three hundred years of christianity there was no pope and no bible. The second question is a question of authority. Jesus in the new testament was unclear in what people needed to believe and did not leave a power chart. So the early christians had to figure it to for themselves. The first christians were jews who lived in jerusalem, the center of christianity. They created a structure that was the same as the jewish temple. The board of the jewish temples was a board of elders. There was a president called a episcopus in greek. There issue was: do we preach to non jews also known as gentiles. This is where we have our first problem. James was the brother of jesus (if you"re. He was the one who said we do not preach to non jews.
