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  2. Persecution of Christians in the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    The persecution of Christians in the New Testament is an important part of the Early Christian narrative which depicts the early church as being persecuted for their heterodox beliefs by a Jewish establishment in the Roman province of Judea.

  3. Persecution of Christians - Wikipedia

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    According to the New Testament account, Saul of Tarsus prior to his conversion to Christianity persecuted early Judeo-Christians. According to the Acts of the Apostles , a year after the Roman Crucifixion of Jesus , Stephen was stoned for his transgressions of the Jewish law . [ 13 ]

  4. New Testament household code - Wikipedia

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    According to certain studies, the public life of women in the time of Jesus was far more restricted than in Old Testament times. [1]: p.52 At the time the apostles were writing their letters concerning the Household Codes (Haustafeln), Roman law vested enormous power (Patria Potestas, lit. "the rule of the fathers") in the husband over his "family" (pater familias) which included his wife ...

  5. Pastor Carraway describes Christians' persecution - AOL

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    Pastor Carraway, new pastor of Belmont Baptist Church, explained that squeeze persecution involves men getting fired from their jobs, children being expelled from school, pets being poisoned ...

  6. Christian martyr - Wikipedia

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    For evangelicals who read the New Testament as an inerrant history of the primitive church, the understanding that to be a Christian is to be persecuted is obvious, if not inescapable." [ 19 ] The "eschatological ideology" [ citation needed ] of martyrdom was based on an irony found in the Pauline epistles : "to live outside of Christ is to die ...

  7. Coming Persecutions - Wikipedia

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    Elsewhere in the New Testament it is used in a meaning related to the simplicity of children, and it is meant to instruct the twelve that they are to set themselves wholly upon the mission entrusted to them by Jesus. This further shows that the wisdom of snakes, and the innocence of doves, while different, are not at odds.

  8. Category:Persecution of early Christians - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Persecution of early Christians" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... Persecution of Christians in the New Testament *

  9. Antisemitism and the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    The Children of Israel were God's original chosen people by virtue of an ancient covenant, but by rejecting Jesus they forfeited their chosenness - and now, by virtue of a New Covenant (or "testament"), Christians have replaced the Jews as God's chosen people, the Church having become the "People of God."