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>> believers in jesus also provided answers to the central mystery of life. >> the questions pagans were asking were, "what was going to happen to me when i die? how do i get forgiveness from sin?" the christian church said, "we can provide you those answers." >> believe in the resurrected jesus and win eternal life. that was the message that had appealed across the roman empire. a message that first spread throughout the huge jewish community outside israel. >> over a million jews in egypt and ...

Understood by the jews, then opposition to this movement is no longer a political thing. its a very strong religious thing. >> in fact, it will come to bitterly divide the family and lead to centuries of persecution. but now in the years after the death of jesus, his followers needed to keep his message alive. and they get two messengers, who could not be more different. peter, the simple fisherman from galilee, who was jesus chief apostle. and paul, the sophisticated pharisee. together they wil...

It marked the beginning of the public split with judaism. >> you both claim the same heritage going back to abraham. at some stage, you begin to give yourself a label or perhaps other people begin to give you a label. and labels themselves begin to set up differences. they begin to make you aware of differences. >> but delivering the jesus message put paul and peter in conflict. pauls open door mission to the pagan gentiles was a huge problem for peter, who thought the resurrection of jesus was ...

>> it was a huge triumph for the new faith, and especially for paul, whose argument had won the day. the jesus message was for the whole world, and those who believe that message would win eternal life. but the biggest test was yet to come. just how would the jesus message go down in the pagan heart of the roman empire? ♪

>> believers in jesus also provided answers to the central mystery of life. >> the questions pagans were asking were, "what was going to happen to me when i die? how do i get forgiveness from sin?" the christian church said, "we can provide you those answers." >> believe in the resurrected jesus and win eternal life. that was the message that had appealed across the roman empire. a message that first spread throughout the huge jewish community outside israel. >> over a million jews in egypt and ...

Fifth through layer after layer of the heavens to the true spiritual wealth. its very attractive. it offers a form of self-discovery, of self-truth, self-realization. >> the nostic message was very seductive. a mix of greek philosophy, egyptian religion, and eastern mysticism. all very contemporary in spirituality. >> the new testament gospels are gospels of the cross. the noose tick gospels are gospels of wisdom. the new testament gospels care about salvation from sin. the nostic gospels compar...

Of the heavens to the true spiritual realm. its very attractive. it offers a form of self-discovery, of self-truth, self-realization. >> the gnostic message was very seductive. a mix of greek philosophy, egyptian religion and eastern mysticism, all very contemporary in its spirituality. >> the new testament gospels are gospels of the cross. the gnostic gospels are gospels of wisdom. the new testament gospels care about salvation from sin. the gnostic gospels care about salvation from ignorance. ...

No longer a political thing. its a very strong religious thing. >> in fact, it will come to bitterly divide the family and lead to centuries of persecution. but now in the years after the death of jesus, his followers needed to keep his message alive. and they get two messengers, who could not be more different. peter, the simple fisherman from galilee, who was jesus chief apostle. and paul, the sophisticated pharisee. together they will create a religion that would change the world. ♪ ♪

>> you both claim the same heritage going back to abraham. at some stage, you begin to give yourself a label or perhaps other people begin to give you a label. and labels themselves begin to set up differences. they begin to make you aware of differences. >> but delivering the jesus message put paul and peter in conflict. pauls open door mission to the pagan gentiles was a huge problem for peter, who thought the resurrection of jesus was for the jews alone. if you wanted to follow jesus, you had...

Council, agrees with paul. >> it was a huge triumph for the new faith, and especially for paul, whose argument had won the day. the jesus message was for the whole world, and those who believe that message would win eternal life. but the biggest test was yet to come. just how would the jesus message go down in the pagan heart of the roman empire? [ sneezes, coughs ]