The Great Awakening

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a historical look at the first 100 years of the Christian Church on earth. It shows how improbable the rise of Christianity was when looked at from a human perspective. Nothing in the human experience would support this outcome given the circumstances in which it occurred.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Many of us believe that humans are the highest forms of life that there are no supernatural beings. Buy God does exist but so does Satan. The result is a cosmic battle between good and evil that shapes our daily lives. Free will allows us to sin even after becoming Christians.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Human conflicts are not merely personto person or nation to nation but fundamentally a battle between good and evil between God and Satan. All evil comes from Satan while only good comes from God.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jesus' crucifixion apparently eliminated his threat to Satan thought but the resurrection showed how wrong that was. Game on making the first 100 years a critical time in a cosmic battle between good and evil. The first century success of Christianity was a great Christian achievement. This book provides the historical context which demonstrates that God working through humans enabled the birth of Christianity in the 1st century AD.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The eleven remaining leader less disciples were fearful for their lives and ill equipped to spread gospel. Their success was truly an act of God's a first battle in the ongoing war between good and evil which continues to this day. An epilog details how Christianity reached maturity in subsequent centuries.</span></p>