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The New Book, “The Great Awakening” by Author Jerry Scrivo Shares the Miraculous Rise of Christianity in the First Century And the Battle That Made It Possible
The Great Awakening
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.
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Jerry Scrivo
Jerry Scrivo is an automotive engineer who has worked 40 years in the industry with both manufacturers and their suppliers as a test engineer manufacturing engineer and as Engineering Manager. In 2001 he retired from engineering but continued his career as a management consultant working with business owners, to put his master’s degree in management / marketing to use.
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I enjoyed reading your book “The Great Awakening” and it was very interesting and informative. You must have spent an enormous amount of time and work researching all the references and organizing the enormous amount of material. Your specific dates of the first century events were very new to me. It filled in a lot of things I didn’t know.
Neal
A Must-Read Book
The bible was written over 2000 years ago to record and proclaim the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. There was no need for detailed historical context because authors and readers were all living in the context!
Now believers and unbelievers have a huge scientific, historical and cultural contextual basis on which to draw. Using it helps us to answer questions out of the scriptures.
Ten contextual questions which are answered in this book are listed below.
- Why is the earth only 4 billion years old when the universe has been around for 13 billion years?
- Why didn’t humans appear on earth until 6000 years ago?
- How could eleven simple leaderless workmen spread Christianity after Christ left them?
- How soon after Pentecost did Christianity spread beyond Judea?
- What enabled Christianity to flourish in the face of brutal persecution by both Jews and Romans?
- How could Christianity continue after most of the apostles had died?
- When missionary journeys ceased, how did Christianity continue to spread?
- Why didn’t Christianity die out after the Apostolic age? It only amounted to less than .5% of the population then.
- Did God actively intervene to enable Christianity to survive in the 200 years after the apostolic age?
- How and why did the Roman empire turn to Christianity as the state religion three hundred years after Jesus’ life?