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Chapter 5 Early Christianity: A World Religion Origins of Christianity As confidence in human reason and hope for happiness in this world waned in the last centuries of the Roman Empire, a new outlook began to take hold. Jesus: Moral Transformation of the Individual Around the age of thirty, no doubt influenced by John the Baptist, Jesus began to preach the imminent coming of the reign of God and the need for repentance—for a moral transformation so that a person could gain entrance into God’s kingdom. Although Jesus did not intend to lead his fellow Jews away from t