Before Christianity Research Paper

When the subject of how the world has been shaped to the way it is today, subjects like the Enlightenment, the Roman Era, or Medieval are attributed for these advancements but no one really takes time to give credit to the “wind beneath the wings”-Christianity. This is not saying that without Christianity the world would still be stuck in the Before Christ era but, is simply stating Christianity has been of the key most reasons humanity is where it is today. As stated previously, there are clear visual representations of this advancement. The current secular world believes Christianity to be not only annoying, but that the sole reason for its existence is to convert the pagans to believe in a God that is not really there with no power. Understanding this, Hart states early on, “The Christian view of human nature is wise precisely because it is so very extreme: it sees humanity, at once, as an image of
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.” Jesus understood the only true way to show the world how to love was to love the people who hated Him the most by giving his life for their sins and the sins of many. Christians have understood this from rebirth in Baptism. Each person of the Trinity has a