Early Christianity Research Paper

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Social aspects with early Christianity and todays Christianity is a religion based on a person and its teachings of Jesus Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. It’s been said early Christianity begin just about 2,000 years ago and continues to live. Early Christianity was, and still is to be a group of believers who gather together on a daily basis, occasionally in each other’s homes to worship together. The founder of Christianity was Jesus Christ, who was born in a small town of Bethlehem, better known to be just a few miles Southwest of Jerusalem. On February 27th, in the 4th century, Rome has fallen and a new king, Constantine I as he says he “I want to bring it back “his believe was to arrange a law that said you had to be a Christian …show more content…
I always imagined what early Christianity was like back in ancient times. The early Christian church in the beginning of the centuries after Jesus reappearance delivered the most fascinating transformation of group and religious cultures ever accomplish in the history of the world. It has been said that the rise of Christianity began 27th February, 0380(Timetoast).The ebionites known as the poor believed to be the true followers of Christ, and oppose that he was ever a “god” (Timetoast). There is over thirty to forty thousand Christian denominations. Each one believed in the same thing and that is our god. Jesus began his …show more content…
Sex before marriage still holds high from early years till now in our century that people still believe and follow. They believed in prayer as a group gathering and helping each other in times with one another (bishop). Many Christians hold difference as I said in my previous paragraph on gays, but people still to this day believe same sex marriage should not be allowed. If you ask me I really don’t care what people do with their lives or who they want to marry I am no one to judge or anyone else. It’s up to someone to pick , and choose what lifestyle they want to live, because at the end of the day I believe god will be the one to make that judgement call so that begin said I don’t think someone should judge a book by its cover. Like the verse in the bible says “for in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” Matthew 7:1-5. People gave a sacrifice to worship good. They did that in the early Christians times, and people still continue to do so in my lifetime. Giving up something meant something someone was or is addicted to (bishop) Many people did food more because they say that was an addiction. Jesus fast for 40 days and 40 nights. A lot of people say it’s impossible. But like they say never say anything is impossible, because the worried possible is in

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