How Did Christianity Change Over Time

From the first century A.D. to the fourth century A.D., the ideas, development and practice of Christianity changed tremendously from a small Jewish sect during the first century who was among one of the most persecuted groups in the Roman Empire to becoming the state religion of all of the Roman empire during the fourth century. Even though Jerusalem was the birthplace of the religion of Christianity, it was not such a success in this region, in actuality the success of the religion came from outside of Palestine. This is because the church was burned down in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. also there was competition of other religions that looked similar to it in the area; Christianity was taken out of the region by those who travelled to and from the Mediterranean. For most of the early periods of Roman history, Christians were heavily persecuted because Romans felt like it was an infringement amongst the Pagan gods. Many in high power believed that these Jewish sects were practicing private, which was not what one did during this time period. Up to this point everything in the Roman Empire was done in public and the idea of private practice of …show more content…
This causes a major issue for a few reasons. First, there are no written documents of any sort of Jesus’ teachings other than oral tradition for those who knew him, but once they die it becomes difficult to try to understand what exactly is meant by the words of Jesus. During the time of the apostles there was no reference text, Bible, nor was there a need for one they could just ask Jesus himself or thy were there when the event took place. This proved to be a significant issue down the road when the trail running back to the stories and teachings of Jesus were difficult to understand. This is all during the time of the five good emperors when the church was at its