Christianity

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” - Paul of Tarsus. Without Paul, Christianity would not be as widely spread as it is today. Paul was a major missionary who spread Christianity throughout non-jewish groups. He reached out to gentiles because Jews did not believe in the New Testament because they believed Jesus was nothing more than a prophet. Missionaries had the duty to spread their words, and because of this almost one third of the Roman Empire…

Christianity is one of the world’s widely most practiced religion and it has a long history tracing back to thousands of years ago. Coptic Orthodox beliefs must be elaborated in a perfect way that the starting point is Jesus Christ is the Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Coptic Orthodox church originated in Alexandria, Egypt by Saint Mark in 200 AD. The word Coptic comes from the Arabic word Gibt or Gypt, this means Egyptian. Today, Coptic Orthodox believers make up 13 to 15% of Egypt’s…

Top 10 Craziest Facts About the Origins of Christianity (That They Don’t Teach You In Sunday School) Christianity is currently the world’s largest religion, with around 2.4 billion followers worldwide (LINK 1). Those of us who were raised Christian, or in predominantly Christian countries like America (where 83% of the population identifies as Christian and almost all of the U.S. Presidents have been Christian), are pretty well versed in the basics of Christianity’s history and tenets: Egypt,…

Constantine’s conversion to Christianity was a pivotal turning point in the highly pagan regime of the Roman Empire (Afoldi, 1948). There has been much speculation by historians and scholars surrounding whether the conversion to Christianity was a carefully articulated political maneuver by Constantine, for military supremacy of the Roman Empire. Historically, scholars suggest that the context in which Constantine was said to have converted to Christianity was a militaristic based context, with…

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…

Christianity was a religion brought to us to promote division,not unity. There are many examples of Christianity dividing people,and separating their values.These examples consist of, the persecutions,The Great Schism,and all the divisions of the whole Christian religion. A lot of people argue that Christianity was brought to us to provide unity,and others argue it was created for division,which makes no sense because why would any create something to promote division. The Great Schism was…

Christianity and Buddhism spread both differently and the same. The two were the same because they both were a runoff of another religion. They both were open for people to convert from another religion, they both creators had their religion spread by their disciples after their death, and they both spread through trade and peaceful contact. A major difference was that Christianity and Hinduism originated from different places. Also Christianity spread through the downfall of the Roman Empire…

of the religion, to Jewish influences on the Christian Bible, the Messiah in Christianity, the religion’s practices and prayers. These cultures not only influenced by example, as Schweitzer said, but through writings as well. It is the ways that Rome and Judaism influenced Christianity that will be analyzed within…

At first, Christianity was just another religion that was practiced inside the Roman empire. Within time, the religion spread at a rapid pace along with the loving and hopeful atmosphere the religion provided to the people. Often times, people that join new religions are the wealthy and common people, that wasn’t the case for the rise and spread of this religion, many poor and uncommon beings would convert to Christianity because it gave them the tools in life to be happy and that why many…

Christianity started growing in the first hundred years of the new era and Islam grew mid 600. Though christianity would only really take hold in the west after constantinople moved the capital and declared christianity his religion (around mid 300). So close to each other in a time where knowledge and beliefs were shared in trade or sieging, it is only natural that the 2 fairly new religions hold similarities. Christianity and Islam have similarities in God, a little difference in poverty, and…