Early 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…

order to preach the Gospel to the Romans. The epistles that he wrote have significant impacts on Christianity; and gave the adherents a clear message that Jesus is the Lord, and the only path to God. His Epistle to The Romans gave latter historians and believers sufficient information to study about Christianity, and its development. He was one of the most important leaders in the history of Christianity. Paul was an Anatolian rabbinical scholar from Tarsus. He was one of the Jewish elites from…

with is the guide for their morality and how they should live their life. The most known religions are Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. Although they are different, they all sprung up from similar teachings and ideas. Christianity is one of the most popular religion today, however, it had a rough start like many other religions. Before Christianity got its popularity, what kind of problems did the religion face? How did it all start? The start of a monotheistic…

Christianity, starts out with only the population of Jews, expand into Romans, Muslims, and other culture groups in the past twenty centuries. With Paul spreading Jesus’s words to the gentiles, the Roman has killed thousands of Christian because they see Christians as rebels and want the Roman Empire to fall, which leads to the great persecution in 303. After Constantine take over, he later legalizes Christianity as Romans accept Christianity, which resulted in the Edict of Milan in 313 (Cohen…

Christianity and Islam Christianity and Islam, two of the most well-known and highly practiced religions in the world. While both faiths have significant differences, they also maintain some very surprising similarities. Most people do not compare the two due to the fact that media makes them sound like they can never have any major similarities. Both religions are monotheistic, meaning both believe in the oneness of God, but each religion worships God differently. In Islam, a set of rules are…

There are many differences between Christianity and the different Japanese beliefs such as Shinto or kami worships. One of the most obvious differences is the difference in god worship. Christianity follows one God who is believed to be the creator of everything and believe in the holy trinity. The Japanese however, believe in many gods, goddesses and kami. These gods played many roles and include a story of the god, Izanagi, and a goddess, Izanami, creating islands. These gods also created…

The papacy is the office held by the pope as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. This office spans since the time of Peter to the present modern world. In the days of the early church, bishops in Rome did not enjoy any temporal power. This was the case till the time of Constantine. Following the fall of Rome, the papacy was shaped by temporal leaders that ruled the neighboring Italian Peninsula. With time, the papacy solidified its territorial areas to a part of Peninsula. The bishop of…

The Persecution of the Early Church This article will summarize the reign of the Emperor Valerian from A.D. 253-260 and his policy that lead to the persecution of the church. Emperor Valerian reigned for seven years. At the onset of his rule the Emperor had a positive attitude toward Christians however this changed suddenly resulting in two edicts. Valerian ordered Christian clergy to make sacrifices to Romans gods or be banished. One year later, the second order changed and…

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…

Sacraments are commonly used in Christianity. Sacraments are meaningful actions that make God’s love visible. Sign-acts are used in order to convey meaning. Sacraments are usually observed with the combination of words, acts, and objects. The sacraments that we use and observe distinguishes us from other religions. In the Christian religion, objects that are used in sacraments are water, oil, bread, and wine. Each of these objects holds a significant meaning in the Christian faith. There are…