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What difficuty did early christians face in practicing and spreading their religion?
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∙ 9y ago
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They had to practice in secret
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 8y agoAnother answer from our community:Many Christians had to spread Christianity secretly. They wre usually killed or severly tortured if they were caught telling people about God. The torturing was so horrible and gruesome in the early Christian days. The challenges they faced were people killing them, being tortured, being caught, being hanged, and being exiled or burned at stakes.
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∙ 8y agoEdward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) says that the early Christians faced many challenges in spreading Christianity.
One such challenge was sceptism. Gibbon says that in the days of Ireneus, about the end of the second century, the resurrection of the dead was very far from being regarded as an uncommon event by Christian missionaries. A noble Grecian promised Theophilus, bishop of Antioch, that, if he could be gratified with the sight of a single person who had been actually raised trom the dead, he would immediately embrace the Christian religion. In his usual ironic way, Gibbon found it somewhat remarkable that the prelate, however anxious for the conversion of his friend, thought proper to decline this fair and reasonable challenge.
Such were the challenges faced by the early Christians in spreading Christianity that Gibbon estimates that by the reign of Constantine, after almost three hundred years of Christian proselytising, only one person in twenty in the Roman Empire had embraced the Christian religion.
Of course, the early Christians sometimes risked persecution, but this should not be exaggerated. Dionysius reported that ten men and seven women suffered for their religion in the important Christian centre of Alexandria during the Christian persecutions instituted by Decius in 249-51.
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∙ 14y agoOpposition from political and religious leaders; persecution and death.
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∙ 9y agothey spread throughout Rome even when it banned
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∙ 9y agoA confused and deceived world. Even though the Jews were awaiting the Messiah, they did not or refused to recognize Jesus as He to their loss.
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∙ 10y agoLeprocy, taxes
What challenges did early Christians face practicing and spreading their religion?
severe persecution
What challenges did early christians face in practice and spreading their religion?
severe persecution
What challengers did early Christians 's face in practicing and spreading their religion?
Early Christians faced opposition and persecution. Their refusal to offer sacrifices to the Roman gods, which were public civic activities, was considered treason because if the gods were not appeased they would not protect the Empire. Every new religion is persecuted. Muhammad and early Muslims were persecuted. Today members of the Baha'i Faith, especially in Iran, are persecuted, jailed and even killed simply for believing that Muhammad was not the last Messenger/Prophet from God.
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