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Why do you think Christianity spread despite the fact that early Christians were often persecuted?
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∙ 11y ago
Christianity was able to spread because the Europeans sailed around the world. A famous and well-known example is Christopher Columbus who sailed around the world in 1492 and later went to islands of the Americas and later Europeans helped spread this religion.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoChristian tradition holds that persecution of Christians began under Emperor Nero, but Richard Holland (Nero: The Man Behind the Myth) says that the lack of an authentic and specific early Christian source for a mass persecution under Nero is very odd. He points out that even Acts of the Apostles makes not the slightest reference to the persecution by Nero of any Christians at Rome, let alone a great multitude of them. It appear to be complimentary about the Romans as compared wirh Jews. The third-century Church Father, Origen, writing (Contra Celsum, 3.8 ) of the total of Christian martyrs up to his own time, in Rome and elsewhere, states that there were not many - and that it was easy to count them.
In more recent times, Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) reports that the ecclesiastical writers of the fourth and fifth centuries ascribed to the earlier, pagan magistrates the same degree of implacable and unrelenting zeal which they now felt against the heretics and the pagans of their own times.
Christianity spread in the general absence of persecution, although it had still only converted around ten per cent of the population of the Roman Empire by the time of Emperor Constantine. One Constantine and his Christian successors were in power, unrelenting persecution did become a fact of life, but it was the persecution of the pagans, not the Christians.
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∙ 14y agoBecouse Christianity teaches the truth and no matter how much you persicute it, it will always remain.
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∙ 11y agobecause there was a Roman Emperor who liked Christianity and helped make it one of the most popular religions in Rome.
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∙ 9y agoChristianity spread throughout the world
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How did Constantine change Rome in a way that spread Christianity?
He ended the persecution of Christians
In 313 CE Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan. What effect did this law have?
It promoted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by allowing people to worship freely. -APEX
Why did the Romans try to stop the spread of Christianity?
The Romans did not try to stop the spread of Christianity. There were alternations between periods of toleration and periods of persecution. Some Roman emperors thought that Christianity was a threat to the Roman state because many bureaucrats and soldiers converted to Christianity. The Romans saw their state as being interlinked with Roman Religion. The persecutions were aimed mainly at the civil service and the Christian clergy, rather than Christianity as such. The last and worse persecution, the Great Persecution, failed because it was difficult to implement, because of the resistance of the Christians and because it undermined the stability of the empire. After that, the emperors endorsed Christianity, favored it over other religions and promoted it. Eventually, Christianity became the state religion of the empire. With imperial support, the spread of Christianity accelerated.
Why were europeans so interested in exploration the 1400 and 1500?
To spread Christianity. They thought it was what their God wanted them to do as if it would help save the people of the world.
Why did crusaders fight?
because The wanted to spread Christianity
What were the effects of the Christianity spread?
As Christianity spread it faced many oppositions. Some of the Christian that helped in spreading the gospel were persecuted, jailed and tortured.
How Were Judeo -Christian ideas spread throughout the roman empire?
The apostles traveled in parts of the empire to spread Christianity. The Christians then developed churches with priesthoods. The clergy had a missionary spirit and endeavoured to convert the pagans. The emperor Constantine the great converted to Christianity. All but one of the next emperors were Christians. Imperial endorsement was important. In 380 mainstream Christianity was made state religion and the sole legitimate religion. Dissident Christian doctrines and the pagans were persecuted.
Why did Christianity spread despite persecution in Rome?
because jesus died for his beliefs
How did the decline of Rome help spread Christianity?
Christianity did not contribute to the collapse of the empire. It contributed to a greater sense of unity and more stability. Christianity became the religion of the masses in the empire. It was declared a tolerated religion because the great persecution of Christians by Diocletian had created serious unrest. Once the state acknowledged Christianity, unrest ceased and the state regained legitimacy in the eyes of the Christian masses.
How did Constantine change Rome in a way that spread Christianity?
He ended the persecution of Christians
Why did Christianity spread to Americas?
Simply because many christians were amongst the first settlers.
The spread of Christianity persecution of Christian and the triumph of Christianity?
The spread of Christianity - Christianity is becoming extremely popular on a Global level. There are proven to be around 25 million conversions (from other religions) to Christianity, per year. It is estimated this number will grow widely around places such as Africa and some parts of Asia.Persecution of Christians - Christians are persecuted and abused in several Muslim countries. These include areas such as Palestine, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Though, over the last few years, the abuse has started to slow as the UN tries to put a stop to the religiously motivated attacks.Hope this helped
What did Spanish and Portuguese Christians unite in the 1400s?
Spanish and Portuguese Christians united in the 1400s to spread protestant Christianity around the world.
Where is the place of Christianity?
Christians worship in churches. Christianity spread throught the world with the help of the Roman Empire, but It originated with Jesus in Isreal.
How popular is Christianity in Australia?
Christianity is the main religion of Australia and many churches are spread throughout Australia where Christians can practise their religion. According to the latest census, 70.3% of Australians claim to be Christians.
How did rome help with the preservation and spread of christianity?
They chased and killed christians, and christians fled and spread the gospel through Asia and Europe. On the other hand, they also preserved versions of the early bible books in their vaults.
Who were the early Christian martyrs- What effect did their sacrifices have on the spread of Christianity?
Stephen was the first martyr. People saw these lives of these early christians and became christians.
