Why did the Romans stop persecuting the Christians?

Answer 1

It has been estimated that over the three hundred years prior to the time of Emperor Constantine, the Christian Church suffered no more than a total of twelve years widespread, official persecution. THis was simply not enough to stop the spread of Christianity.

Answer 2

God is the answer. He is always the answer. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, is the founder of Christianity. He and God the Father made the plans for the whole world before the foundation of the world was in place. What ever God has or does decree comes to pass. God decreed it and nothing will stop it.

Answer 3

In the first centuries after Jesus' death, conditions in the Roman Empire made it easy for new ideas to spread. The Pax Romana made it safe to travel from one region to another, and the empire's well-defined network of roads and waterways further facilitated travel. The government had encouraged inhabitants, especially those in urban areas, to learn Greek, and the common language meant ideas could be more easily expressed and understood.

Christianity spread very quickly throughout Italy, establishing nearly one hundred episcopal sees by the middle of the 3rd century. The Roman Emperor Constantine the Great personaly converted to Christianity following his victory at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. Constantine's endorsement of the tradition was a turning point for Early Christianity. In 313, Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, legalizing Christian worship, and the emperor would be a great patron of the Church and set a precedent for the position of the Christian Emperor within the Church and the notion of orthodoxy that would be followed for centuries.

Answer 4

Christianity was born in the suffering and death of its founder; Jesus Christ

and because of the persecution, the roots of Christianity was solidify.

additional.: Romans begun to realize that it was more radical and started to silently convert themselves.

Answer 5

By the early fourth century, Christians formed perhaps ten per cent of the population of the Roman Empire. From this point, the faith could have continued to grow slowly or begun to fade out like other religions that had come and gone. By and large Christianity had been ignored by the Roman emperors, until the Great Persecution that began under Emperor Diocletian in 303, lasting until 305 in the West, but continuing until 311 in the East.

Constantine became emperor after the abdication of Diocletian, and it was he who assured the success of Christianity, giving it state patronage, encouraging conversion to the faith and beginning the long persecution of the pagan temples. Constantine's sons and successors continued his support for Christianity and subjected the pagan religions to increasingly harsh persecution, until the public worship of the pagan gods was made illegal towards the end of the century.