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Why did Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire?

Saint Paul is credited with spreading the Christian faith among the Gentiles - the non-Jewish population of the Empire. Expansion of the Christian faith was slow at first, but Christianity often appealed to poor people who felt alienated by mainstream religions.By the beginning of the 4th century CE, Christianity is believed to have converted about ten percent of the population of the Roman Empire. Scholars believe that at this stage Christianity was evenly split between the proto-Catholic-Orthodox faith and Gnostic Christianity.In the early 4th century, Emperor Constantine gave Christianity state patronage, after which the faith began to expand rapidly, as many felt that it was socially or politically desirable to embrace Christianity. Emperor Theodosius I made Christianity the official state religion of Rome in the 380s, and banned worship at pagan temples in 391. The spread of Christianity was soon complete.Additional Answer:Paul went on 3 missionary journeys telling people the good news that Jesus had died for them but rose again.At first, Christianity spread slowly, mainly in the Greek-speaking east, until Emperor Constantine gave the new religion state patronage and offered various inducements to become Christian. In the end, it was a matter of compulsion. Emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380 CE, at a time when Christians were still a minority of the overall population of empire, and banned the public worship of the old gods in 391 CE. Persecution of pagans had begun early in the fourth century, under Constantine, but under Theodosius it reached ferocious intensity. It was even a capital offence just to look at a pagan statue that had been smashed by the Christian mobs. Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire because only the most pious of pagans were prepared to risk life and liberty for their faiths.Christianity initially spread across the Roman Empire because people were attracted to the message. This happened despite the fact that Christianity met opposition from two quarters:From those Jews who rejected the idea that Jesus should be identified as their Messiah (or Christ), and therefore found the teachings about Jesus quite offensive.From the Greeks and Romans who considered Christianity an unnecessary innovation, and who considered it a threat to either their income or the proper ordering of society.For Greeks, Christianity had great appeal as it met the highest objectives of their main philosophical schools (Platonic, Stoic, and Aristotelian), without the baggage of the traditional cults, and their gods, and their misdemeanors. This also applied to Romans who had been influenced in this way by Greek culture.For those on the fringes of the mainstream Greco-Roman culture, the tribes of the lands which had not yet been substantially Hellenised (made Greek speaking), Christianity came to offer easier access to a higher culture than was available through other methods of cultural interchange, since each community tended to follow its own cult.For poor people, Christianity provided a means of validation of their self-worth, since in Christianity wealth is not the measure of a person. There was also an aspect of mutual help in Christian communities that must have made them vibrant and attractive to others.These can be considered to be a starting point for Christianity's spread. As time went on political factors also had a part to play, and these are discussed in the related question, listed below, "How did Christianity spread throughout the roman empire?"1. The apostles travelled around testifying about God`s kingdom and that Messiah had come.2. They told about Jesus Christ as first hand witnesses and the Holy Spirit was with them.At first it grew by peaceful means through a vast preaching work. By the 4th century the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as it's official religion and began forcing it on the populace to various degrees throughout history.The appeal of Christianity. It is generally agreed that Christianity's promise of redemption and salvation was appealing to many Romans. In pagan religions it was thought that after death one went to the underworld and not much was said about the afterlife. Christianity, instead, offered salvation and hope. Moreover, the pagan gods were indifferent to humans and they were gods to be appeased with sacrifices (natural disasters were interpreted as the wrath of the gods because they had not been honoured). By contrast, Jesus Christ was a figure of compassion, mercy and benevolence.Imperial endorsement.. At the time of Constantine the Great, the first emperor who favoured the Christians, Christianity was influential, but still very much a minority religion. Constantine promoted Christians in the imperial bureaucracy, mediated between competing Christians doctrines, built important Christian churches and enacted laws favouravle to the Chritians.. All but one of the subsequent emperors were Christians. In 380 the co-emperors Theodosius and Gratian issued the Edict of Thessalonica which made mainstream Christianity (the Latin and Greek Churches, which later came to be called Catholic and Orthodox respectively) the sole legitimate religion of the empire. Christianity became state religion ad was officially endorsed by the Roman state. The object of the edict was to ban the many dissident Christian doctrines which were branded heretic. The main target was Arian Christianity, which was popular around the empire and which was persecuted. Thus, the edict also promoted greater uniformity among the Christians.Persecution of pagan religions. Theodosius also introduced laws which banned the institutions and practices of Roman religion which had not already been banned by previous Christian emperors. This made practicing this religion virtually fully illegal. Theodosius either ordered the destruction of pagan temples, shrines and statues or condoned such destructions by Christian monks and zealots. In some parts of the empire there were also forced conversions. These persecutions weakened pagan religions and further favoured the spread of Christianity.People needed something to believe in in and at that time people neede to be acceptedChristianity was institutionalized by Constantine I.Christianity seems to have arrived quite early in Rome. By the fourth-century time of Emperor Constantine it was the only city in western Europe to have a significant proportion of Christians, possibly over ten per cent.Christianity spread in the Roman Empire because of how much they were persecuted. This may sound weird, but it meant that there were only real Christians, no one who wasnt one claimed to be one. This kept Christianity nice and healthy, unlike another time when you were forced by the Church to be Christian, and this was when Christianity went off tracks for awhile.Also, people were amazed that Christians would give up their lives so horribly for their God and so the Romans started to think that if they would give up their lives for this 'god' then there must be something real in this faith.because it appealed to the roman lower class. it's fair to women so women joined in record numbers. slaves liked it because appreciated them as people. and the young church was firmly rooted by the apostles causing it to spread. the final reason was emperor Constantine, he was a Christan and changed the roman religion to Christianity.

Why do you think that Christianity spread so quickly throughout the Roman Empire?

Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire in a series of steps.We can start with the Day of Pentecost, the very first day of the Church, when Peter declared to the thousands gathered in Jerusalem for that festival that salvation, leading to eternal life, was available to all who repented of their sins and were baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. He told them that this promise was available to everyone, whether they were present that day, or in that place, or were far off in time or place. Three thousand became Christians on that day. They were drawn from a crowd of people who came from all over the Roman Empire, and from the Parthian (Persian) Empire as well.A few years later, most of the early Christians fled from Jerusalem, since the authorities there were offended by the preaching of one of the Christian leaders, Stephen. One of the destinations of the fleeing Christians was the Syrian city of Antioch. It was in Antioch that Christianity began to be actively preached to non-Jews. This eventually led to the first organized missionary journey, conducted by Barnabas and Paul, and saw the Christian message go to Cyprus and then to southern Galatia, in Anatolia (modern Turkey). New churches were established in both regions. Further missionary journeys, by Paul and Silas, saw Christianity being spread in Greece and in the Roman province of Asia (also in Anatolia). Other missionaries took the Christian message to other places, such as Bithynia, Pontus and Cappadocia (also in Anatolia), and individual Christians certainly took the Christian message to Rome.So, within a generation of the Church starting, Christianity had already gained a foothold in many provinces of the Roman Empire, and certainly in all the provinces of the eastern half of the Roman Empire.The next two hundred years saw the Christian Church expand and grow from these early roots. We have very little information about how this happened, but we have a few precious fragments, such as the account of the persecution of Christians in two cities on the Rhone river (in modern France). This is discussed in the related question, shown below, "What caused the spread of Christianity to go north of the alps?"In Bithynia (in north-western Anatolia), at the beginning of the second century, the Roman governor, Pliny, discovered that the old cults were being deserted, and Christianity was widespread amongst the ordinary people. He claimed he had been able to suppress the Christian cult, and to encourage the people to return to the old cults, through a widespread policy of torture and execution of those most intractable followers of the Christian religion. Emperor Trajan supported his actions, but warned against a policy of seeking out Christians too vigorously.Meanwhile, supporters of the traditional religions, and particularly the philosophers, were becoming aware of the challenge posed by Christianity. They met it in various ways. The best known of these responses is the work, The True Word, written by a Platonic philosopher in the middle of the second century, and embedded in a rebuttal written by the Christian philosopher, Origen, in the middle of the third century.Origen's influence is rather difficult to assess, however, it appears that most of the bishops of the provincial capitals in Anatolia in the second half of the third century were influenced by his writing and teaching.We know less than we would like to know about Christianity in the second half of the third century. Yet we can discern that the influence of Origen's teaching probably saw Christianity gaining intellectual ascendancy in Greece, Anatolia and Syria / Palestine. It was also gaining a measure of popular support in those places as well as in Egypt.This period was bracketed by the two great periods of persecution in the history of the Church. The first was launched by Emperor Decius in 250, and tried again by Emperor Valerian in 257. The second was launched by Emperor Diocletian in 303. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Church in the eastern half of the Roman Empire grew enormously between these two horrendous events.In the western half of the Roman Empire, the Church was also growing, but it does not appear to have reached anywhere near the strength and importance of the Church in the eastern half of the Roman Empire. However, Constantine's conversion to Christianity, which can be reasonably dated to 312, changed everything, with the Christianity's status in the western half of the Empire being changed from a mostly tolerated religion, and sometime persecuted religion, to a favoured religion. When Constantine became a Christian, he encouraged its spread.In 313, the emperor in the eastern half of the Roman Empire, Licinius, joined with Constantine in publishing the Edict of Milan, which granted Christianity formal tolerance throughout the Roman Empire. These colleagues in the Empire were also rivals, and in 324 Constantine defeated Licinius, and began to rule the entire Roman Empire on his own. Christianity was then favoured throughout the whole of the Roman Empire, in both the west and the east.Christianity was already on the move before Constantine took power; now with state support it grew from strength to strength. The great Christian historian, Eusebius, admitted that he believed that many conversions to Christianity were for the wrong reasons. On the other hand, we have sufficient evidence to show that the free spread of Christianity resulted in many genuine conversions, and more significantly for this topic, the gradual phasing out of the old cults as a central part of the people's lives, with the notable exception of Rome itself.There is no doubt that a large measure of self-interest was involved in some conversions to Christianity. One can understand that this applied particularly to the curial class. These were the rich people who were required to fund basically all the civil functions of the state, and kept the cities operating. Initially, it was a simple change, since those members of the curial class who became Christian priests were no longer required to meet these obligations. This followed the previous practice of extending exemptions to those members of the curial class who took on other civic obligations, such as being priests of the traditional cults, taking responsibilities in the military, or becoming a senator. However, it was not really equivalent, and as a result, in 329, Constantine required bishops and clergy to be generous towards the poor. He also restricted the entry of the curial class into the priesthood.Missionary activities within the Roman Empire continued during the fourth century, with most significant being the mission of Ulfilas to the Goths on the borders of the Roman Empire, which eventually led to large numbers of Goths and other Germanic peoples living within the Roman Empire becoming Christians. As it turned out, these Germanic Christians were largely estranged from their fellow Roman and Greek Christians because the creed that Ulfilas taught them was not the Nicene Creed, but rather a creed that distinguished between the persons of the Trinity.Christianity was spread by preaching and lifestyle evangelism in the early days of the that faith. The roads that Romans had built made travel easy, safe, and convenient.Christianity is based on the life, actions, and teachings of Jesus of Nazarth. He and his early followers lived in the Roman territory of Judea in southwest Asia. They spread Jesus' teachings to many people in Jerusalem and other cities in Judea.The message of Christianity was spread around the Roman Empire by St. Paul who founded Christian churches in Asia Minor and Greece. Eventually, he took his teachings to Rome itself. The early converts to Christianity in Ancient Rome faced many difficulties. The first converts were usually the poor and slaves as they had a great deal to gain from the Christians being successful. If they were caught, they faced death for failing to worship the emperor. It was not uncommon for emperors to turn the people against the Christians when Rome was faced with difficulties. In AD 64, part of Rome was burned down. The Emperor Nero blamed the Christians and the people turned on them. Arrests and executions followed.Christianity was adopted as the official state religion of the Roman Empire, the Empire itself spread Christianity.Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire primarily through Saul of Tarsus, also called Paul. Paul went to the Jewish Synagogues in each town he visited. There were both Jews and non-Jews that would attend though the latter were not officially part of Judaism. Paul would teach a few and set up a church and move on. Leaders were non-Jews who studied Judaism prior to conversion or converted Jews. Despite intense persecution, those committed were not swayed. In fact many direct attempts to persecution the church resulted in further expansion.Latter in history, Constantine was fighting for the Empire. He supposedly saw a cross and was told conquer in this name. He did win and decided to make Christianity the religion of the Empire. From here on out Christianity became the "norm" instead of the outside religion.Christianity began with Jewish followers of Jesus of Nazareth. They believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the "Christ," the savior that the Jewish prophecies said would come to Earth. Jesus taught that everyone must turn away from doing wrong things and start doing things that are pleasing to God. Jesus also taught his followers that they should spread this teaching to everyone they meet.Under the leadership of the Apostles Peter and Paul, Christianity gradually separated from Judaism. Paul mainly preached to the Gentiles, the people who were not Jews. He taught that the God of Abraham is for all people, both Jews and Gentiles, instead of for Jews only. Christians were persecuted by the Roman Empire, as a part of the persecution of Jews. In 64 A.D., Nero blamed Christians for the great fire that broke out in Rome. Many forms of execution were used, including murder, crucifixion, and feeding of Christians to lions and other wild beasts. Christianity continued to spread throughout the Roman Empire, as Christians tried to move farther from Rome to spread their beliefs and escape death in Rome. It became an officially supported religion under Constantine I. All religions except Christianity were prohibited in 391 A.D.A:By the sword. B:Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire in a series of steps. We can start with the Day of Pentecost, the very first day of the Church, when Peter declared to the thousands gathered in Jerusalem for that festival that salvation, leading to eternal life, was available to all who repented of their sins and were baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. He told them that this promise was available to everyone, whether they were present that day, or in that place, or were far off in time or place. Three thousand became Christians on that day. They were drawn from a crowd of people who came from all over the Roman Empire, and from the Parthian (Persian) Empire as well.A few years later, most of the early Christians fled from Jerusalem, since the authorities there were offended by the preaching of one of the Christian leaders, Stephen. One of the destinations of the fleeing Christians was the Syrian city of Antioch. It was in Antioch that Christianity began to be actively preached to non-Jews. This eventually led to the first organized missionary journey, conducted by Barnabas and Paul, and saw the Christian message go to Cyprus and then to southern Galatia, in Anatolia (modern Turkey). New churches were established in both regions. Further missionary journeys, by Paul and Silas, saw Christianity being spread in Greece and in the Roman province of Asia (also in Anatolia). Other missionaries took the Christian message to other places, such as Bithynia, Pontus and Cappadocia (also all in Anatolia), and individual Christians certainly took the Christian message to Rome.So, within a generation of the Church starting, Christianity had already gained a foothold in many provinces of the Roman Empire, and certainly in all the provinces of the eastern half of the Roman Empire.The next two hundred years saw the Christian Church expand and grow from these early roots. We have very little information about how this happened, but we have a few precious fragments, such as the account of the persecution of Christians in two cities on the Rhone river (in modern France). This is discussed in the related question, shown below, "What caused the spread of Christianity to go north of the alps?"In Bithynia (in north-western Anatolia), at the beginning of the second century, the Roman governor, Pliny, discovered that the old cults were being deserted, and Christianity was widespread amongst the ordinary people. He claimed he had been able to suppress the Christian cult, and to encourage the people to return to the old cults, through a widespread policy of torture and execution of those most intractable followers of the Christian religion. Emperor Trajan supported his actions, but warned against a policy of seeking out Christians too vigorously.Meanwhile, supporters of the traditional religions, and particularly the philosophers, were becoming aware of the challenge posed by Christianity. They met it in various ways. The best known of these responses is the work, The True Word, written by a Platonic philosopher in the middle of the second century, and embedded in a rebuttal written by the Christian philosopher, Origen, in the middle of the third century.Origen's influence is rather difficult to assess, however, it appears that most of the bishops of the provincial capitals in Anatolia in the second half of the third century were influenced by his writing and teaching.We know less than we would like to know about Christianity in the second half of the third century. Yet we can discern that the influence of Origen's teaching probably saw Christianity gaining intellectual ascendancy in Greece, Anatolia and Syria / Palestine. It was also gaining a measure of popular support in those places as well as in Egypt.This period was bracketed by the two great periods of persecution in the history of the Church. The first was launched by Emperor Decius in 250, and tried again by Emperor Valerian in 257. The second was launched by Emperor Diocletian in 303. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Church in the eastern half of the Roman Empire grew enormously between these two horrendous events.In the western half of the Roman Empire, the Church was also growing, but it does not appear to have reached anywhere near the strength and importance of the Church in the eastern half of the Roman Empire. However, Constantine's conversion to Christianity, which can be reasonably dated to 312, changed everything, with the Christianity's status in the western half of the Empire being changed from a mostly tolerated religion, and sometime persecuted religion, to a favoured religion.In 313, the emperor in the eastern half of the Roman Empire, Licinius, joined with Constantine in publishing the Edict of Milan, which granted Christianity formal tolerance throughout the Roman Empire. These colleagues in the Empire were also rivals, and in 324 Constantine defeated Licinius, and began to rule the entire Roman Empire on his own. Christianity was then favoured throughout the whole of the Roman Empire, in both the west and the east.Christianity was already on the move before Constantine took power; now with state support it grew from strength to strength. The great Christian historian, Eusebius, admitted that he believed that many conversions to Christianity were for the wrong reasons. On the other hand, we have sufficient evidence to show that the free spread of Christianity resulted in many genuine conversions, and more significantly for this topic, the gradual phasing out of the old cults as a central part of the people's lives, with the notable exception of Rome itself.There is no doubt that a measure of self-interest was involved in some conversions to Christianity. One can understand that this could initially have applied particularly to the curial class. These were the rich people who were required to fund basically all the civil functions of the state, and kept the cities operating. Initially, it was a simple change, since those members of the curial class who became Christian priests were no longer required to meet these obligations. This followed the previous practice of extending exemptions to those members of the curial class who took on other civic obligations, such as being priests of the traditional cults, taking responsibilities in the military, or becoming a senator. However, it was not really equivalent since being a Christian priest did not require the office holder to be engaged in truly overwhelmingly expensive tasks. As a result, in 329, Constantine required bishops and clergy to be generous towards the poor, thus officially requiring the Church to be involved in the charity work of the Empire, a task to which it was already heavily committed. Constantine also restricted the entry of the curial class into the priesthood.Missionary activities within the Roman Empire continued during the fourth century, with most significant of these being the mission of Ulfilas to the Goths on the borders of the Roman Empire, which eventually led to large numbers of Goths and other Germanic peoples living within the Roman Empire becoming Christians. As it turned out, these Germanic Christians were largely estranged from their fellow Roman and Greek Christians because the creed that Ulfilas taught them was not the Nicene Creed, but rather a creed that distinguished between the persons of the Trinity.Saint Paul is credited with spreading the Christian faith among the Gentiles - the non-Jewish population of the Empire. Expansion of the Christian faith was slow at first, but Christianity often appealed to poor people who felt alienated by mainstream religions.By the beginning of the 4th century CE, Christianity is believed to have converted about ten percent of the population of the Roman Empire. Scholars believe that at this stage Christianity was evenly split between the proto-Catholic-Orthodox faith and Gnostic Christianity.In the early 4th century, Emperor Constantine gave Christianity state patronage, after which the faith began to expand rapidly, as many felt that it was socially or politically desirable to embrace Christianity. Emperor Theodosius I made Christianity the official state religion of Rome in the 380s, and banned worship at pagan temples in 391. The spread of Christianity was soon complete.See also the related question, shown below, "How did Christianity spread throughout the roman empire?"through people like Paul and other believer's in the early churchPaul made 3 missionary journeys telling people about Jesus and how he died for us. People then told others and God moved in peoplehow did Christianity spread within the roman empireChristianity did not spread to the Roman Empire. It started in the Roman Empire and spread from there.because of its appeal to the lower class citizens of rome (heaven). 96% of rome was lower class after the pax romanaEmperor Constantine decided to adopt it when he thought that a Christian symbol (a cross) had brought him victory in battle. He made it legal and he even accepted baptism before his death, without banning the rest of the gods. After his death, the Church was quickly organised as a state institution, starting to push back, then fight, then ban all other religions.Christianity spread within and throughout the Roman Empire when Emperor Constantine I claimed that he had seen the vision of a cross in the heavens, just before the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. Constantine explained that he had heard the words "En toutos Nika" (in Greek) or "In hoc signo vincis" (Latin).EvangelismState patronage, beginning with Emperor ConstantinePersecution of the pagan templesImperial dictate, beginning with Emperor Theodosius

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