hoe did christianity spread?

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how did christianity spread?

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Answer 1

GOd came to give massage through Christ...Chirst used to give God's massages in coming in the body of Jesus...Jesus did suffer of his own sins.And at the end of his last briath he said why don't u come to help me God.
After Jesus left body and people used to see Jesus they started to belive in Chritiannisme.

Answer 2

At first through the underprivalaged classes of rome, the people who were trown away by the powerful. The confrontation with the roman state didn't really begin until roman citizens started converting. Most of the people who lived in the empire weren't citizens. The privalage of citizenship came with one religious duty, an annual sacrafice to the cult of the emporor, of a lamb if memory serves. If the citizen didn't want to do it themselves they could get someone else to do it for them, with the propor notirization of course. The refusal to do this was considered treason, as the emporors legal authority was rooted in his being partly divine, or the divinly chosen ruler. Treason being punishable by death.

Some people chose to follow the edicts of their beliefs not the edicts of authority and were made to pay the price for it. Given that most of the people in the empire weren't citizens and probably loathed their government the free publicity provided by the persecution only fueled the expansion of the religion.

After Constantines conversion christianity was spread by being the religion of political power and legal privalage. That and the whole convert or die thing, christian mobs ransacking and destroying the temples of rival religions, harassing and murdering non-christians. One of my favorite lines by Stephen King "there is nothing more cruel than a weakling with sudden power"

Outside the borders of the old roman empire unscrupulous pagan chieftans used the christian religion to justify becoming hereditary paternal monarchs. Previously chieftans were elected by a council drawn from the scholor/mystic caste upon the death of the previous chieftan. The chieftans were drawn from their own caste, the warrior caste if I'm not mistaken, but could be either sex. Like the celtic warrior chieftaness Boadicea for example.

Christanity has spread by being the religion of the resentful poor and the imperious wealthy, the opportunisticly humanitarian and the cruely authoritatrian.

Answer 3

OK Christian history 101.

First there was about 300-600 years of the Christian holucost. Yes at one time Christians were killed for being Christian.

Then one day Constatine the ruler of Rome changed the nations religion to Christian (I don't remember if it was 300 or 600 years ad. so what ever year that was became the end of the Christian Holucost).

Christians now controling the most powerfull country in the world (Rome) started going around converting by just about any means neccesary. This continued even when England was the power house. They spred through things like crusades, crazy laws, ect. ect. The Christian church was very evil in these days.

Don't worry though today the Christian religion is not evil, but thats another lesson.

Answer 4

On Pentecost Sunday there were Jews assembled in Jersualem from all over the world, to celebrate the traditional Jewish feast of Shauvot - the day Moses originally received the Ten Commandments.

Per Jesus' instructions, the apostles were waiting in Jerusalem, in the upper room of the Cenacle building, when the Holy Spirit descended upon them.

Inside, all the apostles could hear was wind and thunder, and all they could see was tongues, as of fire, descending on each one of them.

From the outside, the assembled Jews would have seen a huge pillar of clouds, just like the one that hovered over Moses and Mt. Sinai, 1500 years before, boiling and churning above that Cenacle building, accompanied by spectacular lightning, thunder, hail, and other supernatural phenomenon.

Just as all the astonished Jews were coming over to see what was going on, the apostles emerged and began to preach.

Peter spoke, and the assembled foreign Jews, who spoke scores of different languages and dialects, were astonished to be able to understand him perfectly, with no difficulty at all.

Over three thousand were baptized on that first Christian Pentecost, the day the modern church was born.

See Acts of the Apostles 2: 1-47

But that was just the beginning.

Since all those folks were foreigners, in town for the feast, they had a long journey facing them, possibly several months, before they could get back to their homes, which were scattered throughout all the various countries and trade routes of the known world.

Every place they stopped to rest, to eat, or to spend the night, what do you think they told everyone about?

Of course ... the miraculous events which they witnessed in Jerusalem, the good news they heard, the message of salvation in Jesus Christ, and often, the story of their own personal conversion and baptism.

Even without television and other forms of modern communication, stories like these get passed along rather quickly, so it wasn't long before people all over the known world received their first knowledge of Jesus Christ.

As the apostles went out into the world, telling the very same story, they encountered large numbers of local people who already knew of this "Jesus" of whom they spoke, and who were keenly interested in hearing "the rest of the story".

They enjoyed the rapt attention of all, virtually everywhere they went, and made many conversions, baptizing with water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

So it's no wonder the growth of the early church was miraculously quick, and seemed to be sprouting up in many different places, all at the same time .... it was ... through the power of the Holy Spirit, and through the great work of a few inspired and very dedicated men.

It's obvious now, that this was always God's plan, pre-ordained from ancient times.

And no man could stand in his way.

Answer 5

Through the apostles of Jesus, they went almost of all of the world, Peter went to Rome ,Andrew to what now is Ukraine, Thomas to India , Bartholomew to Caucasus and so on.

Paul traveled a lot and wrote many letters to the christians of different cities, that he visited, thes were later compiled into the new testament together with the Gospels by the Church.

The pope sent missionaries to north Germany England and Scandinavia and these places accepted christianity. Later to Asia and America.

Christianity spred to America through the Spanish conquistadors.
And to north America through the French. Some dissenters from the Anglican church took refuge also to the New world, these formed various sects. These ppl now make up christians i th US.

Answer 6

First it started with the disciples who took JESUS words to the World. Then Came along Paul and went on missionary journeys, and even take to the center of the know world at that time. Then other believers took over and it spread from there.

Answer 7

It ran around the middle east and bits of eastern Europe until the 300's, when Constantine, then ruler of the Roman Empire, declared it the state religion (which is why the Catholic church is still today referred to as the Holy Roman Church).The Roman empire, at this point, spanned three continents and was, more or less, what we refer to now as the Western world. Hence it was everywhere.

Answer 8

By Christians bearing witness to Christ in their daily lives, and by word of mouth.

Answer 9

israel to rome then after trials and tribualtions through out the roman empire, indivdual missionaries went to india, ethiopia and russia

Answer 10

Well, in the 1800 the Cristians ruled. They said that if you werent one of them you would be burned or hanged and live in ''everlasting woe''