if jesus was born in israel, why is it the center of christianity is rome?

Answer 1

Israel rejected Jesus as the messiah. but when Paul went to Rome, they received the message of Jesus. in the third Constantine was converted to Christianity by his mother, and he make Christianity the national religion.
at that time Rome controlled most of the known world.

Answer 2

Because Saint Peter, the first Pope, came to Rome to build the Church. According to the legend, he was crucified in Rome, and after him, Rome became the location of the center of Christianity. Remember that Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire, which was at that moment like the capital of the known world, and Christianity would become its heir, its successor.
Obviously, it should be in Rome

Answer 3

Much of the Christian world would disagree with you that the center of Christianity is Rome. The center of true religion in Jesus's day was indeed Israel, and in particular Jerusalem, where the temple of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was located. Jesus once discoursed with a Samaritan woman and said the following: "Woman believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain (of Samaria) nor in Jerusalem shall you worship the Father. You (Samaritans) worship that which you do not know, we (Jews) worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming and now is , when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:21-24)
What Jesus was saying is that the true worship of God has nothing to do with locations or cities or holy places, because God the Father does not dwell in a physical location, but He exists in the sphere of the spirit and in the sphere of truth. We can only become rightly related to God and true worshipers of God when we have been born of the Spirit - the Holy Spirit of God, as described by Jesus in the preceding chapter of John's Gospel. Once we have been restored to right relationship, through faith in God's atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, we enter into a living relationship with the living God, and are free to worship Him and offer acceptable spiritual service wherever we are physically situated.

Answer 4

Jesus told the woman at the well (John 4:16-26) that people do not have to worship God at the Temple in Jerusalem or at Mount Gerizim -- but that true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. Christianity has no center because God is omnipresent and omniscient. He is with us always, even to the end of the age.

Answer 5

In order to understand that you need a lesson in europan history, ancient middle eastern history and history of catholicism.
Briefly: under the Isamic empire at it's height streched from southern spain all to way to present day pakistan, at one time it even stretchd into russia with the mongols who later converted to Islam. They conquered Jerusalem and the so called holy land, it wasn't until the crusades that it was recatured then lost and so forth. However christianity did not officially become the religion of the roman empire until emperor constantine established in the center of the then Byzantine empire, constantinople which is present day Istanbul in turkey.
The present day vatican wich was officially creatd in the early 1900s (1929) from th former larger papal states is the center of christianity if you are roman catholic, protestants, eastern othodox christians have a different view of the center of christianity

Answer 6

Rome is NOT the center of Christianity.

Rome is the center of the Roman Catholic Church.

There is a difference between what the bible says about being a Christian and what Catholisim says about it's religion here is a web site where you can get information about those differences:

http://www.reachingcatholics.org/mainpage.html

Answer 7

Actually the center of christianity was Alexandria (you know, the place of learning and enlightenment which had the greatest library on earth until the Romans burned it down), and the center was then relocated to Rome (you know, that place where Mithra was worshiped [who also was the son of god, savoir of the world, had twelve disciples, last supper, etc.)

Answer 8

Your question did not escape Ezekiel in his writings.
Two Eagles and a Vine
Ezekiel 17:1-8 The word of the Lord came to me; "Son of man, set forth an allegory and tell the house of Israel a parable, Say to them,'This is what the Sovereign Lord says; A great eagle with powerful wings, long feathers and full of plummage of varied colors came to Lebanon. Taking hold of a top of a cedar, he broke off its topmost shoot and carried it away to land of merchants, where he planted it in a city of traders.
"He took some of the seed of your land and put in fertile soil. He planted it like a willow by abundant water and it sprouted and became a low, spreading VINE. Its BRANCHES turned toward him, but its ROOT remained under it. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out leafy bough.
" But there was another eagle with powerful wings and full plummage. the vine now sent out its root toward him from the plot where it was planted and stretched out its branches to him for water. It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become splendid vine.
The first eagle that carried off the shoot that became the vine with branches was Rome. The country during it heyday was a land of merchants and traders. The second eagle is obviously tha land of opportunity that is now regarded as the most powerful country in the world , the United States. Both countries mentioned have a powerful eagle as their nations symbol. Jesus is greatly called the Vine and his followers its branches. I have to capitalize the word "ROOT" earlier as it stands for the Old Testament which they are trying use sparingly according to what is suited to their teachings.

Answer 9

You're right. Jesus was a Jew from the West Bank.

Answer 10

I'm not a christian but in my opinion the center of any religion is within you.