What would Christianity be like today if early Christians had chosen to ignore what Christ said instructed?

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about preaching and teaching the word from house to house, town to town, but instead, just built large and expensively ornate churches to impress those seeing them with the hope it would encourage them to convert?

Of course, since all except one of the Apostles of Christ were uneducated, lower class individuals, they likely didn’t have the money to do this without forced donations such as tithing.

The one person who was educated and upper class, used his knowledge and position to prove these early Christians were a cult. It took being blinded for him to see the light that these strange people that were creating their own Bible to support their beliefs, and not relying on the only true scriptures of God that Israel had used for centuries, were actually teaching the truth. We now know him as Paul.

Answer 1

this question is pretty deep ... dumb it down alittle ... thats pretty much what has happened isnt it ...

Answer 2

You can't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Just because things changed, once the Holy Roman Catholic Church started in approx. 334 BC, doesn't mean that true followers are less saved than those saved during the first and second centuries. Not every member of the Catholic Church is lost, but as an organization, they have changed alot of the practises of the church as a whole.

However, if one of the most educated Jews of the day becomes convinced that Jesus is the Messiah, what else do you need?

How about this "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" When you've read and studied this, you will also see.

For the less educated, this is how Psalm 22 was identified at the time Jesus walked on earth.

Answer 3

The "Christian" church of today (all variations) is a very different beast than the original band of believers that roamed around with Jesus. A great deal of what is dubbed "Christianity" isn't Christ-like at all, and most of the stuff that seems un-Biblical actually is.

Many influential Christian leaders over the years (especially in 3-400) have written extra material for the Bible and have spread outrageous lies and doctrines to support the Church as a money-making, power-wielding social-order machine. The Church was seen as a way to maintain order and bilk money and property from believers. Non-believers (that is, whomever the Church wanted to hush up) were branded as heretics and were often killed, leaving their possessions free for the Church to nab.

Early Christianity was a charming, sweet, naive religion that talked about equality, social justice, helping the poor and downtrodden...and over time, it's become something much more insidious.

But that's what happens when a good idea becomes a large corporation.

Answer 4

The early Christians were sincere people who believed that Jesus was the promised Messiah. They didn't believe He was God, but a Prophet and Messiah of God, promised in the Scriptures. Their main aim was to spread the Good News of His coming and establish communities based on love, brotherhood and charity. They had no interest in theology or ornate churches. Paul was a well-educated Jew who converted to Christianity. His teachings are difficult to understand, and have been greatly misinterpreted in order to form the basis of modern Christian theology.

Answer 5

What do you mean the early Christians did ignore that teaching the catholic church hided the bible from the people, it could mean death if a layman was found with one, and what about all the cathedrals that are all over Europe

Answer 6

This is in the same category to me as "what would it have been like if the tabernacle in the wilderness had not given way to King Solomon's Temple" - any method to increase understanding and effectiveness of the Gospel outreach to save men's souls from eternal damnation is certainly in line with the plan of God.

Answer 7

Funny that you know more than Peter who God declared would build His church on His testimony and more that John the Beloved Apostle. These men were taught by the master Himself

Answer 8

I think it would be a more realistic view on worship. What is real and what is BS would have been written, and people wouldn't be as separated by their beliefs... they would have been brought together.
Or we would just party once a year under a Big Gold cow!!

Answer 9

Probably as they are today, since about 95% of Christs' other teaching are ignored, as well.

Answer 10

if the early Christians ignored Christ then they wouldn't be Christians, now would they? Christian means Christ-like, and if they didnt do as He said, then they wrent acting like Him which makes them not Christians...

Answer 11

Early christian were EXTREMELY varied in their belief systems and what Scriptures they used. It was not relay until Nicea that any real conformity came about - and even then it was forced by Imperial law!