What did early Christians believe?

Question

did they believe in reincarnation as well? What other things did they believe that are no more believed by nowadays Christians?

Answer 1

I will assume that you mean people close to jesus when he was alive.*
Jesus was an esenian jew, this kind of jews, which its belief exist no more, look for answers on much other religions to complement what they have with the Tora, so they developed the way to find the pure true, which means the pure way to behave acording to God's command.
They were up to share it with the world.
They didnt believe jesus or the holy ghost were gods,
And they think Jesus was a mesiah from God.
*christianity was invented +/- on year 300 as a pagan religion.

Answer 2

Reincarnation, NO, except possibly a SMALL minority. Some of the "Jewish myths" were probably strong since those were common earlier. The TRUE teachings of the Holy Spirit (THROUGH INSPIRED INDIVIDUALS) were prominent for almost 100 years, with the last of those inspired individuals dying during the early 100's. By the time of Justin Martyr, writing in 156 A.D., there was some obvious departure from the apostles' teaching.

Answer 3

The term Early Christianity here refers to Christianity of the period after the Death of Jesus c.33 and before the First Council of Nicaea in 325. The term is sometimes used in a more narrow sense of just the very first followers (disciples) of Jesus of Nazareth and the faith as preached and practiced by the Twelve Apostles, their contemporaries, and their immediate successors.

Answer 4

Most early Christians were Jews no they never believed in reincarnation, that is an eastern philosophy thing. I don't even think the Greeks or Romans believed that stuff. Some of their myths had people changing into trees or flowers but not turning into another person.
The Greeks were always searching for the Truth. the Truth is God so loved the world He sent His only begotten Son to bring us to salvation. Its very comforting thought.. its hard to understand why anyone would want to reject it.

Answer 5

Paul says ,"It is appointed man once to die, and then judgement". You can't get much earlier than that.
They believed much as Abraham did.They just knew that the Messiah was Jesus.None of the church rituals were used by the early church,certainly not infant baptisim,except "communion" with broken matso bread not a round" Queen of Heaven "wafer,and water baptisim for believers(again,not babies) and celebrating Jesus' resurrection.

Answer 6

For starters, they did not refer to themselves as Christians, as they were just Jewish sects, like the Zealots, Essenes, etc. They weren't called Christians until later. Since there was no Bible (yet), they concentrated much of their teachings on the life, death, ressurection and second coming of Jesus. They also adopted alot of the formalities (formal titles, dress, architecture, rules) from already practiced Roman and Jewish religions. The Pope used to be called Pontifix Maximus.

Answer 7

We believe what is written in the Bible. That we were deceived out of our rightful relationship with the Creator, and that He reveals to us who He is through the Scriptures. What He expects us to do to regain, and what to refrain from to regain that relationship with Him. This is in Acts 2:38. The Book of Acts gets us Saved, and the Epistles were written to keep us Saved !! St Mark 16:17 tells what to look for when we are Saved!! We cannot change what is written in the Bible.God did not leave that up to us.

Answer 8

Early Christians believed in a plethora of different ideas. A great majority of early Christian beliefs were destroyed and all evidence of them wiped out by "Orthodox Christianity," which is essentially modern Christianity.

The only reason we know about certain beliefs other than traditional Christian beliefs is that they were written as "heresies" by Church Fathers.

Answer 9

No, early Christians did not believe in reincarnation. They believed what the Bible taught and they believed what Jesus taught them. He taught them about the kindgom of God and what it was and what it would do for mankind. He taught them to pray for it's coming. He taught them the truth about God.

John 17:3; "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ"

John 4: 23: "Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him."

Matthew 4:23: "Then he went around throughout the whole of Gal′i·lee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and curing every sort of disease and every sort of infirmity among the people."

Matthew 28:19 & 20: "(Matthew 28:19-20) . . .Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded YOU. And, look! I am with YOU all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”

Matthew 24:14: "And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."

Luke 10: 1-3: "10 After these things the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest. 3 Go forth. Look! I am sending YOU forth as lambs in among wolves."

Early Christians followed the exAmple and teachings of Jesus and they went out into all the earth teaching others about the kingdom of God, and making disciples from all the nations, just as we are supposed to do down to this very day, Jesus' commands have n ot changed for Christians. We should follow their example as well, and imitate what they did. That is God's will for us as Christians. Never were Christians supposed to hire individuals to preach, but all members of the Christian congregation were to preach and to teach people about the kingdom of God.

Matthew 6: 9 & 10: "“YOU must pray, then, this way:
“‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. 10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth."

Matthew 6:33: "“Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these [other] things will be added to YOU"

Romans 10: 14 & 15: "However, how will they call on him in whom they have not put faith? How, in turn, will they put faith in him of whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? 15 How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent forth? Just as it is written: “How comely are the feet of those who declare good news of good things!”

Answer 10

They had the true faith without the heathen understandings. Faith does not save a person. If you are helped, it is a gift, grace, of the Almighty YHVH. Most people have faith in something else, which cannot save. And in the end most people will choose to be lost rather than come to the Savior YAHOSHUA for salvation!

The Almighty YHVH set up a system. He sent His “Son” YAHOSHUA to die for the sins of mankind so they would not have to. (They could choose to, but did not have to). Any person who chooses not to allow Yahoshua to take care of their sins, chooses to remain attached to their sins. They thus will wind up in the lake of fire which is YHVH’s method of cleaning this world, and eliminating sin and sinners. The Creator set aside the Seventh day for rest and worship. Yes that is the day usually called “Saturday”. We are not saved by obedience, we are saved by faith. However we are saved FOR obedience. As He said in John 14:15 (and in many other places) “If you love me, keep my commandments.
The only thing that will change a person is the indwelling savior Yahoshua. Obviously that is rare in this sinful world.