The real plot behind Christianity (please read)?

Question

Before Jesus the Jews were planning a war on Rome and awaiting their messiah (meaning: anointed one, ANY person who is anointed with oil to become a leader of the Jews) to help them defeat the Roman Empire. The Jews were expecting a military leader as a messiah (like king David). The Jews were becoming a threat to the Empire because of this militaristic messiah.
The Romans were only interested in peace and unity of its people. They did not want to fight the Jews but they knew if the Jews were not relieved of their militaristic beliefs, they could collapse the Empire. When this peaceful Jesus was presented as the messiah it turned some of these war enforcing Jews into self-sacrificing martyrs. Even more interesting is that the earliest source of Christianity is the Romans.

The Romans being the source of Christianity served another purpose. As soon as the Roman Empire began its decline the Roman Catholic Church began to grow and prosper.

Most importantly, its authority began to increase beyond that of any other religion. The purpose of Christianity and the church was to carry on the Roman Empire in a new form. It was a success because the Roman Catholic Church is the largest, most powerful and organized of any religion to this day.


Agree or disagree?

Answer 1

Disagree...not into plots. BTW, the fall of the Roman Empire was brought on by Vistagoths (I probably spelled that wrong), not the Jews and the church did not fair so well either. The church has caused more problems for Christians today than it ever solved...in more ways than one. I am not anti-Catholic in any way but the original Roman Catholic Church bears little resemblence to the RCC of today and they and our other forebearers left a huge mess for Christians today to deal with.

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Answer 2

Disagree. The Jews were hardly a threat to the empire. Judea wasn't even a Roman province at the time of Christ, just a useful buffer on the marches to the Parthians. The earliest sources of Christianity may have been Roman citizens, but Jewish Romans like Paul (formerly Saul of Tarsus) and Josephus, and Greeks living under Roman rule.

Answer 3

Completely agree...except for the part about any Jewish uprising having the power to "collapse" the Roman Empire. I highly doubt a small province like Judeah could have that much of an effect on an Empire the size of Rome during the 1st Century when Rome was still at its height. I think it would be safer to say that since the Romans were elitist control freaks (which they were) they simply did not want to tolerate any possibility of revolt which they proved in 70AD when they burned Jerusalem to the ground and destroyed the second temple for that exact reason.

Answer 4

I disagree!

I have no idea where you get your history from. Christianity sprung up in Palestine during the time of the Roman Empire, but was not endorsed by the Roman Empire.

It began in the book of Acts, 10 days after Jesus ascended into heaven. They were in an upper room and the Spirit of God descended upon them.

Paul took the gospel from Jerusalem into Syria, then Cyprus, Macedonia, and Greece. It was not until Paul was taken to Rome to appear before Caesar that Paul began to speak address the Romans and began planting churches there.

It was Constantine that began to merge Christianity and the pagan beliefs of Roman religion about three centuries after the birth of the Christian church, and called it the Universal church.

BTW, Paul called himself a Zealot.
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Answer 5

The Jews expected a military Messiah instead of the suffering Messiah of Isaiah,the Catholic church is the one true church founded on the Apostle Peter and not on Rome.

Answer 6

It is very true that Christianity rose as the order and peace of Rome decayed...Indeed in "The Fall of the Roman Empire" this is presented as one of the important factors.

You portrayed the Romans a bit too affectionately (they would never hesitate to put down a threat to order, Jewish or not) but besides that, your analysis makes total sense. Their were Jewish revolts during the time.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

True Christianity started before the Catholic Church.

Answer 9

I agree that the catholic church is not the true church because firstly, it's name -"ROMAN" secondly, because of its worldly traditions which cannot be justified in the bible

this is the reason why there are so many other christian churches like pentecostal, baptist etc. but these also carry on some of the traditions, i do think however that "the church of christ" is the closest thing to biblical (NOT church of christ of latter day saints)

Answer 10

actually, Messiah is translated "anointed one of God", so it was not an anointing of oil, but of the Spirit.

actually, martyrs didn't come until after He left. Stephen, a deacon, was the first martyr. also, the zealots continued after Christ's ascention. not all were turned (really, Simon the zealot was the only Biblical evidence that any zealots converted)

and romans were also the ones who started to try and kill Christianity off once it became popular. Constantine legalized it after converting himself.