Why did Early Christians kill anyone who did not follow the Holy Roman Empire and its Trinity Doctrine ?

Answer 1

Well, I don't know how "early" you mean, but the Bible says to:

BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: (part 33) KILL UNBELIEVERS - Acts 3:23 … "And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear the prophet, shall be destroyed."

BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: (part 34) KILL UNBELIEVERS - 2 Chronicles 15:12-13 (NIV) … They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul. All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.

Answer 2

What are you talking about? You need to go back and read up on your history. The Christians did not kill anyone. It was the Holy Roman Empire who killed and martered thousands of Christians for spreading the good news found in the Bible.

Answer 3

Do not confuse "early Christians" with the Roman Catholic Church, which is a fusion of Christianity and paganism. The Roman Catholic Church tortured and executed "early Christians", who were simple, humble, pious and Christlike. The Roman Catholic Church also suppressed the light of Scripture, thus bringing on the "Dark Ages", in which people fell into pagan superstition and scriptural ignorance. You could be tortured or killed for having even a single page of scripture on your person. Do not confuse true Christianity with Catholicism.

Answer 4

The inquisitions were judicial institutions or tribunals that were established by the Roman Catholic Church in order to seek out, try, and sentence people that the Roman Catholic Church believed to be guilty of heresy. The purpose of the inquisitions was to secure and maintain religious and doctorial unity in the Roman Catholic Church and throughout the Roman Empire, through either the conversion or persecution of alleged heretics.

Answer 5

Honestly, the Roman Church wasnt all that lined up with scripture anyway, in a lot of different ways, thats why Protestants broke off the way they did. I guess they lacked true spiritual direction.
Read this book "The Great Controversy" it explains a little about it.
Also The Two Babylons, or The Papal Worship

Answer 6

Just to clarify: the "Early Christians" were in fact the "Early Roman Catholics".

Not all early Christians were Roman Catholics, but they had to pretend they were in order to survive.

The Early Roman Catholic Church needed to secure it's position as the State's only religion if it was to survive. Remember that there were many groups of primitive Christians.

Some were followers of Apollos, others of Stephen, others of Paul, others of Peter, others of Mark, others of Mary, others of James, others of John, etc.

Pauline Christianity was the predominant group in the Roman Empire, and was not well seen by other primitive Christians. And Paul was quite effective in fighting those who disagreed with him. His followers learned well how to do the same.

Answer 7

The first century Christians did not kill or follow Rome or trinity. Jesus never bowed down to Rome. He obeyed the laws and paid taxes but worship was only for his Father. He repeatedly said though he was in agreement with his Father in all things, his Father was greater than Jesus, his son.

After the first century apostates came in with false doctrines and behaved just like the Romans did with 1st century Christians. They killed them.

Answer 8

It was more the other way around,

All but one of the Apostles were killed and endured torturous deaths, but still did not deny Jesus.

Peace!

PS but there have been bad things done by Christians over the years, that is what happens when people do not follow Christ.

But killing people that do not agree with Christianity has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus.

Peace!

Answer 9

people may point out that Christians have at times resorted to violence wrongly, including the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. But the comparison is not completely apt. First, Christ Himself never advocated forced conversion and slaughter of unbelievers. Muhammad not only advocated it, but personally cooperated in it. Second, in the case of the Crusades we should be careful not to buy all of the anti-Catholic propaganda being sold. Do you know why Christians fought the Crusades? Because Muslims first forcefully took over Christian lands and persecuted the Christians living there, and controlled Christian holy sites. It is true that some Crusaders did some despicable things in a spiteful, vengeful way. But the Church herself never condoned, let alone ordered, these excesses. And as for the Inquisition, if it was as bad as some anti-Catholics claim, it is odd that there are records of people requesting transfers of their cases to the Inquisition from the secular Spanish courts. No doubt, some horrid things occurred, but it is more accurately understood as the unfortunate result of the weaknesses and sin of individuals, not the official teaching of the Church.

Additionally, the Inquisition never asserted authority at all over non-Christians, unless they were pretending to be Christians. The Inquisition was aimed at eliminating heresy within the Church, not at the conversion of non-Christians.

Answer 10

Because they were not "early Christians". As a matter of fact, they were not christians at all. They were Catholics, a sect that drifted away from the truth long time before the facts.