See Acts 11:26
2007-10-30 04:54:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In Antioch
Before that.....they were known as "People of the Way"
2007-10-30 04:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Acts 11:26. I can tell you there are not in protestant churches in Antioch, you know straight street in the book of Acts you know that church is still there, and it is an Orthodox Church.
2007-10-30 12:02:53 · answer #2 · answered by alexandersmommy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Antioch, around 50 A.D. Acts 13?
2007-10-30 12:04:31 · answer #3 · answered by zeal4him 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that happened after Paul had preached to the Romans, and all the catholic churches started going up all over the place, there was the Roman Emperor, I believe it was, it starts with a C, but I just went through my Bible, and I can't find it anywhere, maybe someone else can, but He is the one that started to believe, and the word started spreading about the good news.
2007-10-30 12:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Acts 11:26
And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch
2007-10-30 11:57:49 · answer #5 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The term appears to have been in use to describe the gentile followers of Jesus from the earliest days. It may originally have been a Latin word used by the Roman authorities to describe this troublesome sect.
2007-10-30 11:59:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There were Christians as soon as Jesus started preaching and they were those that believed him to be the son of God. The disciples were the first recognisable Christians.
2007-10-30 12:19:30 · answer #7 · answered by ANF 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This question has been answered several times so I won't bother. I do want to make the point that Christians that answer the question, just simply do that. Whereas the non-believers answer dumb short and insignificantly, just to prove that they ARE.
I say they are AFRAID of the truth.
2007-10-30 12:05:26 · answer #8 · answered by stranger2ooo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm guessing AD 65-70 that is when Acts was written.
2007-10-30 12:04:12 · answer #9 · answered by preacher 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The first church of Jesus Christ founded by the disciple Peter the Rock in the town of Antioch! Read your bible please it is all documented there in the book of Acts!
2007-10-30 18:05:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
As early as 200 BCE, there were Pagan worshippers of Serapis that called themselves "Christians".
CHRISTIAN ~ the word is Greek, and has a formerly Pagan usage:
CHRESTOS MITHRAS pure, sacred, good, holy. (Roman meaning was interchangable: "good Mithras", or "holy Mithras")
CHRIST HELIOS (Mandaean)
CHREISTOS OSIRIS (Alexandrian)
A correspondence of Emperor Hadrian refers to Alexandrian worshippers of Serapis calling themselves ‘Bishops of Christ’:
'Egypt, which you commended to me, my dearest Servianus, I have found to be wholly fickle and inconsistent, and continually wafted about by every breath of fame. The worshipers of Serapis (here) are called Christians, and those who are devoted to the god Serapis (I find), call themselves Bishops of Christ.'
–Hadrian to Servianus, 134A.D. (Quoted by Giles, ii p86)
2007-10-30 12:06:08 · answer #11 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋