true or false: The Church was considered the official religion..?

Question

was the Church considered as the official religion of Rome immediately after the ascension of Christ?

Answer 1

No. It was persecuted. Even after Constantine, the Emperor Diocletian persecuted them too. It took about 400 years after the death of Christ for Christianity to become the official religion of Rome.

Answer 2

True

This is evident in the writings of the apostolic fathers on through the early church fathers. The disciples of the disciples recognized the primacy of the church in Rome. Granted, when Christ ascended the Church was already established albeit not yet in Rome. But as the life of Sts. Peter and Paul go to show it was truly intended to be that way.

By the way, the Council of Nicaea was to defend the true faith against the Arian heresy, NOT to establish Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. Constantine simply made Christianity free by outlawing the persecution of Christians. See the Edict of Milan.

Answer 3

No. That did not happen until The Emperor Constantine the Great legalized Christianity. In 313 Constantine I and Licinius announced toleration of Christianity in the Edict of Milan, which removed penalties for professing Christianity (under which many had been martyred in previous persecutions of Christians) and returned confiscated Church property.

Flavius Theodosius (January 11, 347 – January 17, 395), also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379-395. Reuniting the eastern and western portions of the empire, Theodosius was the last emperor of both the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. After his death, the two parts split permanently. He is also known for making Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire.

Theodosius promoted Nicene Trinitarianism within Christianity and Christianity within the empire. In 391 he declared Christianity as the only legitimate imperial religion, ending state support for the traditional Roman religion

Answer 4

False. And inaccurate. 'The Church' are the people within the body of Christ. It was never the organizations which sprung from Christian teachings directly.

The Roman Catholic Church was made 'official' by the will of man, and if they were so godly, they would never have made reading a Bible in languages other than Latin illegal. They would even persecute those who read the Hebrew version.

Here is an account from John Fox, an educated Englishman living at the time of the persecutions. The Roman Catholics has amassed writings that told of these persecutions, thinking that they were right at the time for murder, torture, rape, and extortion, all in the name of 'The Official Church'.

PLEASE! Only read as much as you want to. I put this excerpt here for you to read IN CASE you are interested, not to pester you:

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The officers of the Inquisition are three inquisitors, or judges, a fiscal proctor, two secretaries, a magistrate, a messenger, a receiver, a jailer, an agent of confiscated possessions; several assessors, counsellors, executioners, physicians, surgeons, doorkeepers, familiars, and visitors, who are sworn to secrecy.

The principal accusation against those who are subject to this tribunal is heresy, which comprises all that is spoken, or written, against any of the articles of the creed, or the traditions of the Roman Church. The inquisition likewise takes cognizance of such as are accused of being magicians, and of such who read the Bible in the common language, the Talmud of the Jews, or the Alcoran of the Mahometans.

Upon all occasions the inquisitors carry on their processes with the utmost severity, and punish those who offend them with the most unparalleled cruelty. A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. The principal part of the inquisitors' cruelties is owing to their rapacity: they destroy the life to possess the property; and, under the pretence of zeal, plunder each obnoxious individual.

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. If the jurisdiction of the Inquisition is not fully allowed, vengeance is denounced against such as call it in question for if any of its officers are opposed, those who oppose them are almost certain to be sufferers for the temerity; the maxim of the Inquisition being to strike terror, and awe those who are the objects of its power into obedience. High birth, distinguished rank, great dignity, or eminent employments, are no protection from its severities; and the lowest officers of the Inquisition can make the highest characters tremble.

When the person impeached is condemned, he is either severely whipped, violently tortured, sent to the galleys, or sentenced to death; and in either case the effects are confiscated. After judgment, a procession is performed to the place of execution, which ceremony is called an auto da fe, or act of faith.
from Chapter IV, An Account of the Inquisition
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Answer 5

No. Christianity didn't become the official religion of Rome until the 4th century under the
emperor Constantine.

Answer 6

Church means the congregation of worshippers of God.
The answer to your question false because Rome was into pagan religions and persecuted the early Christians.

Answer 7

Constantine brought Christianity to Rome (about 274-337C.E.), Roman emperor (306-337), the first Roman ruler to be converted to Christianity. I used an old fashioned tool called an encyclopedia.

Answer 8

False!

The Church is the term Jesus applied to His people and it is not a religion.

Men, through time, have introduced so many religions based on their individual concepts of the teachings of the bible and other books written by certain scholars.

Religion has nothing to do with Jesus' Church as written in the Bible.

Answer 9

Nope, took about 3-400 years after Christ. That is also when they also decided which parts of the Scriptures to include in the bible to unify the different sects of Christianity.

Answer 10

False. Took almost 100 years to get started and wasn't organized till the council of Nycea in 325 AD.