the origin of christianity..?

Question

where did it originated from? how and by whom? is there valid historical evidence to support?

im no christian!

http://www.solhaam.org/articles/origin.html

Answer 1

actually there is. christianity branched out from the jewish religion. jesus christ was born a jew and his ideology of god was of peace and love was too different, so the jews had him killed off. christianity didnt become a real religion until approximately 1000 years after jesus died after the spread of his tales from his apostles.

Answer 2

its true, it all originated from astrology-- the positions of the stars, planets and sun in the sky. of course our ancestors looked up at these heavenly beings and thought they were gods. they noticed how the seasons changed when the stars were in different placements in the sky, they noticed how the sun disappeared and it became dark. without knowing that they were balls of gasses, they could only assume that they were supernatural deities that controlled everything that happened on earth.. and so they worshiped them and based their entire religion on astrology.. this religion is the bases of all religions we know today, including Christianity.

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Answer 3

read the Bible. It is not 'historical evidence'. It is the revelation of who God is,always has been, and always will be. Christianity is not based on evidence, but on faith in Christ alone who saves. But also for historical purposes, the first Christians are in the New Testament (Acts).

Answer 4

This is a little like asking where did the North American continent originate from.

A whole host of contingencies went into the development of Christianity.

The ancient near eastern urban culture.

The developing sense of the unity between Yahwist tribes in Palestine.

The belief in the eternal covenant of Israel (and the Davidic dynasty) and Yahweh.

The evolving concept of the Messiah.

The vision of followers of Christ being beyond national origins. (The pauline mission to the gentiles).

The need of a religion to unite the crumbling Roman Empire.

Answer 5

The roots of Christianity are a collection of various world-wide creation myths told throughout the ages. Whether these original stories (creator god, world-wide flood, etc.) are based on actual occurrences is up for debate. Most pre-Roman cultures had mythological stories of a "son of god" who performed miracles, had disciples, was executed and rose from the dead. In actuality, these myths are simply metaphors for various astrological events. Jesus was simply another metaphorical representation of the stars in the sky. Why people still take the story so literally is anyone's guess...

Answer 6

Just take the biblical documents not as religious but as secular, that is, before they were all pulled together into the Bible. Well, if you look at the book of Acts, you see something that there is really no reason to quibble about..1) because it isn't said in a polemical spirit.. and 2) nowhere else is it contradicted:
"And it came about that for an entire year they met with the church, and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch." (Acts 11:23-26).

Answer 7

The teaching of Jesus was originally thought to be a way of life. Then Paul started pushing the Deity part. You see he saw a burning bush. However this was him trying to convince other churches that existed at the time, these churches were more family sized (5 to 10) than the large gatherings we see today. Then 50 to 100 years later the Gospels were written. Based on stories repeated, though these stories were intermingled with fabled deities from other lands (Mithraism, Attis of Phrygia, Cybele, and others), they may have even been pages of Paul. They used name of apostles and great storytellers of the time. And beliefs evolved and changed.
At the Council of Nicea around 325ce, 300 or more ministers and teachers gathered and formed the Catholic Church basics.
This is why we believe the way we do today.

Answer 8

Christianity means you are a follower of Christ, so it was in His ministering days that it originated. People of the old biblical days that believed him, and followed His practices were the first Christains. Read your bible.

Answer 9

The Holy Roman Catholic Church was the first "church" with the disciple (Saint) Peter at it's head. It kept Christianity alive through many centuries until it was opposed by Protestants including Henry VIII. Christianity has evolved over the years into something totally different than it was originally.

Answer 10

Jesus Christ founded the New Testament Church, a spiritually transformed body of believers, in the city of Jerusalem on the biblical festival of Pentecost exactly 50 days after Jesus' resurrection from the dead.

Between the time of His resurrection and the founding of His Church, Christ appeared to His apostles for 40 days, further enlightening them concerning the nature of the coming Kingdom of God (Acts 1:3). During that time "He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father" (verse 4). He explained to them: ". . . You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" (verse 8).

Later He inspired the apostle Paul to explain the crucial importance of the receiving of the Holy Spirit in the process of becoming a truly converted member of His Church: "Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead [symbolically] because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness" (Romans 8:9-10).

Through the dwelling of the Holy Spirit in Christians, Jesus Christ and God the Father actively participate in their lives to strengthen and inspire them in their obedience and service to God (Philippians 2:12-13). Therefore, the Church began when Christ's apostles received the Holy Spirit, just as He had promised (Acts 2:1-4). The Spirit of God instantly transformed them. Everyone who heard them realized they had received special inspiration and power from God.

The apostles at once began preaching—to those gathered in the temple area in Jerusalem on that Day of Pentecost—that Jesus of Nazareth was the long-awaited Messiah (or, in Greek, the Christ) (Acts 2:36). They urged their listeners to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus (verse 38). By the end of that day "about three thousand souls were added" to the Church (verse 41).

The Church that Jesus had promised to build had begun! Its members were repentant people who "gladly received" the truth of God (verse 41) and were baptized—symbolizing their acceptance of the sacrificial death of Christ for forgiveness of their sins and burial of their old, sinful ways.

Answer 11

Um, it is that Jesus Christ dude. Notice how his name is in the religion. The historical evidence is the bible, which is a book of metaphors, written by people who spoke in metaphors.