What happened to make the Romans turn Christian?

Question

Jesus was crucified by the Romans who hated him and now the catholic faith is based in Vatican City in the heart of Rome.

What happened to make the Romans Christians?

Answer 1

For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine “legalized” Christianity at the Edict of Milan in A.D. 313. Later, in A.D. 325, Constantine called together the Council of Nicea, in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide. While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were anything but positive. Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian faith, but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine promoted was a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism.

Answer 2

The Emperor Constantine the First declared Christianity the official religion of the empire and launched a wave of persecutions of non-Christians within its borders that lasted for almost twice as long as any persecution of Christianity before then.

Constantine, who probably actually was a Mithra worshipper (as that was a popular religion among the Roman army soldiers and officers) claimed to have a vision of the ChiRho in the sky during which he was told that he would win the coming battle (which would end up also placing him on the throne) if he put that sign on the sheilds of his men.

This was also probably due to the influence of his mother Helena who is described as being a devout Christian (Please remember that Christianity was often tolerated throughout the Empire prior to its "official" status and there were not uniform persecutions of that religion either geographically or chronologically -- UNLIKE later persecutions of Pagans)

Answer 3

There was a certain part of 'Italy' which had a population of Christians living in it. Hence, the Roman Epistle that Paul was responsible for.

What happened is that people were seeing things that made sense, the Spirit of God was with them. No one can come to Jesus without the will of the Father. ( John 6 )

So God got into Rome and stayed there. It even survived the Inquisitions. The Roman Catholic Church persecuted other Christians, those who didn't go along with their teachings.

Answer 4

Jesus is the Son of God and Jesus is God. the two are actual on the same time. in spite of the undeniable fact that, the Roman Emperor ordered their human beings to grow to be Christians and those human beings the place by no ability Christians. This grew to become into no longer Constantine yet numerous Emperors after.

Answer 5

What happened is that the Romans used an ideology to win power.

Emperor Constantine was in very real danger of losing Rome, and was in need of a lot of help, and along came these people talking about someone called Jesus.

He realised the potential of this and to be able to use it against his enemies.
The then Roman church was not too choosy about who supported them, and in a coalition they got together.

So Constantine was in a position to prepare himself to call on all people who had turned to Christianity to stand with him.

At the same time he had, (and please look this up with theologists and historians) a vision of a cross on fire, and hey presto the real birth of Christianity as we know it today.

I dont intend to be sarcastic, that is not what kind of person I am. But I am at such an age as to be fed up of dawdling with the truth.

Best wishes
Ian.

Answer 6

1) Jesus never existed. (1)
2) Even in the Bible, Jesus was not hated by the Romans, he was crucified due to charges by the Jews
3) Constantine saw that it was politically expedient to control people who's lives were miserable with promises of an afterlife that was all joy.

Answer 7

The Emperor Constantine had a crazy vision, where an angel appeared and told him to go and conquer under the sign of the cross, so he adopted Christianity.

Answer 8

Romans didn't hate Jesus; the Jews in his community did. The Romans were merely responsible with administering the laws. They couldn't have cared less who he was one way or the other.

Learn your history.

Answer 9

They needed a new money making gig after the Roman god thing that they borrowed off of the Greeks got old.

Answer 10

Remember John the Baptist when he said "brood of vipers who warned you to flee from the wrath of God and if God wanted to raise children for Abraham He could transform these very stones? He did raise others for Abraham's children.Many from Romans to Indians ,Chinese and even Tongans.