Development of Christianity

DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIANITY

Christianity developed as a combination of Jewish monotheism and Roman universalism . It developed this way because it started out in a society that was anti-Jewish and Roman , and ended in a society that was Roman and Christian . Christians were originally persecuted by the Romans along with the Jews , who also persecuted them . One of the earliest people to spread Christianity to Greece and Asia Minor at the same time was the apostle Paul . Pauline Christianity synthesized the role of Jesus as a divine figure with Greek traditions . Christianity emerged

br from Judaism , but there are key differences to remember . The Jews view themselves as inheritors of a historical religious tradition that binds their society together no matter where it is . Christian eschatology does not view the coming of God as a historical event

The apostle Paul still left a definitive and lasting impression on Christian history and the way Jesus was thought of by the mass numbers that Paul was able to convert in Greece and Asia Minor . Paul , who received a vision of Jesus that blinded him , and then was miraculously healed , became one of the first Christian evangelists , spreading the word of Jesus throughout his lifetime . His traditional pattern of teaching was to begin speaking at a local synagogue , get thrown out , and continue to preach to the masses in more bucolic areas , establishing small churches through the teachings of Jesus that were later expanded in other evangelical trips

Through his wide travels , purposeful indifference to persecution , and the expostulation and sometime exhortation of the idea , still generally applied , that Christians cannot impose an ethnicity upon those who come into the faith , Paul spread the word of Christianity , performing exorcisms and miracles , guided by his concept of otherworldly forces while still being grounded in his ability to tell their voices from his own . Paul set a whole new precedent for participating in Jesus . It is also arguable that the prevailing conception of Jesus changed with the social territory Paul covered , graded upon the inhabitants ' prior belief systems as adaptive mechanisms that accepted while changing the idea of Jesus in ways that were primarily Jewish (paternalistic , monotheistic Greek (Dionysian , and Roman (universalist

As time went on , the idea of Jesus returning to earth became less popular and the

religion shifted from being persecuted to being accepted , revitalized and set in a system

of official theology . The idea of Jesus at this point changed as it was determined

universally by council what was to be thought of Jesus whether or not he was human or

divine , submissive to the idea of the father , etc . It is easy for any society to take the

parables of Jesus and do virtually anything with them , since many of the parables are so

open-ended . Some of these confusions were cleared up by councilor definitions , and

others were added . All of the gospel had a different agenda in presenting the life

of Jesus this is perhaps the main reason , apart from the...