The History of American Art
Christianity is very practical. It is not a dead, dry, formal, human religion of rituals, outward form, and show, but a divine, living, vital, dynamic, liberating religion. The word Christian means, "Christ like", or "One follows Christ". Jesus Christ, who laid the foundation of Christian Church, was born in BC 4 in Judea. He is the foundation of the Church (1 Cori. 3:10,11). He started preaching about the Kingdom of God when he was thirty. His activities roused the opposition of the Jewish high priests who accused him of blasphemy. He was crucified under the orders of Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor. After three days, Christ was resurrected from the dead. With the Resurrection of Christ, his disciples took heart and went about preaching the Kingdom of God to all the people of the world. Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire where it was made the state religion in the 4th century AD. Later, the Church split into two broad groups - the Western Church under the Pope in Rome and the Eastern Churches under the Patriarchies of Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople. Still later, further disruptions took place. The Roman Catholic Church was broken up by Protestantism, while in the Eastern Churches, many communities like
The Church was founded, not as an institution of Authority to force the name and teaching of Christ upon the world, but only as a witness-bearing institution to Christ, to hold Him before the people. Since they could not do it publicly under the rule of royal Roman Church, they were continuing it in secret. The Roman reaction to them had affected Christians also. Apostle Peter and Paul were martyred at this time. By this Edict, Constantine granted to "Christians and to all others full liberty of following that religion which each may choose," the first edict of its kind in history. On the very same day about 3,000 (three thousand) people were accepted his message and got baptized (Acts 2:41). After the Edict of Constantine, they began to be built everywhere. Jesus Christ is the foundation of Church (1 Cori 3:10) and He is the foundation (1 Cori, 3:11). Since the minister at Rome is the priest of the king, he became endowed with special rights and royal privileges. Since the commons folks were educationally backward, they could not read and understand the scriptures. Jesus said, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my Church" (Matthew 16:18). Following that, four persons began to fight for the Roman emperor's throne. At the same time, the opposition also arose. From AD 303 to AD 305, during the reign of the Roman emperor, Diocletian. Among those who perished in this reign were Simeon, the brother of Jesus, Bishop of Jerusalem, crucified (AD 107), and Ignatius, second bishop of Antioch, who was taken to Rome and thrown to the wild beasts (AD 110).
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