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1 | How did 1st century Rome affect Israel? | Bible general Archive 3 | Seeker08 | 160825 | ||
How did 1st century Rome affect early Christianity with particular regard to Israel? | ||||||
2 | How did 1st century Rome affect Israel? | Bible general Archive 3 | Makarios | 160826 | ||
Greetings Seeker08, After Jesus ascended into heaven, the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, and Christianity began to spread throughout the world. Christianity faced so many obstacles in the 1st century, but as the church grew, it became apparent that the efforts by the Jewish leaders to suppress the Christian faith helped it to spread as the scattered church gained new converts wherever the disciples went (Acts 11:19). The Christian base was no longer Jerusalem (Acts 3), but moved to Antioch (Acts 11:20,22,26,27), and to many other cities as the disciples spead. Paul was a unique apostle because he was a Roman citizen, and therefore was able to travel throughout the entire Roman Empire, delivering the Gospel wherever he went, and growing the church. In this era of Pax Romana, or peace, Christianity was able to thrive as ideas were exchanged and Roman citizens who were converts to Christianity were able to share their faith. Perhaps the early Roman attitude towards Christianity was much like that of Gamaliel, who in Acts 5:34-39 suggested that the Jews simply leave the Christians alone and give this new 'Way' time to flame out. But Christianity would not die, but only grow in leaps and bounds and eventually conquer the Roman Empire itself. At first Christianity must have seemed just another new religion from the Near East, one among many. The birth of this new religion did not seem that important to Rome - it was merely seen as a local sensation in an obscure and backward province. And the Romans would deal with what they DID see as a problem - a newfound Jewish nationalism - that would efficiency be dealt with in the Jewish War of 66-70 A.D. The Romans destroyed the Jewish Temple, and now today all that is left standing of the Jewish Temple is the western wall. The Roman Empire normally tolerated religions, as long as their adherents were willing to sacrifice to the emperor. But Christianity was eventually able to make great gains within Roman society. As Christianity grew, it quickly became illegal, since Christians would worship God alone, and not the emperor. In A.D. 64, the Roman emperor Nero burned to death many Christians, beginning a great persecution of Christianity that would last until 313 A.D., which is when Christianity became officially 'tolerated' by the Roman Empire. As long as Christianity remained illegal, Christians were at the mercy of imperial disfavor and unpopularity. But fortunately, no emperor regarded Christianity as much of a threat to institute a systematic, empire-wide campaign against them until 249 A.D. There were, however, a number of local, temporary persecutions and many, many martyrs up until that time. But Christianity would grow in spite of persecution, and end up being victorious in Roman society. Blessings to you, Makarios |
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