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Beginnings of Beginnings of Christianity Christianity

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Brief view about how Christianity became the official religion of Ancient Rome, one of the most powerful ancient empires from Europe

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Beginnings of ChristianityBeginnings of Christianity

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Why Romans didn’t like Why Romans didn’t like Christianity?Christianity?

Polytheistic Religion: they worship many gods

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….including the emperor !

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If you don’t respect Roman gods, harm could come to the empire, so…

Roman law punished those who refused to worship their gods.

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Jesus and his teachingsJesus and his teachings

Jesus taugh belief in one god and in Ten Commandments.

…but soon his teachings were different from Jewish

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God is loving and would forgive those who were sorry for their sins

He encourage people to love one another: enemies shall be forgiven and loved.

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To make his ideas clearer, Jesus often used parables

Do you remember theParable of the prodigal son?

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According to Judaism, a messiah will come to bring world peace

Some people became convinced that Jesus was the messiah

So… what did Roman leaders think about it?

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They thought Jesus might take over the empire and set up his own kingdom

Pontius Pilate ordered that Jesus be put to death by

crucifixion.

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Jesus’ Teachings Spreads

His teachings soon were carried through the Roman roads

Apostles were the first people to spread Jesus’ words

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Rome and the new religion

The Romans allowed people to have other religions beliefs, if they also worshipped the Roman gods

So… What happened

with Christians?

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Romans began to persecute the Christians

Many Christians became martyrs

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Constantine Accepts Christianity

Why the Roman Empire was growing weaker?

Government increased taxes = citizens got upset

Political chaos= Roman generals fought to rule the empire

Emperors faced invaders

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“In Hoc Signo Vinces”

In this sign, you will conquer

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Constantine won the battle. He didn’t thank the Roman gods

A.D. 313: Edict of Milan made Christianity an accepted religion

LATER,CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE OFFICIAL

RELIGION FOR THE ROMAN EMPIRE