Beginning of Christianity???
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christian religion follow god \nbuddism follow stons and pagans
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It is a very good start! just keep at it! You may have many Christo-pagans interested in your faith. Best of luck and follow your heart.\nBlessed Be
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The first Christians was Messianic Jews, a very small jewish cult.  it wasn't until several decades later that the messianic jews started to call themselves Christian.\nMessianic Jews still exist today and they worship Christ but follow the old Jewish ways.  Christians don't follow the old jewish ways!
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Yes, there was a year 1 AD, though at the time they did not call it that.  Around the 6th century, it was decided by the Church that dates should start from what they estimated to be the birth of Christ-but of course that was around 500 years after the fact, so in the year 1 AD (500 years before) they didn't have any idea that someday that year would be considered 1 AD.  That is far from the start of time, though, since it was only 2006 years ago.  Regardless of whether you believe in God and creation, or in the big bang, both believe there was a point at which time started.  For the big bang, its estimated anywhere from 14 billion years (classic view) or 20+ billion years (newer hypothesis based upon the inflation model). For conservative Christians, the date is something like 6000 years, and for other religions it is different as well.
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You mean the frist building? The church was "instituted" when Jesus gave it to the apostles. But im not sure when the first actual building was erected. Constantine might have built the first one. The first Catholic "church" would have jsut been in someones house or in a cave, before Constantine legalized the religion
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Christianity started the day Adam and Eve fell from grace - it has only recently been fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ, God's Son, fully God, fully human, Savior.
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Well, what a special story. You set Christianity back at least 50  years.  I can picture the Christians rolling their eyes back now. LMAO.
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Christianity started first and was wiped out by Christiandom (Catholicism) . . . which forced all Christians to follow them . . . or face torture and death.\n\nExample . . . the inquistion . . . the crusades.
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I have been saying, for years, that modern Christians follow Paul, not Jesus. The Christian New Testament is in large degree a Paulist document. The books that were accepted as worthy of inclusion were chosen by religious leaders long after the time of Christ at the request of Constantine. It was his desire to make Christianism the Roman state religion. It needed to be something that was very structured so as to give control over the masses. Paul's writtings afforded them the opportunity to do that, which is why they were picked. Anyone interested in a good look at the REAL Jesus and what HE taught, as opposed to Paul, should read the Lost Gospel of Thomas. Its easy to find, just do a web search. Funny thing about that book ... Jesus was married, spoke in ways that are foriegn to many now days, and comes off looking much more like the Jesus presented by Muslim scholars and also modern Gnostics. Its also dated, as a translation of an earlier work, to 60 C.E. which makes it older than 60 C.E. and very close to the life of Jesus. Its also older than most of Paul's works. And that married part? Makes it a little hard to let that pass as a fact and still enjoin celebacy on priests, monks, and nuns by way of example, don't you think? There goes the control over a cheap source of church labor. Another funny thing that lends credence to the Gospel of Thomas is that almost every quote in it can be found in the current Christian New Testament. But the OTHERS, the ones that are left out, make all the difference in the world. Paul was who and what he was. That's between Paul and Deity. But I don't think he was an Apostle, and I don't think he spoke for true Christianity. But, hey, Thomas did a good job. ;-) ~ Peace and Blessings ~ (Just an added thought ... Luke wrote the Book of Acts.He wasn't an Apostle, he probably never knew Jesus, he came on the scene latter. He worked and traveled with Paul. Realistically, where do you think he got his information. Who gave Luke input?)
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Christianity is a religion.
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What is "the church" to which are you referring? The one true church described in the Bible (which BTW is NOT the catholic church, it wasn't around until about 600 AD) would condemn such based on 1 Corinthians 6:9-10.
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There were many religions before Christianity. Judaism is one, just the Old Testament. Other religions have multiple Gods and Goddesses. Some have none. Christianity is not the only and not the first and maybe not even the right religion.
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We don't need to speculate on the history of religion in general, or Christianity in particular.  We have a pretty good grasp of how these ideas evolved over time already.\n\nReligion didn't start out as a way to explain the world, that came later, religion started out as a way of honoring the sun, which was viewed as the bringer of life.  It evolved from there to what we see today.\n\nThe ideas attributed to Jesus were not original even in Hellenistic Judaism.
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It is all made up by the church.  Alot of Christianity was made up at the Nicea Council.........300 years after Jesus lived.  The idea of the trinity was not heard of till then, also.
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Well, that depends on who you ask and what qualifies as "start." :)\n\nJesus told Peter he was to be "the rock" on which he (Jesus) would build his church. Catholics take that to refer to Peter as the head of the church - then they see Peter as the Bishop of the Church in Rome, which would make him the first Pope. They see each successive Bishop of Rome as being Pope, as well, in a line of succession from Peter. \n\nSo, you could point to Pentecost (when the Holy Spirit comes down on the Apostles in Acts), as the start of the church itself. Or, you could see it, in a way, as being when Jesus named Peter.\n\nAs to the history, we know Bishops of Rome were pretty powerful at least as early as the 2nd century, but we really don't have evidence of them being considered the universal head of the church (ie-the Pope) until the 3rd or 4th century.
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That is true.\n\nTo j_d_barrow:\n\nWhat the hell are you going on about? Adam and Eve were also taken from an earlier Pagan religion. "The first people on earth" HA HA HA!\n\nWho lived in Nod where Cain got his wife? \n\nYou Christians really have to start asking yourself some questions. Your whole religion is fake, even your Messiah cannot be proven to exist and is very similar to the Pagan God (Osiris), by the way the Caesar that lived the same time as "Jesus" have records, Jesus has none...\n\nWhat about the Trinity...Pagan's and Hindus have a Trinity that Predates Christianity?\n\nBut, you guys have the only "right path", hey?
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This is what Dan Brown would have you believe, but there is no historical evidence to back him up.   In particular,\n\n1) The Council of Nicea (AD 325) did not even discuss the question of "canon" (that is, what belongs in the Bible)!!   In any case, well before this time there was widespread agreement on which books were accepted  (evidence going back to the early 2nd century).   There is NO evidence of authorities "inserting" or "removing" stuff.\n\n2) Not only did Constantine not foist his own view of the deity of Christ on others,  ALL those at this Council (representing the viewpoing of churches throughout the Roman world) agreed that Jesus was divine!   The only question was precisely how that idea was to be UNDERSTOOD.   \n\nAlso, contrary to various insinuations, the vote was not even close!   The Council of Nicea was almost unanimous in its final statement (two out of over three hundred disagreed... though again, they did NOT disagree that Jesus was divine!)