HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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Question
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Jesus sacrificed for his followers
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Christianity offered equal treatment and the idea of a personal relationship with God.
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Christianity did not believe in slavery
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Christian communities gave little help to the poor
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first Christians were all Jews, who constituted a Second Temple Jewish sect with an apocalyptic eschatology. Among other schools of thought, some Jews regarded Jesus as Lord and resurrected messiah, and the eternally existing Son of God, expecting the second coming of Jesus and the start of God’s Kingdom.
Detailed explanation-2: -Constantine is the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. He did so after witnessing the sight of a cross in the sky along with his entire army. However, his spiritual growth and eventual conversion did not happen at once with this one dramatic event.
Detailed explanation-3: -Christianization is the broader cultural term, and typically has involved efforts to systematically convert an entire continent or culture from existing beliefs to Christianity.
Detailed explanation-4: -People convert to a different religion for various reasons, including active conversion by free choice due to a change in beliefs, secondary conversion, deathbed conversion, conversion for convenience, marital conversion, and forced conversion.