Christianty

Terry Arthur

Mile McVay

World Religion

11/31/05

The History and the Further of Christianity

I am originally from Trinidad and Tobago that is located in the southern part of the Caribbean. Christianity is a way of life me back home because it's the most popular religion in my country. Christianity was first brought to our country by the England, who would colonize our country. During these times our country was inhabited by native Indians tribes. They were the Caribs and the Arawarks. When we were colonies by the English, they killed most of these Indian tribes who lived on the island.

Judaism had a great influence on Christianity because most of Christianity teaching came from Judaism. Judaism and Christianity have the same thing in common for instance, they both believe in a supreme being called GOD and the basically have the same teaching of him and his son JESUS. Also they believe that God send him only begotten son to save the world from sin, his named was JESUS. JESUS was born in Jerusalem in c.4 b.c.e his parents were Mary and Josephs and he die in c.29c. In the early part of Jesus' life he was referred to as the messiah. The word "Messiah" means "anointed" and is referred to the ceremony of anointing a new king with olive oil. Jesus was known performing merciless healing to people on the street. After Jesus death his disciples wanted to continue his teaching so they created the books of acts. The Apostle Saint who wrote it was Peter and Paul. They wrote the books to spread the word and teaching of God all over the world.

Today what we know about Jesus and Christianity is in the new testaments. The new testaments which are know as the Christianity core is use in religion ceremony all over the world. The new testaments consists of four parts, the Gospel which describe the life and teaching of Jesus, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles which the evangelist were carry out by Jesus disciples Matthew, mark, Luke, and john. The act of the apostles tells of the instant spread of Christianity. The epistles are the letters to early Christianity, primarily written by Paul. In the time of 1500s the Christianity churches split into different parts because some bishop did not want to follow the same practices of the other churches, so they split and two branches of churches were form. They were the western churches and the eastern churches, they then form other churches. In today's society Christianity is a major religion in the world today. Christianity today has over 2 billion followers in the world today. Christianity began in the 1st century and steam from Judaism. Christianity has branches off into three different directions. They are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Protestant Church. This was all because of the separation of the pope in the 1st century so the broke off into three branches. The history of Christianity can also be trace back to the early days of the Roman Empire. The start of Christianity in the Roman Empire was started by the determination of a great man by the name of Constantine. Constantine was born to Constantius Chlorus by his first, informal marriage, called concubinatus, with Helena, a woman of inferior birth. Constantine grew up under the influence of his father's ideas. Constantine's father was the supreme ruler of the Roman Empire because of his father's influence Constantine was next in line to receive his father's throne. The turning point for Constantine was when he received a vision that he should conquer in the sign of Christ and on one of Constantine's battles he made his worriers carried Christ's monogram on their shield. This ended in a great win for Constantine over one of his archenemies which were Maxentius. Constantine stayed in Rome but a short time after his victory. Proceeding to Milan were he met his colleague the Augustus Licinius, married his sister to him, secured his protection for the Christian in the East, and promised him support against Maximinus Daia; After moved Constantine decided to move his government to a safer place form invasion from other country. In 330AD Constantine move his empire to a city called Byzantium in modern Turkey. After moving to Byzantium Constantine soon renamed the city "Constantinople," which means "city of Constantine." In addition to renaming the city he also gave a great deal of wealth to the Christians, especially for building churches; he excused Christian priests from serving as city councilmen; Many Roman laws were revised to reflect Christian standards; Sunday was declared a holiday as "the day of the sun" so that the day would be observed by pagans as well as Christians.

Constantine cans rightfully claim the title Great because he turned the history of the world into a new course and made Christianity into what it's today. Christianity evolved into another important religion which is the Protestant. The Protestant reformation started with the man by the name of Martin Luther. Martin Luther enters the religious life as a young man because of a vow he made during a lightning storm. Martin Luther's father did not want him to become a priest; he wanted him to become a lawyer. He disobeys his father's words and went ahead and was ordained as a priest. But after ordination as a priest he did not get the inner peace that he was expecting to get. As Luther became more