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Roman Empire and Christianity
Roman Empire and Christianity
[Narrator] As we've talked about in multiple videos Christianity is a religion that grew out of the fringes of the Roman Empire.
It starts as a Jewish sect in Judea and Galilee with the teachings of Jesus and his early ministry.
But it's important to keep in mind that at the time of Jesus's crucifixion around 30 C.E., he only had, at most we're talking about in the hundreds of followers.
But in other videos, we talk about his apostles who start spreading the faith not only to other Jews but also to non-Jews, to gentiles.
We talked about Emperor Nero and his famous purges of Christians in particular, you have the famous Roman Fire or The Fire of Rome in 64 C.E. that Nero blames on Christians and he uses this to do significant purge in Rome.
Many historians believe that the apostles Peter and Paul were killed during those purges.
This is a painting of Nero using Christians lighting them alive to punish them for that fire.
Now, other imperial acts that continue to have a significant effect on this very early Christian church.
We talked about the destroying of the second temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E., and that's under the reign of Vespasian.
And this of course is a very significant event for the Jewish people but it also has a significant effect on Christianity because remember Christianity was really centered at Jerusalem.
It was a sect of Christianity or it was, it got its start as a sect of Christianity but now, with the destruction of the temple the Jews were dispersed from Jerusalem and so were many of these early Christians.
And so the centers of Christianity became throughout the empire places like Antioch.
And you continue to have a discomfort with Christians especially as they became more and more in number and they started to have more and more power.
And here you have these people who refused to obey the Roman gods to do their rituals, to worship the Roman gods and remember, even, there was emperor worship here.
And the issue was more so than even the Jewish people who, to a certain degree, kept to themselves these Christians were missionaries.
They were spreading their faith to Roman citizens.
Families were being split apart where some decided to become Christians and no longer follow these Roman practices.
And so you have these various persecutions and these various purges and they get more and more significant as you go into the second.
And even to some degree in the third century as Christians become more and more prominent and more and more in number.
Remember, they have this missionary zeal and it really becomes a significant purge under the reign of Diocletian.
In previous videos, we talk about Diocletian.
He's the one that famously split the empire between east and west but he's also famous for his purge of the Christians.
The most extreme state-sponsored purges of Christians in the Roman Empire.
But what's interesting is right after or shortly after those purges we're talking a few decades here the next empire that would the next emperor who would have reign over the entire Roman Empire would be Constantine.
And at least relative to Christians he would be the opposite of Diocletian because as he's trying to consolidate his power in 312 C.E., you have the famous battle at the Milvian Bridge outside of, or entering into Rome.
And in this battle, Constantine he sees a vision of the Christian cross centered on the sun and he thinks that that is a sign that he should fight under the cross.
And he gets the symbols painted on his soldier's sealed and he's victorious.
This date, 312, Milvian Bridge The Battle at Milvian Bridge is viewed as the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity viewing it as his chosen faith.
In 313, the Roman emperor, or the empire issues the edict of Milan which officially makes Christianity OK.
It legalizes Christianity, which is a big deal because these folks have been persecuted all this time.
They haven't been worshiping the Roman gods.
Then in 325, Constantine goes even further and he convenes the council of Nicea where he brings the bishops from all of Christendom together to start having a more unified belief system.
They come up with a Nicene creed.
A lot of the debate is whether Jesus as son of God, should be considered equal to God or as God or a little less as being the son.
Maybe if he is the son maybe there was a time where there wasn't a son and there was just God but the Nicene Creed says no, they are one and the same these two things are equivalent.
And then Constantine, on his death bed famously gets baptized and becomes a Christian the first Christian emperor of this gigantic Roman Empire.
And so you can imagine you have more and more followers of Christianity but now, this is, so to speak, prime time.
The emperor of the Roman the emperor of the Roman Empire has converted to Christianity and it's a legalized religion.
And then that gets even more momentum when we get to the end of the fourth century.
Emperor Theodosius, who is Christian under him, it becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire the same empire that at one point Christianity was illegal and it was being persecuted now it was the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Theodosius, I mention him in other videos he was incidentally also the last emperor to rule over both Eastern and Western Roman Empires.
So you have this empire that starts off very anti-Christian actually in the beginning they don't really take much note of what's going on in Judea and Galilee but more and more, they start to persecute them.
But we go a few hundred years into this and it becomes a Christian empire.
[Narrator] As we've talked about in multiple videos Christianity is a religion that grew out of the fringes of the Roman Empire.발음듣기
It starts as a Jewish sect in Judea and Galilee with the teachings of Jesus and his early ministry.발음듣기
But it's important to keep in mind that at the time of Jesus's crucifixion around 30 C.E., he only had, at most we're talking about in the hundreds of followers.발음듣기
But in other videos, we talk about his apostles who start spreading the faith not only to other Jews but also to non-Jews, to gentiles.발음듣기
We talked about Emperor Nero and his famous purges of Christians in particular, you have the famous Roman Fire or The Fire of Rome in 64 C.E. that Nero blames on Christians and he uses this to do significant purge in Rome.발음듣기
This is a painting of Nero using Christians lighting them alive to punish them for that fire.발음듣기
Now, other imperial acts that continue to have a significant effect on this very early Christian church.발음듣기
We talked about the destroying of the second temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E., and that's under the reign of Vespasian.발음듣기
And this of course is a very significant event for the Jewish people but it also has a significant effect on Christianity because remember Christianity was really centered at Jerusalem.발음듣기
It was a sect of Christianity or it was, it got its start as a sect of Christianity but now, with the destruction of the temple the Jews were dispersed from Jerusalem and so were many of these early Christians.발음듣기
And you continue to have a discomfort with Christians especially as they became more and more in number and they started to have more and more power.발음듣기
And here you have these people who refused to obey the Roman gods to do their rituals, to worship the Roman gods and remember, even, there was emperor worship here.발음듣기
And the issue was more so than even the Jewish people who, to a certain degree, kept to themselves these Christians were missionaries.발음듣기
Families were being split apart where some decided to become Christians and no longer follow these Roman practices.발음듣기
And so you have these various persecutions and these various purges and they get more and more significant as you go into the second.발음듣기
And even to some degree in the third century as Christians become more and more prominent and more and more in number.발음듣기
Remember, they have this missionary zeal and it really becomes a significant purge under the reign of Diocletian.발음듣기
He's the one that famously split the empire between east and west but he's also famous for his purge of the Christians.발음듣기
But what's interesting is right after or shortly after those purges we're talking a few decades here the next empire that would the next emperor who would have reign over the entire Roman Empire would be Constantine.발음듣기
And at least relative to Christians he would be the opposite of Diocletian because as he's trying to consolidate his power in 312 C.E., you have the famous battle at the Milvian Bridge outside of, or entering into Rome.발음듣기
And in this battle, Constantine he sees a vision of the Christian cross centered on the sun and he thinks that that is a sign that he should fight under the cross.발음듣기
This date, 312, Milvian Bridge The Battle at Milvian Bridge is viewed as the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity viewing it as his chosen faith.발음듣기
In 313, the Roman emperor, or the empire issues the edict of Milan which officially makes Christianity OK.발음듣기
It legalizes Christianity, which is a big deal because these folks have been persecuted all this time.발음듣기
Then in 325, Constantine goes even further and he convenes the council of Nicea where he brings the bishops from all of Christendom together to start having a more unified belief system.발음듣기
A lot of the debate is whether Jesus as son of God, should be considered equal to God or as God or a little less as being the son.발음듣기
Maybe if he is the son maybe there was a time where there wasn't a son and there was just God but the Nicene Creed says no, they are one and the same these two things are equivalent.발음듣기
And then Constantine, on his death bed famously gets baptized and becomes a Christian the first Christian emperor of this gigantic Roman Empire.발음듣기
And so you can imagine you have more and more followers of Christianity but now, this is, so to speak, prime time.발음듣기
The emperor of the Roman the emperor of the Roman Empire has converted to Christianity and it's a legalized religion.발음듣기
Emperor Theodosius, who is Christian under him, it becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire the same empire that at one point Christianity was illegal and it was being persecuted now it was the official religion of the Roman Empire.발음듣기
Theodosius, I mention him in other videos he was incidentally also the last emperor to rule over both Eastern and Western Roman Empires.발음듣기
So you have this empire that starts off very anti-Christian actually in the beginning they don't really take much note of what's going on in Judea and Galilee but more and more, they start to persecute them.발음듣기
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