CHURCH HISTORY

Church History

Church History

Introduction

The Church argues that its source is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in roughly 30 A.D. The Church declares itself to be the Church that Jesus Christ past away for, the Church that was established and constructed by the Apostles. Is that the factual source of the Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will disclose that the Church does not have its source in the teachings of Jesus, or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, adoration / adoration of Mary (or the immaculate beginning of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in Heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the place of adoration functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a cleric, purgatory, indulgences, or the identical administration of place of adoration custom and Scripture. So, if the source of the Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as noted in the New Testament, what is the factual source of the Church?

 

Analysis

For the first 280 years of Christian annals, Christianity was ostracized by the domain, and Christians were awfully persecuted. This altered after the “conversion” of the Emperor Constantine. Constantine “legalized” Christianity at the Edict of Milan in A.D. 313. Later, in A.D. 325, Constantine called simultaneously the Council of Nicea, in an try to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a belief that could join the Empire, which at that time was starting to fragment and divide. While this may have appeared to be a affirmative development for the Christian place of adoration, the outcomes were any thing but positive. Just as Constantine denied to completely adopt the Christian belief, but proceeded numerous of his pagan convictions and practices, so the Christian place of adoration that Constantine encouraged was a blend of factual Christianity and paganism.

Constantine discovered that with the Empire being so huge, expansive, and varied - not every individual would acquiesce to forsake their devout convictions and rather than adopt Christianity. So, Constantine permitted, and even encouraged, the “Christianization” of pagan beliefs. Completely pagan and utterly unbiblical convictions were granted new “Christian” identities. Some clear demonstrations of this are as follows:

The Cult of Isis, an Egyptian mother-goddess belief, was soaked up into Christianity by restoring Isis with Mary. Many of the names that were utilised for Isis, for example “Queen of Heaven,” “Mother of God,” and “theotokos” (God-bearer) were adhered to Mary. Mary was granted an exalted function in the Christian belief, far after what the Bible ascribes to her, in alignment to appeal Isis worshippers to a belief they would not else embrace. Many temples to Isis were, in detail, altered into temples dedicated to Mary. The first clear signs of Mariology happen in the writings of Origen, who dwelled in Alexandria, Egypt, which occurred to be the focal issue of Isis ...