Alright, well, christians claim Jesus is the saviour, he was born of a virgin mother, sacraficed himself for our sins, and ascended to heaven to sit beside god, among other parts of his story.

So what about Mormons? They say that Jesus returned to earth and came to North America. They believe it's fact, christians believe it's a fairy tale, athiests think they're both wrong, and Muslim's really could care less, they're too wrapped in praying 5 times a day. (If they're real muslims).

But what happened to spread the story of Jesus? Jesus died, and was ressurected etc... but what happened then? How did Christianity spread? How did people find out about this? I'm only asking questions for now, I may have some videos for later, but I'm really just wondering how it is christianity became so popular, and athiests who used to be christian, please don't answer, leave this to the believers.

the apostles did a great deal.
i mean think about it, a simple rumor can spread through an entire school, so wouldnt you think a religion taught by the man who died for our sins would spread through the world?
ps. im very bad at debating things in forums so beware :(

so no specifics? I'm not doubting the power of word of mouth, but with respect to the times, people didn't get around as easily as they do now, so the school thing just doesn't work, plus it's not as though anyone outside that grade even finds out.

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me something about how it spread, who in specific did it, how they did it, where they travelled, you know "facts" and I say that with quotations because you'll be getting it from the bible... but I want to know where christianity spread to and how, do you know?

Let's see if I still remember some things of history class:
When Jesus was still alive, christianity was already popular with(by, in, don't know which word to use) the poor and with women. Other religions excluded poor and sick people and women. Jesus spoke to the people a lot. The Roman ceasar who ruled then was afraid of christianity. The main reason is that the Christians wouldn't honour the ceasar. More and more people became Christian because the majority of the people were poor and the Christians helped them with money and stuff. Emperor Constantine made it official religion of the land because that would help him get support from the people. It is said that it has something to do with a dream and a victory but it is most likely political. Through wars and sieges Christianity spread from Greece to Perzia and Northern Europe. From then missionaries were send to concurred (?) grounds to speak and preach Christianity. Christianity was then spread in the entire Western world. It spread to other continents through the trade federations like the VOC. I believe that's how it went. I hope this answers your question.

I blame Rome for f*cking up Europe with Christianity :(

I liked Thor, Odin and all those awesome gods. Not the f*cking gay sand nigra god! :(

Can't you just google the answer anyway?

You don't have to say that Christianity sucks in every thread. He wants an answer, why not giving him an answer?

You don't have to say that Christianity sucks in every thread. He wants an answer, why not giving him an answer?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070506010835AAFXK2X&show=7

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Peter established the Catholic Church as the first pope after Jesus died. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (yes, the four gospel writers) traveled great distances and spread Catholicism to many far off lands. John was known for his numerous treks in Asia. Paul led the established Catholic parishes in different cities (Rome, Corinth, Ephesis, etc.), giving them direct guidance as to how to run their parish according to God's will (read all his letters in the New Testament, following the gospel of John.) Just a sampler, there's a whole lot more than what I know.

well, right now i am rushed and brain dead, but i will try my best to say what i know about it.

for one, i haven't heard much proof about peter being the first pope and starting the roman catholic church...

Let's see if I still remember some things of history class:
When Jesus was still alive, christianity was already popular with(by, in, don't know which word to use) the poor and with women. Other religions excluded poor and sick people and women. Jesus spoke to the people a lot. The Roman ceasar who ruled then was afraid of christianity. The main reason is that the Christians wouldn't honour the ceasar. More and more people became Christian because the majority of the people were poor and the Christians helped them with money and stuff. Emperor Constantine made it official religion of the land because that would help him get support from the people. It is said that it has something to do with a dream and a victory but it is most likely political. Through wars and sieges Christianity spread from Greece to Perzia and Northern Europe. From then missionaries were send to concurred (?) grounds to speak and preach Christianity. Christianity was then spread in the entire Western world. It spread to other continents through the trade federations like the VOC. I believe that's how it went. I hope this answers your question.

yea, that's pretty much all correct....
but its not that the roman ceasar was afraid of Christians because of rebellious followers against the ceasar, it was because a lot of the people feared that Christ would be crowned as king, because he was very popular--in his own crowd. but anyway, Christ was obviously unpopular to a lot of other people.... high up religious or political people. anyway, they got their way and eventually had him crucified. with him out of the way, though, i don't really know why they needed to kill off the followers, but it seems that persecution followed for whatever reason.. i think a lot of the popularity came from the martyrdom... i think there was some ancient dead guy that said the blood of the saints was what watered the church or something.
but yea, eventually constantine came along and had a vision of a cross and words that said "in this sign conquer." then he got baptized and had christianity legalized *cough, politics, cough*. then it got popular and the church got watered down and got turned back into a bunch of rules and traditions (which is exactly what Christ came to see people free from). anyway. it got popular like that.

this is a little off topic, but it is interesting to note how when the crusades came along it was really a great thing....
the muslims and catholics really balanced each other out and prevented each other from world domination pretty well, lawlz.

I blame Rome for f*cking up Europe with Christianity :(

I liked Thor, Odin and all those awesome gods. Not the f*cking gay sand nigra god! :(

Can't you just google the answer anyway?

I'm doing an experiment, shh, I asked athiests to not give me answers.

Also Gnar, can you point my towards anything that describes the travels of the writers of the four gospels? And around when did they do this? What years?

To everyone describing things, if you could try to include dates or years (and preferrably some sort of "evidence" backing it up, bible is allowed for this, not trying to offend anyone by using quotations, it's just that for the purpose of this thread only, I will accept the bible as evidence.

*ponders what skateyasha is planning*

Don't ponder too much, I'd rather people explain what it is that founds their beliefs. Continue ^_^

Paul, Peter, many of the other early Christians, but most of all the power of the Holy Ghost moving. The same way through history that created mass revival, people coming to Jesus by the thousands or hundreds of thousands. Not by the power of man, but by the power of God working through men.

Paul, Peter, many of the other early Christians, but most of all the power of the Holy Ghost moving. The same way through history that created mass revival, people coming to Jesus by the thousands or hundreds of thousands. Not by the power of man, but by the power of God working through men.

Sorry, not really informed very well on this stuff, kind of why I'm doing this, what way created mass revival in history? I don't really get it...

Sorry, not really informed very well on this stuff, kind of why I'm doing this, what way created mass revival in history? I don't really get it...

The Holy Ghost. Read in the book of Acts a bit and see what it says about the Spirit/Holy Ghost/etc. When we just speak without God intervening, it does nothing, but when God gets in and starts intervening, it's crazy. In Acts ch. 2 God spoke through Peter after the Holy Ghost had fallen upon them and they began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance, and had such power in his words that 3000 people came to Jesus! Not Peter's words though, but the words given to Peter by God through the Holy Ghost. When people start to get up and walk after being crippled for life after healing was prayed for in the name of Jesus; when demon spirits are cast out of people in the name of Jesus and they flee; when people who legally are considered deaf or blind begin to see and hear after the name of Jesus was spoken over their need. It's when people start to seek God, as in 2 Chronicles 7:14, and become hungry to win a lost world, that God will use them to do thing to spread his name and prove to the world that Jesus is Lord! It's still happening around the world today. Trust me. Look into miracles after the name of Jesus was invoked. I promise you you'll be surprised (and many provide even medical records to back it up!)

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf

^ When you see the Christianity bubble, take note of the countries it's invading and the wars that took place.

I heard a bit about the Apostle Paul, or Sol of Tarsis, can anyone tell me about him? Apprently he saw Jesus or something.

^ The Apostle Paul knows Jesus in real life just as much as I do

White men went all around the world claiming territory that already belonged to other people, and they brought disease and christianity with them. That's really how it was spread