Since Christianity started in the Middle East, how did the Romans became Christians?

Question

Since Christianity started in the Middle East, how did the Romans became Christians?

Answer 1

The influence of the Roman Empire in the early days of Christianity extended well beyond what we now call the Middle East. Christianity, however, was not adopted by the Roman Empire until the Edict of Milan 313 A.D. (which proclaimed religious toleration throughout the Empire) during the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I, who himself probably became a Christian about that time.

Answer 2

Because they saw it and experience it.

GOD BLESS!    AMEN!     SHALOM!

Answer 3

Constantine demanded it.

Answer 4

Christians took the message of salvation to Rome as they spread throughout the Roman Empire.

Romans became Christians just as did the barbarians and the Jew, by believing in Christ for salvation.

Answer 5

To the best of my knowledge it was a political move. The Emperor saw that Christianly was growing and powerful so he converted to maintain his influence and power. Since the EMperor was Christian, so were all of the Romans (you didn't get to chose.) It might have been constantine but don't quote me.

The Roman Empire stretched into the Middle East.

Mary and Joseph had to go back to Bethlehem to be accounted for by the Romans.

Answer 6

Missionaries.

Answer 7

You should check history and if you did you would find that Rome owned the middle east lot stock and barrel

Answer 8

when Pope Julius the 1st declared jesus birthday to be celebrated on December 25 in the year 350. ( which was a roman pagan holiday first) some of the romans started turning to christianity. Or atleast thats the way i understood it.

Answer 9

The trade route from the East brought the taste of peaceful philosophy based in the valley of Himalayas called heavenly Kashmir.

This was emphasized by Jesus Christ.

Then St. Paul and Peter explained further to Europe.

Later supported by 'Crusades' and  'Mercenaries'.

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a Day'

Vatican City-State is also well walled as Violence still is the rule of the day. Poor Jesus wasted his life on the Cross being practically non-violent.

Answer 10

The Roman Empire was collapsing, The Emperor Constantine thought that embracing Christianity would save what was left, and he was right.

Answer 11

The Roman empire was vast, and covered much of the middle-east.

Answer 12

Judeah was under Roman rule when the events of the NT supposedly took place.  Hence all the Romans running around.  Once the Christian movement spread beyond the Jewish population, it reached gentiles too.  

It just grew, and the Roman Empire being vast, it had the opportunity to reach lots of people. And then when your Emperor converts...well. Made in the shade.

Answer 13

Constantine.

Paul was supposedly born and raised in the city of Tarsus, a region in SE Asia-Minor (now called Turkey) where Mithras was well known. Biblical scholars are now saying that Paul, the alleged author of 13 out of the 27 (maybe more) books of the New Testament, may have been influenced in his writings by this strong religion of Mithraism. We can see a profound kinship between Mithraism and Christianity.

In-as-much as Mithraism was so popular in Rome, it is no wonder why the pagan Emperor Constantine, who believed in the sun god, Mithras, designated a certain day of the week to him, Sunday, which means, “the day of the sun.”

The original "Christian" faith became a mix of pagan, Mithramic, Jeudeo/Christian teaching. This lead to the confusing mix of theology that we have today within the "Christian" community. This apostacy from the original simple and plain teachings of Christ was accelerated by the persecutions and killings of any who tried to support the "old" ways. Maybe this solves the mystery of the “ungodly” marriage between Mithraism and the cult of Jesus. As it turns out, it was all for political convenience! But, Christians think they are better than that today. In short: The "Christianity" they have today has almost no relationship, in doctrine or in way of life, to the "the original teachings of Jesus."

In my mind, there are two Jesus' teachings. Jesus the Jew and Jesus the Gentile, which by the way is really Paul's Jesus. And guess which one Christians follow? The ex-pagan Constantine liked Paul's Jesus over Jesus the Jew. Jesus and all the others upon whom this character is predicated are personifications of the sun, and the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a mythological formula revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens.

For instance, many of the world's crucified "god-men" have their traditional birthday on December 25. This is because the ancients recognized that (from an earth-centric perspective) the sun makes an annual descent southward until December 21 or 22, the winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again.

During this time, the ancients declared that "God's sun" had "died" for three days and was "born again" on December 25. The ancients realized quite abundantly that they needed the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its direction. Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the "sun of God's" birthday on December 25th.

http://jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschris...

      

Answer 14

By force.

Christians travelled to Rome, gained too much respect, and shoved it down their throats.

Answer 15

The same way that the Christian faith advances today.

There were Romans in Jerusalem, who spoke to believers (some of them Apostles in those days).  Some of those Romans believed in Christ.  When they returned to Rome they told others about Christ and those others believed too.  And then they told others... and so on.  

Answer 16

Primitive minds, beliefs of false gods spread through the gullible.