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The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Crucifixion of the Church

The persecutions also led to crises within the church too, that turned out to be very important. What do you do with people who have committed this ultimate sin of apostasy, and now want to come back? And so i'll talk later about how the church dealt with that and how important that would be. So how did christianity finally come to be accepted? Well, the critical turning point figure was, of course, constantine,. Who was a general and then was able to seize power with the support of his troops and become emperor. He saw the strength of the christian group. At the time he came to the imperial throne, they were probably up to about ten

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