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Christians and Romans

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Sign of the Fish in the Sand in Early Christianity

A lot of historical movies show very early Christians as a highly persecuted group meeting in secrets and in the catatombs for like fear of imprisonment or violent retribution from the empire. Christianity was not declared an illegal religion in the early centuries. They were not martyred by the thousands. There was opposition, but there was never any official opposition for over 200 years to be a Christian.

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