Christianity And Its Threat To The Roman Empire

Christianity and its threat to the Roman empire

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Christianity and its threat to the Roman Empire

Introduction

The religion was considered as one of the essential factors of the Roman Empire. Without religion, for anyone living in the city of Rome, life becomes highly difficult for the people over there. For the authority of Rome, everything should be adapted from their standard rules and regulations for the consideration of any matter for which they are unable to find out the solution.

All the people in the Rome used to take the help from the Roman orthodox religion as it as the only source of guidance for them and the person who does not believe in the rules and regulation given to them by their religion was not among themselves. During that tenure, there was a religious rebellion starting in the city of Rome, and the people were unable to judge the entire significance of this rebellion. Initially, it was considered as a rebellion movement as for the deviation from their God was considered as a heinous crime. The effects of this crime can have adverse effects on the people as well as the community of the person. With time, the Romans authority recognized that there was an existence of new religion in the world, which was taking place all across the globe and was pushing people to move towards the guidance of this religion.

Discussion

With the development of the new religion in the world and the widespread of this religion, the red alarm ringed for the Roman Empire. The reason for this alarm was that the integrity of their religion was under a great attack. Their beliefs of their Roman Gods were the challenge, and there was no way out for them but to take this as a severe threat as the people ere [preaching about the existence of a single God in this world (Dunn, 2018).

This threat took the extreme when the people started moving towards it with the proper logical reasons. Christians did not have any traditional stories or traditional approach but whatever they claimed was in the authentic script of Hebrew and directly linked with the presence of Christ with them. This was the other reason that they were not forcing anyone but assuring them the logical reasons and giving the right deeds to deal with them accordingly as it can provide an explicit rejection to all the other religions dealings consequently (Davies, 1964).

At that, the time the rebellion nature was also noticed when the people who started following the Christian practices refused the people to take part in the religious cult and methods of the Roman emperors and their teachings. They started negated their teachings like whenever you do good let the others know, but they denied it with the proper functional teachings, and proper reasoning's is that they can have the correct and authentic knowledge. All these factors were no less than a threat to the people of Rome (Walton, 2017).

Conclusion

With this, it can conclude that the authentic teachings of Christianity were no less than a threat to the Roman people as they were negating all their practices and that too on the logical reasons. Moreover, various people started to leave their military as well because of the reason for worshiping their emperor; it was against the laws, and regulations of the people who began to practice Christianity. All these issues created anarchy and chaos in the city of Rome and gave them a real shock for which their religion’s integrity was in danger against the religion of Christianity.

References

Walton, S. (2017). The state they were in Luke's view of the Roman empire. Reading Acts in the Discourses of Masculinity and Politics, 559, 75.

Dunn, J. D. (2018). Romans 1-8, Volume 38A. Zondervan.

Davies, W. D. (1964). The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount. CUP Archive.