(November 13, 2014 at 1:37 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 13, 2014 at 1:32 pm)Godschild Wrote: What the Roman empire was crumbling in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. It's amazing how nonbelievers make up so much junk to defend their position.
GC
Care to look up Roman history? I mean the times when christianity first gained some influence, which would be 325 with the council of Nicea?
And it wasn't till the Edict of Thessalonica in AD 380, when Emperor Theodosius I made it the Empire's sole authorized religion.
So, care to come again after having a good hard look at what Rome was actually like in these days?
The OP was wanting to know how it got started so fast and continued to grow, so we must start at the beginning 1st century AD. There was 300 years of Christian growth before the empire started to falter.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
