Early Christianity: A Very Brief Account

[@EvilSmonker]

Absolutely love your channel, and I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge. Some of the best-told history on the platform is found on your channel, without any imposed opinions or narratives. You truly have a way of describing events in an impartial voice, which I believe is one of the most important traits of anyone who fancies themselves a historian. Thanks again for the wealth of content.

[@IotaEtaSigma]

I must say that like @NocterOul I enjoy most of your videos. You have a very calm, articulate way of speaking. Another thing I really enjoy is that you tend to focus on Late Antiquity, which is one of the most interesting themes ever, which normally historians tend to avoid. Another thing I also like about your videos is that often you are critical of many generalist views about Late Antiquity, not following the baseless norm of far-sweeping ideas about what a "barbarian" was and how many "barbarian" kingdoms co-opted the "Roman" way of exerting power, mint coin and collect taxes. However, in this video, I think your personal bias got in the way of being objective. You talked about the views of the so-called "heretics", but you were very dismissive about the views of what you call the "proto-orthodoxal" view of the Church. Another thing you get wrong is that is absolutely baseless that Christians would target rich people or its spread was driven by rich people. Most converts were poor people, often slaves, and women. If there were rich converts, they were often women too. That's actually still the case. If you go to any Christian church right now, you will see the majority of people there are women and children. Please continue your wonderful videos, but try to be more impartial next time and be more critical about any preconceptions you may have against a particular belief.

[@christopheb9221]

i think youre the one with the biases

[@alanpennie8013]

You might have mentioned the regular holding of episcopal councils as a key means of keeping the proto - orthodox church united.

[@joeshmoe8345]

Great video thanks

[@clarkeapplegate962]

There is a period when followers of Jesus were Jews flowing the Messiah or the Son of God. When did the Greek Christ (the anointed one) become used generally?

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

I assume that it occurred when the Gospel accounts started to be written in Greek around 60-70 CE. I think that Christ is the Greek translation of Messiah.

[@mzeewatk846]

Clarke Applegate ...don't trust me on this, but I believe it was shortly following the decision to no longer require adult circumcision for new converts. :)

[@moodist1er]

There's no evidence for any of that.

[@weilandiv8310]

A minister, doctor of Theology once told me that during the time of Christ in the Holy Land there were several other "messiahs" plying their wares, sermonizing...etc and just aren't as well documented or remembered.

[@gregorybezanson]

Christians believed in a Creator who created Spirit and Matter as good. Gnosticism was a belief in a God who created the physical world through an intermediate power which created matter below the spiritual world that was corruptible .

[@gregorybezanson]

Christianity is God and Christ being equally good and also God. God created spirit and matter perfectly. All creation was good, matter and spirit. For the Gnostics, matter was to be overcome by the spirit. They therefore rejected the natural world and that is why God being involved with the natural world is taken as figurative only. So Christianity is about reclaiming the natural world and redeeming human beings.

[@theLetterDoubleYou]

Fun fact: this is Thersites favorite field of history.

[@strive4252]

I don't think you realize tht the Catholic Church is the original Church founded by Jesus Christ. That's how Apostolic Succession works.

[@hectorosbert]

I'm gonna with the Copts as the more 'authentic' ones.

[@strive4252]

@@hectorosbert You mean the Coptic Church that was in Union with the Apostolic Catholic Church?

[@davidhall2197]

Here it comes, the arrogance of a Catholic. One who wouldn't know the difference between a petra and a petros.

[@strive4252]

@@davidhall2197 Here it comes, the arrogance of a Protestant who has no idea where the canon of scripture and the New Testament comes from.

[@davidhall2197]

@@strive4252 Go work your way to heaven, chief. It's not a matter of where they come from, it's a matter of interpreting them right. Like all those Bible verses about Mary be born without sin, being a perpetual virgin, being "Assumed" into heaven and crowned Queen of Heaven. I've been through the Bible backwards and forwards and haven't seen anything about that yet. Please enlighten me to their biblical existence.