Roman Empire and Christianity | World History | Khan Academy

Overview of the changing relationship between the Roman Empire and Christianity from the time of Jesus to the reign of Theodosius.

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[tyfly]

I’m doing online school I’m in 10th learning about the Roman Empire and this has helped me so much

[doesnotexist]

I’ve been an atheist for a long time and now I’m leaning more and more towards the Catholic Church as I read about this stuff. There’s something here. In 700 BC, the book of Isaiah predicts the coming of the Messiah and says that the Messiah will be righteous but we (meaning the Jews) will think him wicked. He will be punished for our inequities but we (the Jews) will think he was punished for his own inequities. It also says that while the Jews will shun him, he will become the light of the Gentiles (us non-Jews) and will bring the word of the one true God to the ends of the earth. That’s astonishing to me because that’s the story of Jesus. Even as a logically thinking atheist that gets to me. Sure, some have said that the story of Jesus was altered to fit this description from Isaiah. But this doesn’t account for Jesus being hated by the Jews and loved by the Gentiles. This doesn’t account for Jesus spreading the word of the God of Israel to the ends of the earth. And the more and more I read the early accounts of historians and the early Christians, the more and more it’s evident that the story of Jesus of Nazareth has been the same from the very start. Whether or not you believe that he performed miracles, was the Son of God, died for our sins and was resurrected, the earliest Christians DID believe that and that story has been completely unaltered. It just blows my mind.

[shotgunboi]

POV: video given to you by the teacher gets age restricted and you have to look it up yourself.

[vatsdimri]

It's interesting that Romans who crucified Jesus in the first place made christianity a state religion.

[NovaSMHeilmann]

Khan academy always have the history facts explained spot on 😍

[bonking]

I thought your only math my god this is the first time watching this🤯

[VOLightPortal]

The empire was devoid of love, compassion, and humanity. It was mostly based on violence, senseless bloodshed, excessive hedonism and materialism, pleasures of the flesh, and oppression. Leaving a deep empty feeling in the hearts of the many, this new religion filled a deep longing within people that the empire nor its existing religion could never fill. The empire was destined to fall. When people have had enough suffering they'll demand change. That was why Christianity succeeded so miraculously against all odds considering they were just a small fringe group among so many others at the time. When you are wounded so deeply already, people need a way to heal at the core of ones' being. Christianity offered that respite from the centuries of endless torture by the empire. The sadomasochistic orgy party torture show that was essentially the empire, finally came to an end.

[isacvalette]

This video was so good. Like you literally helped my understand the timeline so well.

[ARPalico]

And some people think that Jesus did not exist, I mean look at the historical relevance of the bible specifically the new testament and the Roman history, their timeline is somehow connected and it made such sense of what happened.

[blownaway]

On a side note, congratulations on a billion views!

[TehFlush]

This was fantastic, short, to the point, and no bias

[solemagus]

They Infused Yeshua and than Used Julius Caesar .. that’s why there are similarities in the story

[theselector]

What doesn't make sense is why Christians were persecuted so much and Jews weren't.
The Gospel would've mentioned things like: "Turn the other cheek" and "Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's...." Jesus's gospel was about love and not being attached to worldly things. Whereas The Jewish perpective was far more antagonistic towards Rome and its pagan tradition. Jews were forbidden by their religion to worship idols or other Gods and had a lot of "bad blood" with Rome b'cos of the war in Judea.

[yguflvn]

Council of Nicea was for dealing with the Arians, earliest beliefs then was the same like now, earliest christology was also the highest christology.Council of nicea was Only to deal with arians

[almasakic]

I'm about to start reading the City of God by Augustine and this really helped me. thank you

[emilyoakes]

yo i reference stuff I learned from khan academy in essays more often than I reference textbook material

[shawnrossi]

For those confused, just act like Jesus the best you can, you'll do alright.

[ryanweaver]

Rome and Pilate and blames I’m not a religious scholar, but faith and movements have a long history.

[timothykozlowski]

Constantine the Great is one of the most important people in Christianity.

[soliatolamide]

Thanks for this. Please can you explain to me the role of Christianity in the Roman Empire?