My God My Savior

A basic idea about the history of Christianity

The history of Christianity started way back when Jesus of Nazareth, started preaching about a religion not yet born. Jesus Christ was God Incarnate. When he died, he was resurrected by God and then he ascended to heaven. It was Peter, his successor, who was responsible for founding the Roman Catholic Church. It was centuries later that Martin Luther started the Reformation, which was the inception of a number of Christian religions today.

Though in the initial times, Christianity was not much more than a small movement, it grew when his followers started preaching and spreading the tenets of it. It was acknowledged by the followers that Jesus Christ was the Messiah and the Son of God.

The Gospels came to be written probably around 60 to 90 C.E., some time after Jesus died on the cross around 30 C.E. After this, a lot of battles and wars have been fought over the religion and much blood has been shed. In the year 1948, the World Council of Churches was formed. The Catholic Church too started a process of modernization which continued up to the 1960’s.

Christianity is the most popular belief system in the whole world and has the majority number of followers. There are lots of believers who follow the tenets of the religion without going to Church and many more who do. There are also many denominations and sects of the religion. But overall, Christianity as a religion continues to prosper.