The Assyrians began to convert to Christianity from Ashurism during the period between the early 1st and 3rd centuries AD.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

Christianity began as a Jewish sect in the mid-1st century.

In the 19th century, Nietzsche began to write a series of attacks on the " unnatural " teachings of Christianity ( e. g. avoidance of temptations ), and continued anti-Christian attacks to the end of his life.

The postmillennial position is that the millennium began at the inauguration of Christ's kingdom reign when he ascended to his heavenly throne and happens, not as a result of the coming of Christ, but as the global population converts to Christianity as a result of evangelization.

In the 2nd century, Christianity began to spread to the rural areas, and scriptures were translated into the local language, namely Coptic.

Shortly thereafter, Æthelberht was converted to Christianity, churches were established, and wider-scale conversion to Christianity began in the kingdom.

When Theodosius ascended to the imperial throne in 380, he began on a campaign to bring the Eastern Church back to Nicene Christianity.

In Insular Gospel Books ( copies of the Gospels produced in Ireland and Britain under Celtic Christianity ), the first verse of Matthew's genealogy of Christ was often treated in a decorative manner, as it began not only a new book of the Bible, but was the first verse in the Gospels.

North converted to Christianity in high school and began frequenting right-wing bookstores in the Los Angeles area during his college years.

Although Géza probably never became a convinced Christian, during his rule Christianity began to spread among the Magyars.

He began the process of replacing Christianity with a new moral code that rejected humanitarianism and challenged the Christian concept of marriage.

Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England began around 600 AD, influenced by Celtic Christianity from the northwest and by the Roman Catholic Church from the southeast.

It began among the Greeks and became the major philosophy of the Roman Empire before declining with the rise of Christianity in the 3rd century.

After adoption of Christianity as the only permissible Roman state religion under Theodosius I, Christian art began to change not only in quality and sophistication, but also in nature.

Hulsius tried to convert Jacob to Christianity which began a lifelong correspondence between the two.

According to Mormons, a Great Apostasy began in Christianity not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ ,.

Some notable differences with mainstream Christianity include: A belief that Jesus began his atonement in the garden of Gethsemane and continued it to his crucifixion, rather than the orthodox belief that the crucifixion alone was the physical atonement ; and an afterlife with three degrees of glory, with hell ( often called spirit prison ) being a temporary repository for the wicked between death and the resurrection.

Christianity also began to enter the area during this period.

Late in the century Christianity became the official state religion, and the empire's old pagan culture began to disappear.

Also during this period Christianity first began to be practised in Palermo.

From the 19th century missionaries began settling in New Zealand and attempting to convert Māori to Christianity and control the considerably lawless European visitors.

The name of the satrapy was changed to Asuristan ( Assyria ) in the Sassanid period, which began in 226 AD, and by this time Eastern Rite Christianity ( which emerged in the 1st century AD ) had become the dominant religion among the native populace, who had never adopted the Zoroastrian or Hellenic religions of their rulers.

Proudhon, during the course of his work, spent hours every day reading this Christian literature and ultimately began to question many of his long held religious beliefs, ultimately leading him to reject Christianity altogether.

" By the time of Christianity, muthos had started to take on the connotations of " fable, fiction, lie ".

Science 299: 1523-1524 ( concluding that evolutionary biology is not a religion in any sense but noting that several evolutionary biologists, such as Edward O. Wilson, in their roles as citizens concerned about getting the public to deal with reality, have made statements like " evolution is a myth that is now ready to take over Christianity ").

Ephrem's works witness to an early form of Christianity in which western ideas take little part.

In Christianity, the term historicism refers to the confessional Protestant form of prophetical interpretation which holds that the fulfillment of biblical prophecy has taken place throughout history and continues to take place today ; as opposed to other methods which limit the time-frame of prophecy-fulfillment to the past or to the future.

One General Studies course is focused on Christian faith, as every student is required to take an Understandings of Christianity course.

Chain letters take religious perspectives especially relating to Christianity and Islam.

Christianity was on the whole slow to take hold in Caria.

Christianity began to take root among the Mesopotamians in the 1st century AD, and over the next 300 years the native religion largely died out.

Christianity began to take hold in the 1st Century AD and the independent Neo Assyrian states of Adiabene, Osroene and Hatra as well as the Syriac kingdom of Palmyra, were largely ruled by converts to Christianity and Judaism ( Gnostic sects such as Sabianism the still extant Mandeanism also became popular ), though native religions still existed among the populace, gods such as Ashur and Sin were still worshipped at least until the 4th century AD.

In the view of Protestants, these are new doctrines and they take Roman Catholicism further from the Protestant understanding of Biblical Christianity, even though Catholics provide the Bibilical citations supporting their views.

Colmán was allowed to take some relics of Aidan, who had been central in establishing Christianity of the Ionan tradition in Northumbria, with him back to Iona.

After the discussion the Frankists were requested to demonstrate in practice their adherence to Christianity ; Jacob Frank, who had then arrived in Lwów, encouraged his followers to take the decisive step.

Only a minority take an aggressive attitude towards those who speak against Christianity, " preaching full-on fire and brimstone and Old Testament style God's wrath back at extreme satanists ".

Starting in the late 19th century and early 20th century, some began to take on the view that genuine Christianity had much in common with a Leftist perspective.

This concept of " orthodoxy " began to take on particular significance during the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I, the first to actively promote Christianity.

Traditionally, Buddhists as a group take no particular view on Jesus, and Buddhism and Christianity have but a minor intersection.

God the Father is a title given to God in modern monotheist religions, such as Christianity, Judaism and Bahá ' í, in part because he is viewed as having an active interest in human affairs, in the way that a father would take an interest in his children who are dependent on him.

In modern monotheist religious traditions with a large following, such as Christianity, Judaism and Bahá ' í, God is addressed as the father, in part because of his active interest in human affairs, in the way that a father would take an interest in his children who are dependent on him and as a father, he will respond to humanity, his children, acting in their best interests.

A major reason for this failure was Russia's success in convincing the Ossetes to take their side in the conflict, who followed the same religion ( Orthodox Christianity ) as them.

Referencing Ergun and Emir Caner's book Unveiling Islam, Vines said that " Allah is not Jehovah … Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people ," and that " Christianity was founded by the virgin-born Jesus Christ " while " Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, and his last one was a 9-year-old girl.

Emerging church practitioners are happy to take elements of worship from a wide variety of historic traditions, including traditions of the Catholic Church, the Anglican churches, the Orthodox churches, and Celtic Christianity.

They cover a wide range of topics, from apologetic questions that concern common Christianity to questions of ecclesiastical administration, in which only Presbyterians have been supposed to take interest.

It was suggested that a part of the Persians of Eastern South Caucasus had adopted Armenian Christianity, but this did not take into consideration the fact that those citizens identify themselves as Armenians.