There were several on the Council who tried to live like Christians.

Catholics who were truly Christians longed for the simple penance of days gone by.

The first Greek Christians to comment extensively on Aristotle were John Philoponus, Elias, and David in the sixth century, and Stephen of Alexandria in the early seventh century.

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

This claim presupposes that early Christians were suspicious of Rome or feared Roman authority as a threat to their faith.

Other scholars have even said that Luke wrote this apology in order to support Christians who were becoming allies with local Roman officials.

Christians more often converted to Islam than Jews although there were converted Jews among the new followers of Islam.

He issued a decree by which the Christians were forbidden to seek martyrdom, and he had a Christian synod held to forbid martyrdom.

Those powerful families were supported by Iberians who were openly or secretly Christians and had acted with the rebels.

Both were Hebrew Christians with sufficient intellectual authority.

Some argue that the view of Arianism that exists to this day among most Christians would not have existed were it not for Athanasius.

The Muslims and Christians were organized into separate communities, each having its own leader ; five leaders represented the village in the mid-16th century, three of whom were Muslims.

Antioch, the third-most important city of the Roman Empire, then the capital city of Syria province, today Antakya, Turkey, was where Christians were first called thus.

BJU has taken the position that orthodox Christians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries ( including fundamentalists ) agreed that while the KJV was a substantially accurate translation, only the original manuscripts of the Bible written in Hebrew and Greek were infallible and inerrant.

There were not, in antiquity, as there are today, single-volume collections of all of Sacred Scripture which most Christians have in codex form in their homes and places of worship.

By the mid 1970s, born again Christians were increasingly referred to in the mainstream media as part of the born again movement.

A large number of Old Testament passages were regarded as messianic by the Jews, many more than are commonly considered messianic by Christians, and various groups of Jews assigned varying degrees of significance to them.

The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the " mortal bodies " of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the " children of God " and were therefore no longer " in the flesh ".

However Batutta reported that Arabs and Christians were safe, as their flesh was " unripe " and would cause the eater to fall ill.

The first Christians were, like Jesus, Israelites resident in Roman Israel who worshiped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem and weekly in local synagogues.

This may indicate that Rabbinic or gnostic mythology was popular among the early Christians to whom the epistles were written and that the epistles ' author was attempting to resist that mythology.

The first Christians in Egypt were common people who spoke Egyptian Coptic.

After Constantius ' death in 361, his successor Julian the Apostate, a devotee of Rome's pagan gods, declared that he would no longer attempt to favor one church faction over another, and allowed all exiled bishops to return ; this had the objective of further increasing dissension among Christians.

Claudius died around the year AD 54, and his successor, Emperor Nero, allowed the Jews back into Rome, but then, after the Great Fire of Rome of 64, persecuted the Christians.

While the local Germanic tribes were allowed to preserve their laws, they were pressured into becoming Christians.

Much of the population, swollen with refugees fleeing Saladin's conquest of the surrounding territory, was allowed to flee to Tyre, Tripoli, or Egypt ( whence they were sent back to Europe ), but those who could not pay for their freedom were sold into slavery, and those who could were often robbed by Christians and Muslims alike on their way into exile.

According to Ahmad ibn Hanbal, these verses were followed to the letter at the times of Muhammad, when Jews and Christians, considered monotheists, were still allowed to the Masjid al-Haram.

In turn, the higher educational levels of the Christians allowed them to play a large role in the economy.

The bulk of the resistance probably stemmed from varying doctrines and practices between east and west ; for example, Roman deacons were prohibited from living with their wives after ordination, Roman priests were prohibited from having married twice prior to ordination, and Roman Christians were prohibited from fasting on the Saturdays of Great Lent and allowed to consume animal blood.

Since then, only members of non-Muslim minorities such as Hindus, Christians and Zoroastrians are allowed to apply for permits for alcohol.

During the Islamic administration, Christians and Jews were allowed to retain their religions by paying a tax ( jizya ).

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.

Severus allowed the enforcement of policies already long-established, which meant that Roman authorities did not intentionally seek out Christians, but when people were accused of being Christians they would be forced to either curse Jesus and make an offering to Roman gods, or be executed.

He penned fiercely anti-Jewish polemics, perhaps connected with his mission to the Khazar Khaganate, a state located near the Sea of Azov ruled by a Jewish king who allowed Jews, Muslims, and Christians to live peaceably side by side.

The Act allowed freedom of worship for all trinitarian Christians in Maryland, but sentenced to death anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus.

The Tatars were allowed to intermarry with Christians, a thing uncommon in Europe at the time.

Lewis D. Eigen and others have, however, observed that the conditions were aimed by the Turkish secular state at Muslim radicals, who, they believe, would preach hate and terror if allowed to control their own religious seminaries ; the Christians were caught in the " crossfire.

Freedom of religious belief was allowed " insofar as it does not interfere with the duties of subjects " ( all Japanese were required to acknowledge the Emperor's divinity, and those, such as Christians, who refused to do so out of religious conviction were accused of lèse-majesté ).

Zeno sent Genseric a high-ranking officer as ambassador, Severus, who succeeded in stipulating an " eternal " peace between the Vandals and the Eastern Roman Empire, a peace which allowed the Romans to pay ransoms for the prisoners in Vandal hands and which ended the Vandal persecution of Orthodox Christians in the Vandal territory.

" found a town without a church, here unbelievers could bring up their children without religious training ," and where Christians were not allowed.

Afterwards, all converted Jews and their descendants would be referred to as " New Christians ", and they were given a grace period of thirty years in which no inquiries into their faith would be allowed ; this was later extended to end in 1534 .< Ref > Arthur Benveniste.

Conversion of Christians to Judaism is outlawed, congregations for religious services are curtailed, but Jews are also allowed to enter Jerusalem on the anniversary of the Temple's destruction.

He allowed the Jews to engage in trade and commerce but included strict rules on their association with Christians.

The full reason for this step commonly attributed to his disappointment at the sultan's treatment of Christians, though Mehmed seems to have kept the fairly tolerant conditions he had allowed to them ; various writers hint darkly at other motives ( see Michalcescu, op.

Hyder's army also included Catholic soldiers, and he allowed Christians to build a church at Seringapatam, where French generals used to offer prayers and priests used to visit.