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Documentary
Bart D. Ehrman · 2018
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What this book knows
Christianity conquered Rome not by imperial decree but through exclusive salvation claims, miracle-working, and relentless conversion pressure that paganism never imagined necessary.
mortality
Anyone who did not become a believer in Christ was doomed. None of the pagan adherents thought people had to turn to the gods because the world was soon to end.
GCTC-RC-068Today 2.5 billion Christians worship Jesus; one out of three people on the planet believe he is the way to have eternal life.
GCTC-RC-010obedience-and-authority
Christianity wanted to supersede all other religions. Most of the others didn't even know there was a struggle for dominance. When they did find out, it was virtually too late.
GCTC-RC-009Suffering came at the hands of former friends and neighbors who did not appreciate that Christians had abandoned their pagan ways and customs.
GCTC-RC-084faith-and-doubt
Christians regularly refuse to recant, to the real consternation of governors who try desperately to get recalcitrant Christians to return to pagan ways.
GCTC-RC-089Pagan religions focused on cultic acts: give the gods what they want so they will give humans what they want — belief and ethics were not the point.
GCTC-RC-016Illuminates
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