i need to know where Christianity started and i need a map of where it started?
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Modern day Israel and the surrounding area.\n\nThere are many scholarly debates on the specific locations of some long-lost cities referenced in the Jesus mythologies, such as Golgoth, but certain places, such as the city of Jerusalem, remain right where they've always been.
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Christianity.  I go to a CRC (Community Christian Reformed) church in a little town in Ontario, Can.
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Wow, that is a huge topic.  I suppose you could find some general things, but each region probably has its own unique background.  Try doing a websearch on a certain region or tribe and "history or religion"
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At least 2000 years. Christianity is not yet civilized in that length of time.
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Well, what a special story. You set Christianity back at least 50  years.  I can picture the Christians rolling their eyes back now. LMAO.
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There was a good PBS Special about question 2. Here is the website with articles on the rise of Christianity.\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/why/
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Christianity of 200 years ago was propagated by preaching, not by the sword. Christians don't cut your head off if you refuse to become Christian.
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Here's a ton I found earlier, quite randomly: \nhttp://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_christian.html\n\nIt's ironic you ask! :)
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The first nation who adopted the Christianity was Armenia in 301 AD. It was Grigor inlightener who made the King Trdat to accept it as a State Religion.
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Any history book.  The people who founded this country were Protestants and the reason they left their country was because of religious persecution (among other things), so when they wrote home and said it was great here, more Protestants hopped a ship to head out this way.  There was already a very large base of Protestants before any other immigrants began to arrive and as they say, "when in Rome..."
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have a look at http://www.geocities.com/bandu_5/project2C.html and http://www.heritage.org/Research/Religion/HL387.cfm
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I have done searches on the internet for various topics like this and others.  All you have to do is type "origins of -----".  You can type in origins of any holiday, or even religious customs, etc.  You can even type in the trinity, the cross, etc.  There is a lot of good information to be found by doing this, but read a lot of different versions.
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The first Christians was Messianic Jews, a very small jewish cult.  it wasn't until several decades later that the messianic jews started to call themselves Christian.\nMessianic Jews still exist today and they worship Christ but follow the old Jewish ways.  Christians don't follow the old jewish ways!
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I would recommend going to your local public library. Or if there are any good colleges or universities nearby, see if you can get permission to check out books. I know my college library is reciprocal with our public, so yours might be too. Are you looking for historical or theological analysis? But that's a moot question, since in order to understand the theology, you need to understand the historical background and vice versa. One book that I can recommend to a beginner is Bart Ehrman's _The_New_Testament,_A_Hictorical_Introduction. It contains analysis of the gospels and describes their differences and similarities. It's quite good and readily accessible to the non specialist reader. Assuming you can find it, that is. It's on Amazon, but I don't know if a public library would have it. A university probably would.
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Christianity is a religion.  What you listed are denominations within "Christianity".
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Christianity began around the year 50 AD, Islam began around the year 600 AD.  Mohammad (peace be upon him) was born around 570 AD.
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It began with the Apostles.  Until the 16th century, it was all of Christianity.  Orthodoxy isn't really a different Church, it is a schism within the Church.  It is the Church that still sings the services left to us by James, Peter and Mark.  It is the Church that selected which books would go into the New Testament.  It is the Church that first described the Trinity.  It exists because it has existed since Pentecost.  Protestantism is very new, most of its ideas are completely contradictory to the views of the early Church.  Most people on this board should read the early writers so that they have a context to place the bible in.\n\nIt exists because, when Judas died, the Apostles replaced him with Mathias, the first bishop and successor to an apostle.  Each bishop is a direct successor to someone personally chosen by Jesus.  Their role is to proclaim the word, as it was left by Jesus and proclaimed by the Apostles.  They serve the same role, the Twelve held, with one exception, they cannot create doctrine not taught in early Christianity.  Some people believe Catholicism was invented at some point after Pentecost, but that is to completely ignore the historical documents.  It ignores all of the martyrs, it ignores all of the correspondence among the first churches.  It is trying to reinvent history to justify separation.\n\nIt is as it was, it doesn't get to vote to see if you can have gay marriage, it doesn't get to vote to see if women can be clergy, it doesn't get to vote to see if Jesus is God, it doesn't get to vote on its beliefs.  It only votes to determine the best understanding of the early beliefs.  "What do we believe was revealed in the early Church?," is the only criterion.\n\nProtestantism is a protest of the corruption of the 16th century that spiraled out of control.  It went from a valid protest to a process invented in the minds of the various founders of the various Protestant groups.  Most doctrines of Protestantism cannot be found before the 16th century, or if they are found, are often tempered by other teachings so they are not so extreme.\n\nWhich of the 46,000 Protestant denominations is the correct one, or are the Catholic or Orthodox correct who still sing the first century services and keep the first century documents and who proclaim the entire bible in its service so that Christians will hear all of the bible, not just the parts a preacher wants to talk about.\n\nIt has been since Jesus left us and the Spirit came.